Soba, buckwheat, noodles in bouillon with vegetables and meat.

Ramen noodles with a combination of five ingredients - meat, egg and vegetables.

Gomoku-zushi is Japanese for "five item sushi" a type of sushi consisting of a topping of mixed raw fish scattered, usually rather carefully, across sushi rice, decorated with red (denbu, or white fish or shrimp meat, cooked, shredded and coloured red) and yellow (strips of omelette) additions.

Sushi. Mixed raw fish and vegetables on rice.

Guar gum is made from the ground endosperm of guar beans and is used as a thickener and stabiliser in the food industry. It has the E-number E412.

The most prized green leaf tea of Japan, made from the youngest shoots of the tea.

Fishwort. A green leafy plant with a slightly fishy smell used in China, Japan, Korea and South East Asia. The roots may also be used and the plant is also used for medicinal purposes.

Donburi, bowl of rice, with sliced beef.