The answer is built by joining parts together in sequence
Join the wordplay parts together in sequence
Answer: TEMPEH | Definition: 'Japanese food' | Wordplay: A charade of TEMPE (a gorge in Greece, noted for its rugged beauty, ‘beautiful spot’. My memory of it is in the morning following a violent thunderstorm overnight, with the cliffs shrouded in cloud and water gushing out of every low spot) plus H (‘hot’). Tempeh is primarily an Indonesian food – Javanese rather than Japanese.