Why do Japanese go to izakaya to eat fried chicken and drink beer so late at night, but there are few fat people on the street?

When I first went to study in Japan, I was surprised, too, but I understood later. I thought that two Japanese people ate in izakaya the way we did: 1 kebabs of mutton, 1 chicken gizzards, 1 tendons of meat ... and a few strings of vegetarian dishes, and the beer was drunk.

The waiter is bound to look at you strangely and ask, "Are you sure?" Some Japanese in the store will also give you a "stare". After checking out, the waiter's eyes are a little scary and complicated, watching you leave like a hungry ghost.

Actually, the Japanese don't order like this. Generally, each person orders one or two strings, each person has a bottle of beer, and the glass is very small. That's it!

For example, when two old men ate "Roasted Birds" (as it is called locally) in izakaya, they ordered two chicken skewers, two chicken skin skewers, a plate of beans, that is, edamame, a small plate (tasteless), a cold slave (mixed with tofu), and then a sake (only 18ml). Nothing else can be done. I really admire it. It won't take me half an hour to solve this problem.

What's more, when I met two white-collar workers more than once, I ordered a plate of * * * four skewers of meat, plus four side dishes (the weight is really small, so I can finish eating two bites) and four draft beers, and they sat for two or three hours!

In their view, izakaya is a place to drink, and chatting and gossiping are the main characters, and eating skewers is just a foil or a symbol.

so, I'm afraid I've digested it before I left the store, let alone gain weight.

if you are full, you have to go to Lamian Noodles's or Yoshinoya's. Of course, izakaya can also eat enough, and order a set meal (which means ending in Japanese) with tea soaked rice and rice dumplings, which can fill the stomach.

however, few guests do, and stores generally don't recommend it. I worked part-time in izakaya when I was studying abroad, and the boss said that it would be a shame for our store if any guests were full!

Because Japanese people can go to three izakaya at most in one night, it is a common social behavior. If you are full at the first restaurant, how can you get to the next two?

as for the store, why should we consider it? In fact, it is also very simple. This is the default unspoken rule of Japanese izakaya. For example, if a guest plans to eat three restaurants, but he is full at the first one, the guest will be angry and will not come next time.

In school canteens in Japan, many foreign students complain that they don't have enough to eat. Although the price is more affordable than outside, the quantity is really small (in fact, it is similar outside). Japanese tableware is generally small and exquisite, and it contains less food, such as a bowl of udon noodles, which is finished in a few mouthfuls.

For example, rice covered with meat looks like a lot. Actually, there is only half a bowl of rice, plus a circle of meat on it, plus a small dish, a bowl of soup and an egg.

There are many choices for office workers' working meals, but most people have small appetite. When I first started, I often ordered some set meals, such as the classic fried rice+jiaozi+Lamian Noodles combination. The Japanese around us generally order a single meal, such as fried pork chops, with side dishes and half a bowl of rice.

The staple food+staple food set meal and Lamian Noodles set meal are relatively abundant and delicious, but they are easy to get bored. Later, they were changed to some light delicacies such as salmon set meal, tofu set meal, tea soaked rice and so on.

1. the influence of environmental atmosphere.

I once went to McDonald's for dinner, and ordered a set meal, which included hamburgers, Chinese fries and a small coke, which was not enough for me! So I ordered another chicken roll and a pair of chicken wings.

The clerk obviously paused and asked, "Do you all eat here?"

"yes!"

Later, I walked forward with food and looked around for a week. I found that I was the only one in the shop with a plate full. When I sat down, I found the couple opposite me and ordered a set meal. This is a bit embarrassing, so I sealed the single-point food in a bag and ate it at home ... < P > So, in this environment, in order to avoid the unspeakable surprise of people around me, I will naturally eat less gradually.

2. Women are trying to lose weight.

Japanese women generally have a strong sense of losing weight and pay attention to their body shape. This is not a figment of my imagination. You can see the changes of Japanese women's physique (BMI, fat) in recent decades, and you can see at a glance that it has been falling all the way. Especially for people aged 2-29, the reduction rate is the most obvious, because they have entered the society and reached the stage of falling in love and getting married.

3. The eating habits.

The island is not rich in natural products, so Japan had a hard time in ancient times. For example, before the Meiji Restoration, most people in Japan could only eat a bowl of rice with some salted fish and miso soup.

At that time, the tax on farmers in Japan was 4%, and farmers ate more simply. Even during the Tokugawa shogunate, Japanese people could eat two meals a day. So I developed a simple diet habit, and now this exquisite diet in Japan began to appear after industrialization.

