I Love Sushi

I know, it's another food based post. You may have gathered that food is important to me.

If/when we leave Japan, one of the things that I will miss is the availability of good quality, inexpensive sushi. Whether it is a take home pack from the local supermarket (yes, you can buy sushi at the supermarket), sitting down at the local Atom Boy (a sushi train chain) for a quick lunch or for a bit more money, a meal at a good sushi restaurant, sushi is one of my favourite Japanese foods.

Challenging Foods

Most Japanese I know like the fact that I try every food put in front of me, and that I enjoy almost all of them.

The are some Japanese foods that most gaijin agree take some getting used to. These include :

* natto - fermented soyabeans (Mel has forbidden anybody bringing them into the apartment)
* umeboshi - picked Japanese plum
* sliced raw chicken liver served with oil and salt (In Australia we are taught to never eat raw chicken)

Whether you try any of them or not is up to you, but if you visit Japan try to be open minded able your food options.

School Lunches

At school, I eat lunch with the students, which is good fun. The fact that I eat the same thing as them means that I have tried a greater variety of Japanese food ( including natto) than I would have otherwise tried.

The food is always good and nutritious, but the food combinations that we sometimes get are not what I am used to. Yesterday is a case in point: a croissant, cocoa covered fried peanuts, cubed sweet potato with a sesame dressing, a soup with spaghetti pasta in it, yoghurt and milk. It was a good lunch, just not a combination I would normally put together.
(^-^) which is a Japanese :-)