Deep-fried pieces of pork or chicken. A Chinese dish adopted in Japan.

Woolly milk cap mushroom. A poisonous mushroom.

Dry - when applied to drink.

Japanese mustard. This is a very pungent mustard, similar to English mustard, and is made from the seeds of the black rape plant. It is used in dressings. It also is served with noodle and nabe (a variety of communal one-pot meals) dishes. Like English mustard, it is available as a powder for mixing.

Bottarga. The roe of grey mullet (US: striped mullet) or tuna, preferably the former, dried, salted and then weighted until the liquid is expelled.

Namban noodles in curry-flavoured soup with pork or beef.