In addition to the above reasons, there is another most important factor that makes fat people rare in Japanese streets.

1. Less cooking oil.

In Japanese family recipes, the most common cooking methods are steaming, boiling, stewing and eating raw, and this kind of cooking will inevitably give less oil. Moreover, the oil in the supermarket is also very subtle. It is usually miniature, and you can see rows of oil with only 1.5 liters or 2.5 liters.

Maybe some people disagree with this statement and want to say that there are not many fried foods in Japan, such as tempura. Isn't it greasy?

yes, but we don't eat it every day. For example, our fried dough sticks are very common and we don't eat them every day.

Secondly, the quantity is small. One tempura contains only three shrimps, which are covered with flour. And fried pork chops and coke cakes are one piece in a single meal, not big. And fried chicken, half of which is shredded cabbage.

2. Reasonable diet structure.

It refers to the bento that pays attention to the collocation of meat and vegetables, pays attention to the taste of the ingredients themselves, puts less condiments, and is light but rich on the whole. This kind of bento is everywhere in supermarkets.

There are also healthy foods in convenience stores, shopping malls, etc. All foods are labeled with nutrition tables and calories, which is convenient for calculating the intake, such as vegetable salad, -calorie chicken breast, fish, -fat drinks, -sugar and -purine beer and so on. Vending machines can be seen everywhere, as well as coffee and tea with zero sugar and zero cards.

3. Pay attention to sports.

This really started at an early age. In primary school, children took part in various sports activities, such as playing football, basketball and baseball.

After work, the company will organize all kinds of clubs. Although it seems that it is necessary to join, it will appear unsociable if you don't join them often.

After retirement, some elderly people will also choose some leisure activities.

Therefore, in Japan, fitness facilities and exercise awareness are better, while natural fat people are less.

4. Compulsory health check-up: Japanese law forces companies to pay for health check-ups for their employees every year, and then doctors give advice. A colleague, whose weight exceeds the standard by 1 kg, was severely called by Japanese doctors to lose weight!

why do you have to have a compulsory health check-up?

I think it can reduce the reduction of labor force (sudden death, etc.). Besides, there are many people in their sixties who are still working in Japan, so annual testing can make people of this age still have the ability to work, which is equivalent to bringing extra benefits to society.

I have worked in Japan for more than six years and have been dealing with Japanese for more than ten years. Indeed, as the subject said, Japanese people especially like to drink after work at night, and many people drink outside from Monday to Friday. The first reason here is that most Japanese really like drinking. Although some female colleagues don't drink outside every night like male colleagues, they will drink a little by themselves before going to bed at home, so there are liquor stores everywhere in Japan. Second, many Japanese people use this as a way of socializing, and if they go home for dinner from Monday to Friday night, they will be looked down upon by their wives. Japanese people sometimes have to change places to drink at night for two or three times, which is called "second meeting" and "third meeting", so it will be held very late. To tell the truth, although the Japanese don't drink enough alcohol, most of them can drink a lot, mainly because they are good at mixing wine, and they have to drink several kinds of wine in one night. izakaya (that is, taverns) in Japan can buy wine by the glass. The Japanese drinking habit is to unify a glass of beer at first. After a glass of beer, everyone can order it at will. But the Japanese are really slim, and most people are not very fat. Some elderly people are even thinner, which makes people feel a little pitiful, and they are typically skinny. However, most of them are very healthy and generally live a long life. Basically, the incidence of diseases such as "three highs" and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is not as high as that in China. There are many reasons for this phenomenon:

The main reason is eating, and the Japanese eat very little. In fact, there are many fatty meats in Japanese cuisine, including fat sausage hot pot, which is particularly fat. The large pieces of meat added in Japanese noodles are basically half thin and half fat. But they all eat very little. It is no exaggeration to say that a domestic dish can be divided into ten parts in Japan. In izakaya, two-centimeter-long green onions are strung in a string and then roasted. Two strings are a dish. When I first arrived in Japan, I was really not used to it. Many Japanese friends invited me to drink together in the evening. The food they ordered is really flattering, and they dare not move chopsticks. According to the habit of eating vegetables in China, a dish is basically gone with chopsticks. Once a domestic leader went to Japan on business, and the Japanese invited him to eat the highest-end Huaishi cuisine. As a result, a prawn actually cooked two dishes, a fried shrimp head and a shrimp soup. The leader who used to drink Chinese food and wine didn't feel his stomach after eating Japanese food, so he immediately asked us to take him to a Chinese restaurant and had a "second meeting".

