Fried Shrimp

When I was a child, ebifurai was my favorite dish at restaurants called yoshoku-ya, which specialize in “Japanized” Western dishes. The menus at these restaurants include such adopted dishes as croquettes, beef stew, curry, fried shrimp, fried oysters, and steak. Yoshoku-ya originated at the end of the nineteenth century, when Japan opened the country to foreign trade after almost three hundred years of isolation. During this period, new ideas, science, technology, and