Hi fellow Japanese learners
I wondered if there is somewhere already a vocable list with foodstuff created.
I am sitting in an Izakaya an realize for the n-th time that I can't decipher anything on the menue
Thanks

It depends on what you have with you. Android seems to have a good app (Japanese Food Dictionary (Free) by Steve Turtle), available in the Android store. The ad and demo look good, but as I don't have Android, I can't test it. It claims that it doesn't need online access, and claims to pronounce the item verbally.

I have an iPhone, and haven't found anything specific for this. I use the "Imiwa" app, that allows me to "build" the first kanji of a word from a table of radicals and then look at a list of compound words and phrases starting with it, but that is rather cumbersome. Also, I have not used it to decipher menus (not needed at my level), so I don't know how many food items it contains. It also does not require online access, but has no audio capability--romaji or kana pronunciation usually does well enough for me.

May be best to ask the waiter "Eigo de, kore wa nan desu ka?" (what is that in English?).

Any other ideas out there for us iPhone folks?

Thanks.
I am also an iPhone user and for some single words I use imiwa. But I guess I would starve before deciphering a menu that way.
English often isn't an option in Japan and would defeat the purpose of actually learning to read a menue :-)

I actually was more thinking if there has been already a pioneer within skritter to create a vocab list with foodstuff only. To actually actively studying it. I looked a bit around but didn't find anything but that might be due to my limited search abilities.
Thanks everyone

I don't know if there is one or not, but honestly the izakaya menus can change pretty often anyway. There's a lot of food names that you just won't find in a dictionary; things like Dairy Queen's HungrBustr, or Sonic's Chili Cheese Coney, or Subway's Melt - just names that really don't tell you what the food actually is. But honestly, I wish there was a nice, handy list too.

Sorry, I just saw that there was a reply to this, so I'll expand a little bit. For iPhone users, there's actually a really handy Chinese keyboard that let's you draw Kanji that you don't know. If you go into Settings>General>Keyboards>Keyboards>Add New Keyboard, then look for Chinese Handwriting (or something like that), you can add it to your keyboards, then switch to it while using an app like imiwa (which is fantastic) and draw out the characters. It's a miracle and a huge time saver.