rice (tako-raisu) - Invented in the 1960s. Taco meat served on a bed of rice and lettuce, often served together with tomato, cucumber, cheese and topped off with salsa Various Fugu cuisine - various dishes made from fugu, such as sashimi and nabemono (Yamaguchi Prefecture, northern Kyūshū and Osaka) Botan nabe - a wild boar nabemono dish. (Various locales, but especially the Tanzawa region in Kanagawa Prefecture and Tanba region in Kansai) Basashi - horse meat sashimi (Kumamoto area, Matsumoto area and rural Tōhoku.) See also Meibutsu - literally "famous things"; a popular concept in Japan referring to the fame of certain locales for given foods or products. References