EP47｜Japanese Supermarket Tour 🇯🇵 Learn Food Vocabulary & Shopping Culture

Today we’re taking a tour through a Japanese supermarket!

Learn useful Japanese vocabulary for vegetables, meat, bread, milk, and more while discovering some fun cultural differences you’ll notice when shopping in Japan.

In this episode, you’ll learn words like:

• やさい (vegetables)
• トマト (tomato)
• きゅうり (cucumber)
• キャベツ (cabbage)
• にんじん (carrot)
• たまねぎ (onion)
• じゃがいも (potato)
• とりにく (chicken)
• ぶたにく (pork)
• ぎゅうにく (beef)
• たまご (eggs)
• ぎゅうにゅう (milk)
• パン (bread)

We’ll also talk about:

• Seasonal food in Japan (旬)
• Japanese cherries vs. American cherries
• Why Japanese meat is usually sliced thin
• What あいびきにく means
• Bread surprises like あんこ and カレーパン
• Organic, free-range, and cage-free products in Japan

Next episode, we’ll practice using all of these words in Japanese!