How Japan Invented a Secret Cuisine

Subscribe for more videos in the future: https://bit.ly/3Jz0f2c There's a cuisine within the cuisine of Japanese food, and it contains a lot of dishes you might not associate with Japan. This time we look into "yoshoku", Japan's western-inspired cuisine and how it depicts a relatively homogenous country as one that is open to changing the features that define its culture. SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter -   / itsmatthewli   Instagram -   / randomchino   Credits: Producer - Matthew Li Production Assistant - Mana Chuabang Script Supervisor - Louis Govier Special thanks: Yusef Iqbal Yeevonne Lim Dylan Payne Brandon Goddard Kevin Thomas Timestamps: 0:00 - The restaurant that invented tonkatsu and omurice 1:46 - Japanese hamburg steak 3:35 - Sakoku 5:57 - The Meiji Restoration 7:22 - The cuisine of yoshoku 9:00 - Eating yoshoku dishes 11:55 - The legacy of yoshoku