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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.

Okinawa gin
This is a very delicious and unusual gin produced in Okinawa and maybe not available elsewhere
ice cream Japan Food Varities
Ice cream is everywhere and somewhat tasty though not as flavorful as most western countries
Noodles
Delicious noodles below
ocean grapes
UMI NO BUDO Ocean grapes prevalent in Okinawa
beef
American food
Expect some TRAD “American food”
noodles
Okinawa style noodles
Ishigaki rum
The most flavorful rum I have ever had. It is available only on Ishigaki Island
Okinawa meal
A Okinawa meal. Fatty pork with rice, noodles, cured seaweed and NIGAORI (goya)
fish and sashimi
Special Japan Food Varieties.; grilled fish in a semi sweet sauce with sashimi including HOTARU IKA (squid from the north.
tonkatsu
TONKATSU, one of my favorites with sesame above with the stick for grinding it.;
India Thai food
Strange Indian and Thai restaurant. You see the lunch menu varies in price from US$7.50 to US$9.50
Indian, thai
Strange combination
thai food
Thai food in a Karaoke bar in Kashiwa
sushi resautant
My neighborhood Sushi/Izakaya. Mr. Kamiya on the left is the same age as me and looks like my Danish adopted sister’s father
Tempura
I have many favorite foods in Japan. One is TEMPURA.
unagi
A good UNAGI restaurant on the Tokaido line
This is their UNAGI (eel)
noodles
Country noodles
korean
korean style grill
variety
Special variety. Above is something on a cured root.
curry tonatsu
Curry style tonkatsu
noodles
Somewhat spicy noodles with veggies and pork
cheap noodles
On Monday you can get noodles for as low as US$3.40
student discount
Student discounted food
cheap korean
korean style grilled food for as low as US$6
discounts
More student discounts
unagi
Wow! To the Unagi in Noboribetsu
tasty unagi
it was delicious
Sapporo fish restaurant. It was very tasty
kaiten sushi
A Sapporo KAITENZUSHIYA (conveyor belt sushi restaurant )
grilled fish
Delicious grilled fish
pork ramen
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.
izakaya
A typical IZAKAYA (drinkery) with grilled SHSHAMO fish (eat head frst), stingray fin, grilled chicken skin and liver
gyoza
Delicious gyoza in a Shinjuku chinese restaurant I want to return to
neighbor
With my former neighbors at our neighborhood sushiya
kama
Griled BURI jowl with sashimi
beef
side dishes
Side dishes of MENMA and ZASAI
hot dog
a live hot dog
edamame tofu
EDAMAME tofu. First time
prices
You can see the prices of food at drinkeries in Ishigaki
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A Turkish Foodie

The quality of food in Turkey is generally very good. I was surprised how consistent the quality is across all areas of the country. So it is so easy to become A Turkish Foodie. Just point to what you want if you can’t understand what the food is called. Venture in to almost any restaurant and you will find something you will probably enjoy.

stray dog
He was one of the stray dogs at gas stations, I guess because of potential handouts
meat
Meat, especially beef and lamb, are the key proteins. The Pita like bread is a main thing. The long pepper is also prevalent. The yellow peppers in the dish are often served. They are one of my favorites, salty, sour and spicy. The chopsticks are mine. I find them easier for salads than a fork
nut shop
Nut shops are everywhere
Walnuts
parking
Driving and parking is so similar to Thailand
Vegetables
Typical breakfast. Notice the separate vegetables with no sauce or flavors. That is on most food served.
tea A Turkish Foodie
Tea is served after the meal and free except in Istanbul where every Euro is squeezed out of toursts
pizza
I didn’t know pizzas have Dates
good beef
Very well cooked meat with a bean soup. Notice the yellow peppers.
veggie salad
Tasty veggie salad with bean sauce and green peppers
kids A Turkish Foodie
Kids playing in the snow
Turkish pizza
Most cities in Europe you will find Turkish restaurants serving pizzas. But the one here is so different I would consider it a Turkish innovation
Dog food
On many street curbs you will find food for dogs and cats.
salad
Another nice salad
beef
Thin but not overcooked pieces of beef
cheese pizza
Nice cheese and sausage pizza
snowing
Snowing on the way back to Istanbul
felafel
Falafel with plain vegetables
egg and tomato
Breakfast egg and tomato standard offering
taksim
Taksim Center in Istanbul
accordion player
Accordion player
tram
On the old tram in Taksim
The old tram
Foodie restaurant
Inexpensive foodie restaurant
airport promo
So I suggest airports promote themselves as “the best” if the have a huge duty free area.
Cadillac mark
On the right side of this bus driver you can see a Cadillac mark. Someone has a “dream car”.
Check in
Checking in…..
Future sign
This is a sign from the future. Look at the date
chinese space
Stopover in China, typical communist giant, useless space.
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Exploring Italy Verona: A Culinary Journey

The cooking this restaurant is Japanese. The food was just like eating in Japan, good flavors.
We met a retired Plantology professor in Freising. He was born in Ireland but moved to Germany more than 30 years ago. He enjoyed drinking wine at the lunch. He was also very good Guide around this old and historical city
At a dinner with friends from Garda and Verona
Our dinner friends included to sommelier and this is the wine they chose. Very delicious.
A little overcooked around the edges but delicious 4 cheese
Just something for breakfast. The one on the right had pistachios on top
This restaurants FAGIOLI
This was at a restaurant out-of-the-way, newly opened and really delicious food . Bar Fuoricorso. Go here and try the food.
We had the second and fourth one from the top
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Japan – food and drink

these are from my last trip in Japan.

