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Data collected from ABRESI (Brazilian Association of Food, Hospitality and Tourism) in 2013 in São Paulo showed that there were 500–600 Japanese restaurants, producing 400,000 sushi meals per day. Thus, Ishige-san says that Brazil was one of the first foreign countries where Japanese cuisine became popular.
The Liberdade Street Fair (Portuguese: Feira de Arte e Artesanato da Liberdade or Feirinha da Liberdade) is an art and handicraft fair in the Liberdade district of São Paulo. This popular open air market began in 1975 [ 1 ] and operates every Saturday and Sunday from 9 am to 6 pm near the Liberdade Metro station .
Dango: a Japanese dumpling and sweet made from mochiko (rice flour),[1] [citation not found] related to mochi. Hanabiramochi: a Japanese sweet (wagashi), usually eaten at the beginning of the year. Higashi: a type of wagashi, which is dry and contains very little moisture, and thus keeps relatively longer than other kinds of wagashi.
The city has one Japanese international day school, the Escola Japonesa de São Paulo ("São Paulo Japanese School"), located in Vila Prel , Capão Redondo, Subprefecture of Campo Limpo. [7] The school opened on August 14, 1967. [8] As of 2003, around 33% of the Japanese supplementary schools in southern Brazil are in the city of São Paulo.
Sushi Saito – a three Michelin star Japanese cuisine restaurant in Minato, Tokyo, primarily known for serving sushi; Yoshinoya – a Japanese fast food restaurant chain, it is the largest chain of gyūdon (beef bowl) restaurants; Tofuya Ukai - a tofu restaurant that serve dishes in "refined kaiseki stye" [8]
According to a publication by the Japanese-Brazilian Studies Center in 1988, there were 1,167,000 Japanese descendants in Brazil that year, of whom 290,000, or 24.8%, lived in the city of São Paulo, 156,000 (13.3%) in the Greater São Paulo area, and 382,000 (32.7%) in the rest of the state of São Paulo. Thus, 70.8% of the Japanese Brazilian ...
Japanese food popularity also has penetrated street food culture, as modest Warjep or Warung Jepang (Japanese food stall) offer Japanese food such as tempura, okonomiyaki and takoyaki, at moderately low prices. [99] Today, okonomiyaki and takoyaki are popular street fare in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities.
Liberdade is known as a Japantown, although the Japanese presence did not occur throughout the neighborhood, but in specific streets. Japanese immigrants started settling in the region in 1912, coming from the interior of São Paulo, as many did not adapt to working on coffee farms and started looking for better opportunities in the capital.