How do you say "Is there fish in the broth?" in Japanese?

Name: You Said No Meat, No Fish. They Said No Problem. Your Miso Soup Still Has Fish In It.
Uploaded: 2026-08-29T13:57:47Z
Duration: 34 s
Description: Learn to say だしに魚は入っていますか？ (dashi ni sakana wa haitte imasu ka?) — Is there fish in the broth?. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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You Said No Meat, No Fish. They Said No Problem. Your Miso Soup Still Has Fish In It.

To say Is there fish in the broth? in Japanese, say だしに魚は入っていますか？ (dashi ni sakana wa haitte imasu ka?).

You told them no meat, no fish. They said no problem. Your miso soup still has fish in it.

だしに魚は入っていますか？ dashi ni sakana wa haitte imasu ka? Is there fish in the broth?

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In this video

だしに魚は入っていますか？ dashi ni sakana wa haitte imasu ka? Is there fish in the broth?
すみません、だしに魚は入っていますか？ sumimasen, dashi ni sakana wa haitte imasu ka? Excuse me, is there fish in the broth?

Why this phrase

Kofuku plays a vegetarian traveller ordering at a small restaurant; Hana plays the staff member taking the order, answering completely honestly. The trap is that the broth, dashi, is usually made from dried bonito, and nobody in Japan files dashi under fish, because it is seasoning rather than an ingredient. So a totally truthful 'no meat, no fish' answer still lands fish in your bowl. The fix is one question asked before ordering, phrased so it cannot be answered around.