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Originally Posted by Polar
From the guide books I've been reading French is quite popular in Tokyo. Italian too but it won't taste the same. I'll find out for myself in a few weeks.
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By faaaaar, the absolute biggest is Chinese restaurants. They are everywhere, and they have all the typical favorites like green onion pork, sweet and sour chicken, broccoli beef, pot stickers, etc.
Every other nationality's food trails way behind in popularity, though Indian, Korean, American, and Italian can often be found. But be warned, the Italian food is very different. At our 1st prefectural meeting, very soon after I first arrived in Japan, we went to an Italian place. It looked great, nice decorations and all, and I figured I'd be safe ordering the plain old, no-frills spaghetti. Well, it was a rather dark restaurant, hard to see by the candle light, but some of the noodles seemed to be undercooked and chewy, while others were fine. And they tasted weird too... I asked someone what it was, and sure enough, tako. Yep, octopus in the basic spaghetti instead of meatballs or sausage.
Oh, and just WAIT until you see the terrible things they can do to a pizza over there... corn, tuna, seaweed, and baker's mayonnaise on a pizza? Only in Japan.
But I did have great Italian food 1 time over there, in Kobe. So it is possible to find, just not common.