Top 10 Japanese Winter Food

10. Kani Ryouri (crab dishes)

Kani Ryouri (crab dishes) is one of the Japanese luxury dishes especially during winter. The popular kani ryouri in Japan are kanimeshi (boiled crab meat sprinkled over a bowl of steamed rice), and kaninabe or kanijiru (cooked crab meat in soup). The kani from Hokkaido, northern Japan, is well known as big, fresh, tasty kani, and served at many restaurants, at vendors at food festivals, and even at stations as a kani bento box (crab lunch box) in Japan.