Japanese Restaurants in Colombo

Colombo is the largest city in Sri Lanka, and it is the main financial, commercial and industrial center of the country and thus it offers some of the best places to savor the delicacies that the tiny island of Sri Lanka has to offer. Amidst other foreign cuisines, Japanese cuisines have curved a distinct niche for itself and the popularity of the Japanese food in Colombo gets best reflected through the long queue in the crowded Japanese restaurants.

Japanese cuisines are famous for its superb quality and it is also renowned for its emphasis on seasonality of food, quality of ingredients and presentation. Japanese cuisine is based on the concept of combining a plain carbohydrate staple food (shushoku), typically rice or noodles, with a soup and okazu - dishes made from fish, meat, vegetable, tofu and such others, to add flavor to the staple food. These are typically flavored with dashi, miso, and soy sauce, and traditionally tend to be low in fat and high in salt. A standard Japanese meal generally consists of several different okazu accompanying by a bowl of cooked white Japanese rice (gohan), a bowl of soup and some tsukemono (pickles). .Noodles, originating from China, has become an integral l part of Japanese cuisine and it is sometimes used as an alternative to a rice-based meal. Soba (thin, grayish-brown noodles containing buckwheat flour) and udon (thick wheat noodles) are the main traditional noodles and are served hot or cold with soy-dashi flavorings. Chinese-style wheat noodles served in a meat stock broth known as ramen have become extremely popular over the last century.

Colombo has a host of Japanese restaurants and some of them are really popular among the residents and visitors of the city. Japanese Restaurants in Colombo, offers a variety of Japanese food and the ambiance in these restaurants are very casual and refreshing.