Nagoya Japanese Food

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Traditional Japanese food is quite healthy, sashimi, and sushi which is raw fish with rice and soy sauce or wasabi (green paste - hot chilli-like flavour). The other type of Japanese food is always fried food, quick to cook and cheap and not necessarily healthy. The latter is the type of food provided by the university cafeteria. Fried pork, yakitori, sukiyaki, tempura udon noodles and rice.
I went to a sushi restuarant with my new Japanese friends, Hiro and Aki, they took me to a place in Nishi, a local sushi bar, very good, cheap and healthy. 500yen each. I ate sashimi which was delicious, aji and katsudo it was called, I had Nagoya sushi roll which is fried pork pieces wrapped in rice and seaweed paper (sushi). I ate udon noodles, steamed ebi (prawn) with garlic and lemon and tempura and crab sushi rolls with fried cheese. It is so far, the best sushi bar I have ever been to. Like in Sydney the sushi bar has a rotating belt with 5 different types of plates, colour-coded according to price. You can select what you want as the plates go round you or order fresh, which is what we did,
Fried Chicken in Teriyaki sauce
Japanese food, and always with rice.nice and hot. My eyes were wide open watching the beautifully presented fish rolls, strips of meat and fried pieces of meat on the little plates, Japanese put so much care into food presentation, and sp everything looks tempting to try. You get a hot flannel/towel to wipe your hands/face aftr coming off the street, a little tray with a little cup for green tea, served hot or cold. little plates of food, small portions but filling and chopsticks, clean wooden ones each time.
We refilled our green tea ceramic mugs, the tea is delicious, contains caffiene, so you can get addicted to it.
There are loads of Chinese restuarants here, very popular with the locals and cheap. The business men dressed in suits sit on one side whilst the labourers sit on the other side, an unspoken rule. Ive never seen women eating out during the week, the bars and restuarants are frequented by mostly men on their own. We went to a Japanese restuarant/cafe style diner. Manga magazines ( animation )are provided as you wait and dine. There were so many men alone at tables, eating, reading manga and/or sleeping. Japanese people can sleep anywhere, I think they
Cafeteria Food
Miso soup, fried pork and noodles with raw eggwork so hard and have so much compacted into their lives that sleeping occurs where ever and whenever you get the chance. They are always sleeping on the trains. Men in black suits and navy suits, salary men coming home late from the office all asleep on the train, on weekends the trains are livley, everyone goes out and enjoys themselves. Everything is open all the time, Saturday and Sunday are huge shopping days, often you will see groups of woman together with so many shopping bags/designer bags. they are alomost dropping them, walking and shopping in high heels and they never seem to be tired. I dont know where they find the energy, it is non stop. Men go out together and women go out together, its seperate. I have only seen young people, like university students or up to 25 year olds with their girlfriends and boyfriends going out to bars and restuarants. But socialising is always a group of men or a group of women.

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Photos

eel in Teriyaki sauce
Japanese food, and always with rice.

Cafeteria Food
Miso soup, fried pork and noodles with raw egg

Eating out in Nagoya
My Hongkong friend KyuKi

Cafeteria Food
Egg and rice with veges and miso soup