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On September 5, a Japan-China cultural exchange event called “China Festival 2026” kicked off at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward. About 100 stalls offering close-to-authentic “real Chinese” (gachi-chuka) food and panda merchandise are set up, running through September 6. At the opening ceremony, executive committee chairman and former Japanese ambassador to China Yuji Miyamoto, along with Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao, gave remarks. On 5channel threads, discussion heated up over food-culture questions like whether dishes such as tenshinhan (crab omelet rice) and chuka-don actually exist in China, plus debates comparing Chinese cuisine to Japanese cuisine — alongside some political posts about Japan-China relations.
An event promoting Japan-China cultural exchange, “China Festival 2026,” began on the 5th at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward. About 100 stalls — including close-to-authentic “real Chinese” food and panda-themed merchandise — drew crowds of families. The event runs through the 6th.
At the opening ceremony, executive committee chairman and former Japanese ambassador to China Yuji Miyamoto said he hoped the event “can be a starting point for building the foundation of Japan-China relations.” Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao said in a video message that he hoped visitors would “get a feel for China’s development in this new era.”
Full article at the source. Last updated: Sat, Sep 5, 4:47 PM
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
That's gotta be a lie, right?
For tenshinhan, you put a crab omelet on top of a bowl of rice.
For chuka-don, you put babaocai (mixed stir-fried veggies) on top.
No idea how you'd actually order that at a real Chinese restaurant though.
They do have tenshinhan in Tianjin, actually.
"Tenshinhan," the Japanese Chinese-food staple that doesn't exist in China — we went looking for it on the ground…
https://www.nishinippon.co.jp/item/653637/
The "Amatsu-don" corner (a joke misreading the kanji for "Tenshin" as "Amatsu")
They've also got a Thai Festival, an India Festival, all sorts of stuff — it's fun.
People who don't know that
are getting worked up over just seeing this one thing. Pretty dumb.
Easy for you to say when you're Chinese, though.
Chinese people are what's called "toraijin" (ancient migrants from the continent).
Japanese people are a mix of Jomon people (Japan's prehistoric hunter-gatherers) and those migrants.
Chinese food doesn't have much variety.
It's basically all oil.
Chinese food is completely different depending on the region.
The "standard" Chinese food you get in Japan is just a tiny sliver of it.
So what exactly does Japan serve, then?
What do you mean by that?
Cold crab ramen.
Chinese food made by Chinese people is the real deal.
The Chinese-style food Japanese people make is really just Japanese food in disguise.
Background and key points of this discussion
The China Festival is an annual event held at Yoyogi Park, run under the same kind of framework as other national cultural events like the Thai Festival and India Festival mentioned in post #9. The fact that tenshinhan and chuka-don didn’t originate in China but were developed independently in Japan isn’t a new claim — it’s been reported before, as shown by the article linked in post #76. Within the thread, genuine curiosity about this kind of food-culture trivia mixed with debate over which cuisine is superior, Chinese food or Japanese food, along with some antagonistic posts about Japan-China relations. Many of the latter included blanket insults toward entire nationalities or claims not grounded in fact; this article focuses mainly on excerpts related to food culture.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Newsplus) thread “China Festival Held in Tokyo’s Shibuya — “Real Chinese” Food and More, Running Through the 6th.”
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