As with most cuisines of the world, they progress into something more modern over time. What are modern cuisines? Some say, when non-traditional foods or non-traditional cookery methods are bestowed into that culture’s way of cooking it then becomes modernised by the people of that ethnicity. The West has the most influence on how cuisines changed. One of the cuisines most wrought by the West is Japanese cuisine.

Modern Japanese restaurants are becoming increasingly popular in the land down under. Japanese restaurants offer a diversity of menu items, which appeal to most of the public. There are heaps of flavorful selections to choose from, such as wagyu beef, Japanese bbq, and salmon carpaccios, just to name a few. Wagyu beef, cattle associated mainly from Japan, is the most moist and tender, butter and smooth taste to it according to some. It is an pricy meat and very high measures are put in place to raise them to insure that the best quality of meat is attained. Many people enjoy Japanese barbecue. Typically, various meats and vegetables are brought to the table raw and cooked on either a charcoal or electric grille. As the meats and vegetables are cooking special japanese sauces are mainly used to flavour the food. Normal Asian constituents are used in the sauces, such as; garlic, sesame, soy sauce, and sake. Salmon Carpaccio is a exquisitely prepared dish. There are a few versions of the recipe, but usually very thin slices of salmon lay on the serving dish with pickled ginger sprinkled throughout the salmon. Sometimes one would see edamame beans with the salmon as well. For the finishing touch, a sauce is drizzled over the top, usually sesame oil or miso based.

In Aussie, many Japanese restaurants offer their clients a assortment of Japanese barbeque styles and also diverse entrees of wagyu beef. Veggies, seafood and various meats seemed to popular for Japanese barbeque at many restaurants, with an assortment of cooking sauces to choose from. Wagyu beef can be served as: beef tenderloin with a garlic-ginger ponzu sauce, wagyu beef as a sirloin or in a roll form.