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Japan Food Varieties

Yesterday I had a nice cold ramen in Kashiwa for $6.80. That seems to be close to the low end of the price range but it was pretty good. Japan Food Varieties will amaze you. You can go from raw to deep fried food in the same restaurant or in speciality restaurants. You can get everything from vegan to almost every kind of meat, even bear. By now you probably know Japan is famous for whale and horse meat. And some of their world famous Italian restaurants are here as well. Every part of Japan has it’s own special foods you should try. Go from Hokkaido for excellent ocean foods to fatty pork in Okinawa to baby bees in Matsumoto. And, heads up, there is no tradition of tipping in Japan so the price you see on the menu is the total you pay except for places that have table charges (OTOSHI) with a small snack or those that don’t include the sales tax in the menu price.

This is a very delicious and unusual gin produced in Okinawa and maybe not available elsewhere
Ice cream is everywhere and somewhat tasty though not as flavorful as most western countries
Delicious noodles below
UMI NO BUDO Ocean grapes prevalent in Okinawa
Expect some TRAD “American food”
Okinawa style noodles
The most flavorful rum I have ever had. It is available only on Ishigaki Island
A Okinawa meal. Fatty pork with rice, noodles, cured seaweed and NIGAORI (goya)
Special Japan Food Varieties.; grilled fish in a semi sweet sauce with sashimi including HOTARU IKA (squid from the north.
TONKATSU, one of my favorites with sesame above with the stick for grinding it.;
Strange Indian and Thai restaurant. You see the lunch menu varies in price from US$7.50 to US$9.50
Strange combination
Thai food in a Karaoke bar in Kashiwa
My neighborhood Sushi/Izakaya. Mr. Kamiya on the left is the same age as me and looks like my Danish adopted sister’s father
I have many favorite foods in Japan. One is TEMPURA.
A good UNAGI restaurant on the Tokaido line
This is their UNAGI (eel)
Country noodles
korean style grill
Special variety. Above is something on a cured root.
Curry style tonkatsu
Somewhat spicy noodles with veggies and pork
On Monday you can get noodles for as low as US$3.40
Student discounted food
korean style grilled food for as low as US$6
More student discounts
Wow! To the Unagi in Noboribetsu
it was delicious
Sapporo fish restaurant. It was very tasty
A Sapporo KAITENZUSHIYA (conveyor belt sushi restaurant )
Delicious grilled fish
In UENO this ramen restaurant has the best pork ramen I have ever had for US$9.30. These are very tasty big pieces of pork which you never see.
A typical IZAKAYA (drinkery) with grilled SHSHAMO fish (eat head frst), stingray fin, grilled chicken skin and liver
Delicious gyoza in a Shinjuku chinese restaurant I want to return to
With my former neighbors at our neighborhood sushiya
Griled BURI jowl with sashimi
Side dishes of MENMA and ZASAI
a live hot dog
EDAMAME tofu. First time
You can see the prices of food at drinkeries in Ishigaki
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