Traditional Japanese Meal with Mountain Vegetables (Sansai Ryori - 山菜) in Takayama, Japan

Join us for a traditional Japanese meal as we sample various kinds of mountain vegetables (known as Sansai Ryori - 山菜) at a restaurant in Takayama, Japan. For the longest time, we had both really wanted to sample Japanese food in a restaurant with traditional decor and seating arrangements. On a wet and rainy day in Takayama, it was the perfect opportunity to enjoy a nice leisurely meal sampling a type of Japanese cuisine we've never had before.
We ended up ordering two kinds of Sansai Ryori platters which featured compartmentalized dishes of various kinds of pickled and seasoned mountain vegetables. For instance, we had wild mushrooms, tofu, tofu skin, pickles, radishes, water chestnuts, bamboo, roots and shoots. Each platter also came with a bowl of rice and a cup of green tea. The only difference between the platters was that Sam's came with fish and meat.
The presentation of the meal was incredible with such attention to detail to all of the arrangements of food. We also enjoyed sitting down at a traditional table in a communal setting. If you're thinking of enjoying a traditional Japanese meal, in the style of vegetarian Buddhist food, we couldn't recommend trying Sansai Ryori more highly when visiting Takayama, Japan.

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Traditional Japanese Meal with Mountain Vegetables (Sansai Ryori - 山菜) in Takayama, Japan Video Transcript:
It is lunchtime here in Takayama. It is a very rainy day yeah
and we were welcome to the city with a torrential downpour and it hasn't really stopped. There was actually a thunderstorm last night and there was a weather warning. It was flooding but anyways we are going out for lunch today and we have read about something called some Sansai Ryori - 山菜 and apparently this is like wild edible plant and shoots and roots and blooms so we think we have found a restaurant that specializes in this. We're gonna go eat wild stuff other place wild mountain vegetables.
Check out this variety I have so many like little dishes and even on my big plate I have so many like little mounds of your like shoots and greens and the roots. Like this looks amazing so what we're having today apparently it's a PPP which means Mountain
vegetables and the whole idea with this is that they're foraged as opposed to grown in a farm so you kind of have to like and go out and collect it. Honestly, I can probably identify five things on my plate tops but everything looks wonderful. I'm gonna give you a little tour of my plate.
It looks like soft tofu with a bit of ginger on top then we've got some greens going on over here. Let's just start trying things. It tastes like something that grows in water. Little shoots over here that's nice. It just tastes like really juicy and fresh. I've got something that looks a bit crunchy over here that is sweet like a radish. Maybe over here I recognize the Lotus lotus root that's very distinct. It has a very distinct shape that's easy to identify. This looks like bamboo shoots. I've got a little potato happening here you're doing a little better identify these this looks like a tofu spongy thing. Tofu skin.
It is so nice to have this incredible traditional Japanese food and even the setting in here. This kind of reminds me of like whenever I imagined a traditional Japanese meal in my mind it looks a lot like this.
The dishes were beautiful. Just the presentation was was so on point. Time to talk about the price. Sam's which had some meat and some fish was 1950 yen and mine which was completely vegetarian was 1450 yen so converting that into dollars the total was 30 US dollars.
15 per person I'd say that's that's pretty incredible value because it was amazing. You're like in such a cool traditional restaurant and it's such a unique experience.
This is part of our Travel in Japan video series showcasing Japanese food, Japanese culture and Japanese experiences.
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