Cultural Experience. What experience you have chosen?

Cultural Experience
Student's Name
Institutional Affiliation
Course Name and Number
Lecturer's Name
Assignment Due Date
Cultural Experience
What experience you have chosen
The experience I have chosen is eating Japanese cuisine. Japanese cuisine consists of Japan's traditional and regional foods, which have developed with economic, political, and social changes. Japanese cuisine is primarily based on rice with miso soup and other dishes. Side dishes combine pickled vegetables, fish, and vegetables cooked in broth. Historically influenced by Chinese cuisine, Japanese cuisine has gained influence from Western cuisines in the modern era (Nara, 2020). Dishes inspired by foreign foods, particularly Chinese food such as ramen and foods like curry, spaghetti, and hamburgers, have been adopted with various Japanese tastes and ingredients. When it comes to the style of eating, the Japanese hardly eat with the traditional western utensils like knife, spoon, and fork; it is a commonplace for the residents to use chopsticks (Assmann, 2015). Eating with chopsticks is the hardest thing you will have to learn when you visit Japan. However, as long as you live among the Japanese, you become familiar with their culture, and their eating style no longer becomes hard to learn.
Why you have chosen it
I have chosen eating Japanese cuisine because it is unique and does not combine features of other cuisines. It has beautifully laid out dishes such as sushi, sashimi, ramens, udon, and rice dishes (Nara, 2020). Besides, Japanese cuisine is naturally rich in nutrients like calcium, fiber, magnesium, iron, magnesium, and vitamins A, C, and E (Petre, 2019). Vegetables dominate the diet and are often cooked in dashi, a dried fish, and sea vegetable-based stock. The diet also offers sufficient green tea and seaweed, which are significant sources of antioxidants. Antioxidants are a vital compound that protects the body against cell damage and diseases (Petre, 2019). More importantly, the many fish and seaweed-based dishes included in the Japanese diet provide long-chain omega-3 fats, which promote eye, brain, and heart health (Petre, 2019).
Another reason for choosing Japanese is because it gains influence from foreign countries. Within any town in Japan, you can find restaurants offering a variety of mixed food choices. You can also find Japanese eat meals with various foreign influences. For breakfast, the Japanese nationals are comfortable with ham and eggs, coffee, buttered toast, and salad, as they are with traditional breakfast fare, made up of miso soup, rice, grilled fish, and tomato sauce. Lunch could be a plate of spaghetti served with spicy topping (originally Korean), tomato sauce (originally Italian), or a steaming bowl of ramen noodles with soup (Origin...