Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Introduction to Japanese Food 314 (nope, it's not 101)

Soft Drinks @ Convenience Store: Look!!!!!!!! It's Pepsi White. You don't see that everyday here in United States. Left one is Calpis Strawberry Vanilla Latte Flavor (yep, it's such a long and complicated flavor). It's tasty, however, the taste doesn't really stick so if somebody dares me to buy another one, I wouldn't.

Typical Breakfast at Hotel:
That's fairy good amount of breakfast (at least for me because I don't eat that much in the morning). Yes, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.


Wealth of Sea



Look at all these seafood

Lunch Time:

Right one is called "Takoyaki" (It literally means "baked octopus"). Very popular food. They are dumplings made of batter, diced or whole baby octopus, tempura scraps, pickled ginger, green onion, and konnyaku (kind of like jelly/tapioca thing), topped with sauce, green laver, mayonnaise, and katsuobushi (fish shaving). Fish shaving makes it look like it's alive because when it's placed on top of food that's emitting heat, it moves around like crazy.

Left one is called "Taiyaki" (It literally means "baked sea bream"). It is a Japanese fish-shaped cake. The most common filling is red bean paste, but this one I had was filled with soy bean milk cream with red bean. It was my dessert for that day. Yummy!!!



1 comment:

  1. Cool! Nice new blog site! It's cool that the Bulls won and you got a Big Mac! Wow, I haven't had one of those in a while. About Quantum of Solace, it was nowhere near as good as Casino Royale. :P

    The Japanese food looks great! We've had one of those fish-shaped cakes at the Chiang Mai Zoo, except it was filled with blueberry and another with chocolate. Lydia likes the red bean ones better. It's good to see you're still up to date with interesting and new flavors, even international ones!!

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