Food Words: Japanese

Each month we’re going to take a look at a few food words in different languages worldwide. Let’s start with Japanese!

• breakfast – cho’shoku, asameshi
• lunch – chu’jiki
• dinner – gosan, bansan
• beer – biiru, bakushu
• coffee – ko’hi, kafe
• juice – shiru, ekiju
• milk – gyu’nyu, miruku
• tea – ocha, cha
• water – mizu, suiiki
• wine – budo’shu, kajitsushu
• dessert – deza’to
• cake – keki
• butter – nyu’raku
• sugar – sato, shuga
• salt – shio, en
• pepper – kosho, peppa
• soup – su’pu, shiru
• bread – pan
• rice – bei, gohan
• fruit – kudamono
• meat – niku, nikurui
• chicken – niwatori
• fish – sakana
• egg – tamago
• cheese – chi’zu, kanraku

Reference: www.languagelearninglibrary.org