Japanese food is more expensive, so Japanese people don't order a lot of food. Their wives give them all the money for drinking, and they all plan to spend money. Basically, they just drink all the time at night and seldom eat food. In fact, it's not that Japanese people don't like eating when they eat less, mainly because the price is too expensive. Because when many Japanese people come to China to invite them to eat Chinese food, they will eat a lot, and they will say that it is delicious. Even the chicken feet and duck feet that they don't eat at all in Japan are full of praise.

Many Japanese not only eat less for dinner, but also eat less for breakfast. There is a Japanese colleague in his thirties who often eats a jelly for breakfast. When I first arrived in Japan, as a northerner who often eats and drinks, I was really not used to it. I was hungry at five o'clock every afternoon and needed to secretly add some meals in the office. Of course, I will get used to it after half a year. There is a domestic colleague who often travels between China and Japan. Every time he goes to Japan, he will lose weight for a month, and he will gain weight after returning home for half a month.

In addition to Japanese eating less, Japanese cooking oil is also very light. Japanese blended oil is basically only a little thicker than mineral water, which looks like a drink. Many viscous materials in it have been filtered out. The range hood is very easy to clean, and of course, eating it in people's stomachs will not increase the oil and water in their stomachs.

Japanese people eat very little food, but they eat a lot of varieties at a time. Even a lunch box will contain many kinds of meat and vegetables, and the ingredients in Japan are super fresh, which is different in China. Therefore, their intake of nutrition is more comprehensive, which is also a reason for their health.

Japanese wine contains less calories. Japanese people mainly drink sake and shochu, as well as red wine and other blended wines. As we all know, the degree of sake in Japan is very low, only a dozen degrees, and the degree of shochu is about 3 to 4 degrees. However, the Japanese drink it with a lot of ice or warm water, and a glass of shochu needs 9/1 of water or ice, so they consume very little calories from wine. Why can they be fat?

In fact, as far as most Japanese people are concerned, they don't have much time for sports and exercise. Basically, many people don't do physical exercise from Monday to Friday, but only exercise on weekends. Therefore, the main reason why Japanese people are not fat is eating less, which is an inspiration for some overweight people in China: long-term continuous dieting and paying attention to the diet structure are really conducive to weight loss.

because oil is serious oil and wine is serious wine. Eat fewer calories at home.

Do you think that

two Japanese people in izakaya eat like Jinan barbecue:

After eating several skewers, there are more than 2 strings. I drank eight bottles of wine

Actually:

Two big men.

holding a draft beer, the kind of 6 yen.

Free 4 side dishes, which add up to a little bigger than the palm of your hand. (update: many friends pointed out that side dishes are charged, so please note here)

Then each person has four skewers, one with chicken heart, one with chicken onion, one with mushrooms and one with bacon.

Two people are bragging with beer+talking about women+talking about gossip. You can eat this for three hours.

to tell the truth, I can't get fat, and I can't make up for the calories consumed by talking.

Because Japanese people generally don't eat much, their eating habits are basically healthy and balanced, and they seldom overeat.

If you often watch Japanese dramas, you will also find that many Japanese office workers or students buy a bread or sandwich at noon and add a box of milk as Chinese food. Even if you bring a lunch box at noon, the size of the staple rice inside is at best the size of a rice ball.

Japanese cuisine doesn't pay attention to heavy oil and heavy salt, but emphasizes the original flavor and lightness of ingredients. In addition, with less staple food intake, it is naturally difficult to gain weight!

Japanese young office workers are under great pressure!

izakaya is more about drinking, which is a place for Japanese people to connect with each other and release their pressure after work, rather than filling their stomachs. Therefore, generally, izakaya does not provide staple food such as rice, while fried chicken is just a kind of appetizer, and the weight is very small. If you order one, it is estimated that it is not as big as the original KFC chicken here. And the truth is that Japanese people generally don't like fried chicken. Their favorite snacks are grilled chicken kebabs and Guandong cooking, which are izakaya's regular snacks.

Things are too expensive, so when Japanese izakaya drinks, he actually eats very little. Can he get fat? A Japanese client of mine drove to China, and I invited him to eat casually. He ate ten abalones at a time and gained more than ten kilograms in less than a month. Why? Don't spend your own money!

I've been to izakaya, and it's over ten square meters.