Japanese Grill Observation

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Finding Sushi at the Osaka Grill restaurant was not a surprise because it is one of them main Japanese cultural diets. It was introduced to the Western world by some of the Japanese who come to the North America as immigrants (Bestor, 2005). As of now, Sushi can be found not only in Japanese restaurants here in the U.S.A but also in other restaurants. The Sushi offered at the Osaka Grill is accompanied by some lemon sliced fruit, avocado and other salads.

Observation 2:
The setting of table and chairs at the Osaka Grill is arranged in a way that does not accommodate customers to stay longer. This is the same setting found in most of McDonald’s fast food restaurants found here in the U.S (Yan, 2005). Due to large number of customer who come
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In regard to what is mentioned by Torres-Lima and Burns in their article, ‘Regional
Culture and Urban Agriculturalists of Mexico City’, regional culture is based on organizational patterns with in multigenerational families (2002). Japanese food has also been evolving as more people continue to leave rural areas to urban areas. In addition, as Japanese people migrate to other parts of the world such as the U.S.A, there culture food is manipulated to in order to meet local interests. However, it still carries a Japanese identity even though it might be called English names.

Observation 4:
Even though the Osaka Grill restaurant claims that all the recipes offered are of Japanese culture, there are some crops which are also found in other cultural diets. These include carrots, broccoli, avocado, rice, cabbages, onions, to mention but a few. However, some of crops such as the broccoli and carrot have been genetically modified in order to meet the modern society diet (Warinner, 2013). Such crops are not only found in the Japanese culture but also in other culture. We also have them in my Rwandan traditional diet. Nonetheless, the preparation and combination of the above crops with other ingredients is what makes them unique to the Japanese