Japanese Deliciousness

One's first thoughts on Japanese food are probably sushi. Love it, hate it, never tried it, it's raw fish, a fact some people can't surpass. Sushi was all I really knew about Japanese food going in, so the recent vacation was a nice surprise. This post is somewhat of a walkthrough of the meals our family ate in Japan, including delicious sushi.

Food in Tokyo, Japan is a lot like it is in New York City. There's food from almost every culture, and top-notch chefs are there to deliver some great tastes. While on the trip, our family tested food from Turkey, India, Korea, as well as Japan. This is not to mention we also picked up a snack from Wendy's so I could have my first Frosty in 6 months.

Anyway, I'm just going to walk through what pictures I took from the experience, which mostly delves into the Japanese side.

An interesting meal was breakfast. We found a restaurant which offered a full breakfast, being a large piece of toast, a hard boiled egg, and a cup of coffee, for only 450 yen.

I didn't get any pictures of what ended in my favorite meals, which was mutton curry from an Indian restaurant. I did get a picture of our trip to the Turkish restaurant, which was maybe middle of the pack. Middle of the pack is still pretty good for this trip. At this restaurant we all tried to order something different. The meals ranged from some loose meat on a plate with side dishes to the one I ordered: a pizza. It's kind of a strange pizza because it looks like a fish.

One day in Harajuku, we stopped at the conveyor belt sushi joint, as mentioned. The sushi was so incredibly good there, I don't think I can get anything quite like it in Korea.

This one is fish eggs inside of the seaweed wrap:

Kelsey after eating wasabi:

Dave after eating wasabi, I think he is on what he likes to call a "wasabi experience".

We destroyed some sushi in this place, this is only about half of what we ate:
So after all of the meals, my favorite ended up as the Shabu Shabu beef. For anyone who doesn't know, this is very thinly sliced pieces of meat which are boiled in a pot of broth until brown, then put into a cup of sauce to cool and eaten. We ate at a restaurant which offered a 5 course shabu shabu meal, for quite a pretty penny. We ate the cheapest type of meat at about a quarter of the price of the most expensive one, which was still quite expensive.

This meat was ridiculously good:

Cooking in the broth:

This orange sauce was absolutely amazing:

Ironically, a few weeks after this meal I found a buffet restaurant in my town in Korea which offers all the shabu shabu you can eat, among other things. My first time there last week I ate about four plates of it, and I have plans with another friend to spend an entire Saturday afternoon there sometime.

My last meal in Japan, also one of my favorites, was Okonomiyaki. This is a mixture of eggs and vegetables among other things I don't know, and then a bunch of toppings. Some of the dishes are prepared in front of your eyes. All of ours were brought out after being prepared because there wasn't any space next to the table. We were really crammed into this table.

My dish had squid and octopus on it, which was awesome. All of these dishes ended up being really excellent.

Well, that's thats all I took for pictures of the food, which is kind of a lot considering that I took about thirty pictures of food over the trip.