Japanese Food Word Search

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Twenty-seven Japanese dishes make up this list: chawanmushi, nikujaga, okonomiyaki, onigiri, takoyaki, tonkatsu and natto. Free to print as a PDF, or play it online.

Tempura is Portuguese in origin. Jesuit missionaries in Nagasaki in the 1500s ate fried fish and vegetables during the Ember Days, the quarterly fasts they called quatuor tempora, and the Japanese took both the technique and a version of the word. The batter has since become something the Portuguese would not recognize.

Okonomiyaki says what it is: okonomi means what you like and yaki means grilled, so the dish is a batter pancake with whatever you want in it, cooked on a hotplate, and the Osaka and Hiroshima versions are argued over accordingly. Natto is at the other end of the welcome scale. Soybeans fermented with a bacterium that turns them stringy and pungent, it is a breakfast staple in eastern Japan and something many people in the west of the country will not touch.

Take it to a Japanese class on paper, or play online for a new grid each time.

Free Japanese Food Word Search Online Game

Play the Japanese Food word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.

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Japanese Food Word Search Printable Puzzles

Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Japanese Food word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.

Puzzle Vocabulary Words

Below you can see all possible words that the topic Japanese Food has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.

• Chawanmushi
• Curry Rice
• Donburi
• Edamame
• Gyoza
• Kashipan
• Mentaiko
• Miso Soup
• Natto
• Nikujaga
• Oden
• Okonomiyaki
• Onigiri
• Ramen
• Sashimi
• Sukiyaki
• Sushi
• Takoyaki
• Tamagoyaki
• Tempura
• Tofu
• Tonkatsu
• Udon
• Unagi
• Wagashi
• Yakisoba
• Yakitori