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Published: March 9th 2006
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Home Made Gift
(By a mother at work).
The brown chicken looking pieces are cooked eel - quite tasty. The sushi rolls have mince beef (not raw) and spinach filling. The food in Japan so far has been great! I have only had traditional Japanese food a couple of times - one really good experience and one very bad (see below). On the weekend Belinda, Tomoko and I went to a Mexican restaurant - very nice (but of course run by Japanese)! We have also been to Italian and Chinese restaurants. One of the first things I noticed was the amount of restaurants here - I will never go hungry!
Belinda and I go out to eat about twice a week. Some restaurants are really cheap; they have a $12 deal, where you get a main, salad and dessert. We have also been to Maccas and that is pretty much the same - taste and cost. A couple Saturdays ago the Kindy staff and all the parents from the Koala class went out for dinner to a Japanese restaurant. It cost about $36 each. There was a huge amount of food that just kept coming and coming and unlimited drinks! I was pleasantly surprised except for the RAW sliced chicken which I didn’t even give a second look! I now know that just about anything that can be cooked, the
The sashimi that made me SICK!
I'm not even sure what kind of fish it all was, I think one type was tuna. Japanese eat raw, even beef! One thing that they do not eat raw, which seems funny to me, is fresh mushrooms (like in salads)??!!
The parents of the kindy children are extremely generous (see picture, right)- they often give the kindy gifts of food - for festivals, if they have travelled (i.e. they will bring back cakes from the particular region they visited), or just for no reason. It’s great because Belinda and I usually get to take it home!
There is a little bakery directly across the road from where we live, nice cakes and fresh bread - I have become quite a regular!
The way food is packaged in Japan makes me understand why Japanese people are all so thin. Everything is in tiny portions - breakfast cereal, potatoes, meat and especially bread! You can only buy packets of 3-8 slices; there are some packets that even have all the crusts cut off! Quail eggs are also very popular! I do have to admit the only thing we have bought in bulk is rice - a 10kg bag! Haha!
In the supermarket, the dried seaweed section takes up half an isle, as does the
One Of Millions
Vending machine - the middle row (red) is hot drinks! The coffee is pretty good-it comes in a small can! green tea section. They are obsessed with green tea; you can buy green tea soap, green tea ice cream and even green tea lollies - yuk! Like most other countries you can also buy alcohol from the supermarket; beer, Jim Beam, sake and they even have Australian Wolf Blass wines.
I don’t think I would survive here without the 100 Yen Shop a.k.a. Lemon Shop. Yep, EVERYTHING is 100 Yen (bout $1.20) and they have everything you need apart from fresh food. It’s great!
My first experience of sashimi (raw seafood) was not a positive one! It was in my first week here and Belinda and I decided to have sushi and sashimi for dinner. I wasn't loving it while I was eating it but thought I better get used to it....I'm living in Japan after all!!! The next morning I was not feeling great at all and felt even worse when I couldn't keep my last nights dinner down! I forced myself to Kindy and went on my first bus run - the 40 minute journey with 10 kids restless kids in the back of the bus didn't help my stomach. By the time I was back
Japanese Restaurant
Dinner with the Koala parents, and of course we had to take our shoes off! at the kindy at 10am, I decided I couldn't stay any longer, so I went home straight to bed! What a great first week impression! Thank goodness we don't eat sashimi every night!
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