Japanese breakfast?

[sweetpotater]

A search turned up empty threads. Is this just a hopeless cause, or can I find a Japanese breakfast in Seattle? Not that hard to make myself, I suppose, but I don't like American breakfasts and sometimes need to go out for breakfast...

[grangie angie]

I am curious too...what exactly is a Japanese breakfast?

[sweetpotater]

A piece of fish, miso soup, pickles, rice, tamago...

[terrier]

natto...

[RandyB]

A raw egg to break over very hot rice, which cooks the egg.

[Teknotic]

Are you looking for a place that will serve you last night's leftovers with a bowl of rice, yogurt with jelly and maybe a little piece of fish? That's what I was always served for breakfast in Japan.

[GreenYoshi]

Are you talking about ryokan style food?
I doubt anyone does that.

If you're talking about breads and little rolls, Fuji bakery does a lot of good stuff.

[Leper]

GreenYoshi, Ironically the Sheridan used to offer a ryokan breakfast for Japanese tourists. Alas, they have discontinued the menu offering.

[GreenYoshi]

Just to be clear, I feel like no one actually eats that in Japan (or really even wants to outside of a ryokan, as part of a the experience). Maybe old people still have miso soup for breakfast, but even that's a fading thing.

Everyone I know in Japan eats Japanese style bread toast (which is BOMB by the way) or little pastries and coffee.

[Joishii]

That's odd, because i DID eat that in Japan.

[GreenYoshi]

as a tourist.

[Joishii]

i guess i missed that part. It was at a ryokan, in Nikko. I pretty just ate raw egg or natto on rice otherwise, because i was stuck in my brother's apartment on the other days.

i thought you were saying nobody eats those anymore, period. I was like, hang on! That was my favorite part of the ryokan!

[DiggyK]

I know plenty of Japanese people in Japan that still enjoy okayu and pickles for breakfast.

[nwhophead]

What do you consider "Japanese breakfast"? You can get the Hawaiian bastardized version of it at Kauai Family restaurant. Fried rice, eggs, saimin, maybe ahi poke if they have it.