Takoyaki Sushi? Overseas Eateries Show Versatility of Japanese Food

The menu at Tokyo Corner in Kuala Lumpur offers unique takes on Japanese food. (© Himeda Konatsu)

Takoyaki sushi is a fusion of two Japanese dishes. (© Himeda Konatsu)

Diners pack a Sushi King outlet in Kuala Lumpur. (© Himeda Konatsu)

A variety of sushi rolls in a display refrigerator at a supermarket in New York. (Photographed in March 2021; © Levine Roberts/Newscom/Kyōdō)

A dragon roll at a restaurant in Bangkok. (© Himeda Konatsu)

A book on ramen produced in a tie-up with the Belgian Comic Art Museum features ramen-obsessed Naruto Uzumaki. (© Himeda Konatsu)

A Naruto-themed ramen food truck draws a line of peckish attendees outside a comic market in Germany. (© Segawa Midori)

A menu outside a shop in Rome advertises gyōza ramen. (© Himeda Konatsu)