
Originally Posted by
jonvistal
actually base on the culinary principle, fussions are always the good way to discover new foods or new set-up. now on the case of japanese and chinese, both vlad and blurem were right. there's alot of popular japanese foods actually came from chinese, let's say for example, the gyoza is from chinese, but chinese has a different preparation instead of the usual jap's yaki gyoza or pan-grilled gyoza the chinese prepare it on steaming... well that kinda different, right? and ramen yes it originated from china and perfected in japan this was during the years while a place in japan called shinshu was the masters for noodle making, well let's say they are still the masters especially on cha-soba or the green tea noodle. and basically japanese are people who came from china, so there's no wonder why there are some jap foods which are similar or somewhat kinda confusing to be chinese foods... and one more thing there's even some of french and russian foods that was catered to japan.