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Dhabas and Japanese food: Visit mini Japans in rural Haryana and Rajasthan

Reclusive Japanese community made automobile belt spread across Haryana, Rajasthan uniquely its own

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Hata Isamu, the chef at Daikichi restaurant in the Ramada Neemrana, acts as a translator and cultural consultant for the hotel. Photo: Dalip Kumar

Manavi Kapur New Delhi
The busy highway between Delhi and Jaipur is dotted with “pure vegetarian” dhabas. If you look hard, you will also find on the highway Daikichi restaurants that offer Japanese cuisine with cold beer to boot.
 
The industrial belt that spreads over Haryana and Rajasthan is home to large automobile makers like Maruti Suzuki and Honda and their vendors. In Haryana alone, 487 Japanese companies, as of 2016, operated out of the industrial belt that now includes a special zone in Jhajjar.
 
This has resulted in a large Japanese expatriate presence, both in these industrial towns as well as