{"id":56537,"date":"2023-07-09T22:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/09\/bread-easier-japan-rice-staple-food"},"modified":"2023-07-09T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T13:00:46","slug":"bread-is-much-easier-how-japan-fell-out-of-love-with-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56537","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bread is much easier\u2019: how Japan fell out of love with rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional staple is losing the battle with more convenient and cheaper alternative foods <\/p>\n<p>The Dojima branch of Yoshinoya in Osaka is doing a roaring lunchtime trade. As soon as one diner vacates their counter seat, another takes their place, while staff take just seconds to assemble the next order of the restaurant\u2019s trademark dish: <em>gy\u016bdon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Observer<\/em> has joined the rush, ordering a set lunch of seasoned beef and onion on rice, and side dishes of pickled cabbage and miso soup \u2013 all for a extremely affordable \u00a5632 (\u00a33.46).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/09\/bread-easier-japan-rice-staple-food\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional staple is losing the battle with more convenient and cheaper alternative foods The Dojima branch of Yoshinoya in Osaka is doing a roaring lunchtime trade. As soon as one diner vacates their counter seat, another takes their place, while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,311,88,78,2257,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food","category-japan","category-life-and-style","category-rice","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56538,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56537\/revisions\/56538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}