Halal food in Japan

If you are Muslim and were worried about finding HALAL food in Japan, do not worry (so much). Thanks to an ever increasing Muslin population in Japan, mainly due to foreign people from middle East (I have met Egiptians, UAE, Iraq,Iran…) and Asian countries (mainly but not only Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangla Desh,…), HALAL food had become, I am not gonna say popular, but possible to find. There are some supermarkets/markets in which you can arrange meat deliveries.

http://baticrom.com/

http://www.faisalfood.com/shop/

http://mall.azhar.jp/ihf/mise

Besides, since the Japanese culinary tradition has a strong vegetarian base (owing to the Buddhism background and to the fact that they go mainly for fish rather than meat), you won’t have too many problems in bringing stuff to your table.

Big Universities even provide some HALAL dishes. I was surprised to find out in my cantina that they serve HALAL chicken (deep fried). I didn’t try it yet tough, because honestly, it looks too fatty…

However, and this is a general comment, be sure about the cooking process of the food. Even tough the food may be HALAL, the Japanese people are unaware of its meaning, and you may end up getting proper lamb seasoned with stock made out of Okinawan pork, simply because the cook thinks it tastes better…..