My boyfriend is severely intolerant of alliums (onion, garlic, shallot) and we want to plan a trip to Japan. How difficult would it be to find restaurants that can work around that? It isn’t a true allergy that is life threatening, but alliums make him very sick and it would ruin a day of the trip. Cross contamination isn’t an issue, but anything with alliums as an ingredient wouldn’t work (like if a restaurant puts ketchup in a sauce, the ketchup has onion as an ingredient but people often forget about things like that). Any tips appreciated!
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You’ll find lots of (fresh) green onion and leek. Garlic powder I’ve also seen used pretty regularly (depending on the type of restaurant, obviously).
My suggestion would to be learn the Japanese to ask about the allergy, or print off an allergy card in Japanese that you can show servers and clerks.
Also since it isn’t a “serious” allergy, the boyf could always go to a doctor recommended allergist and see about getting shots that can help for the trip.
I believe the majority of authentic Shojin Ryori is allium free. I believe the temples where it was created eschewed allium as well as all meat/seafood.