It’s not creepy, it’s just creap, short for creamy powder, the equivalent of coffeemate
Elegant salmon with scallops and ……
This is my breakfast in the Wakayama business hotel . Not really exciting
This is a little more exciting, breakfast in one of the Toyoko Inn Hotels
Some really excellent beef
Miso ramen down the famous Sapporo Raman alley which is the host of the famous Sapporo Ichiban
Way too many people lined up for the most famous Ramen so I went down the alley a little bit and had some excellent Ramen which you see above
And one of the underground stations you can buy sandwiches in the machine
And the hotel you have machine delivering soft drinks and coffee and tea for breakfast buffet
In the subway station you can buy all sorts of things including baseball caps in a machine
You can buy ice cream also from this famous prefecture well known for dairy products, Hokkaido
In Asahikawa this Tonkatsu restaurant was featured in a television presentation and the food was excellent
This is the tonkatsu (deep fried breaded pork cutlet) with a little bit more sauce than most people use. Excellent food
Sapporo was the place this country loved learning and producing German style beer. This large and very long park has months long beer festivals.
Each company has their own large area
Even Craft beers are present
Even this very famous Munich beer company is present
Meanwhile, back in my old neighborhood sushi restaurant …
You could see the name of the restaurant with the phone number. Everybody here is a lot of fun
But after the sushi restaurant we went to a Thai nightclub serving some of my favorites
Another breakfast, not fantastic but good enough to fill me up to start the day
In Okachimachi, Tokyo you can find this famous Chinese Gyoza restaurant
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pakse-paksong food and…

in the 1970s Laos was the most bombed country in history. We visited a coffee shop which was partly destroyed by something and highlighted some of the weaponry was used against the objects of the bombing some of which included innocent civilians.

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The cappuccino and sweets were very nice
You can see the bullet holes in the walls
This pizza in this small town of Pakse was amazingly delicious
Selling frogs at the local market for lunch or dinner
Nice spicy salads in the nice sunny weather
Picking out avocados at $.70 a kilo
Red ants have created a nest of leaves filled with eggs which are a delicacy
It really wonderful avocado and mango smoothie made in a bistro owned by a German fellow who was from a small town near Munich where we happen to be going in the next week
Avocados growing everywhere
And of course we have to have some Korean food to spice up our life
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Food and friends

At Mauro’s Babylon Italian restaurant on Koh Chang
Falafel dish at Poke Bowl. Can’t say it is very Hawaiian but it is good food
A nice café desert
Sweden and the U.S. at one of our usual haunts
Chicken rice (KAO MAN GAI) in Vientiane
Lao style “sushi” in a hot open market, not my idea of sushi for sure (Vientiane)
small lunch, spring roll
gee at her coffee stand before moving back to her home town in Surin
in the city (SFO) we used to have Mr. Muso’s cookies like this one in my cappuccino
in Laos, pineapple picked the day before. Soooo sweet
delicious Indian food in Lungprabang
Cooking for Gee’s return home party. We will miss her.
In Pakse, Laos, a remarkably delicious pizza lunch
Laab (spicy minced pork), tam som (papaya pok pok), and dried, fried beef in Vang Vieng, Laos
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food in the fast lane

Of course we have to start it out with pizza. This is made at Flavio’s restaurant and is a nice thing crust quattro formaggi.
On a quick trip to Japan it was just very necessary to have a lot of pickled ginger
You can guess
Just for me they made some very nice tempura
The brown food on the small dish is salted Fugu (puffer fish). The first time for me
Fatty tuna was very delicious
Finally I got to a Korean grill
This Korean ramen was labeled very spicy but there was almost no spice in it
Very rare
Half green half yellow indicates some chemicals used in growing these bananas
What do these dogs have to do with food? They are waiting for their evening handout
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Food – Thai, Lao! Etc.

A variety vegetable salad with some noodles on the side
A very unusual assortment
Very nice vegetable and fish soups. They were very filling.
The sauces were very interesting. Some more spicy and some were very herbal
This grilled sticky rice was very delicious
We came here several times for their tasty noodle soup in Vientiane
Pseudo Mexican food but very tasty
A Lao crêpe
Chicken and rice street food style
Typical grilled sticky rice on the street
Some sweet and sour chicken and some chicken with vegetables
A cheese roti whiz not so much sugar has requested
Turkish balloon bread with some nice things to eat with it
Pseudo-Mexican tacos
Ethiopian food in Phnom Penh
A Turkish pizza
Some pork neck with bamboo soup and somtam
For the durian fans
Some spicy sausage salad on the left, dried beef on the right and some vegetable salad up above
Another delicious Korean meal with Kimber and some cheese topped dish
Some really nice Korean food
A Turkish restaurant across from the Japanese hotel in Phnom Penh
Some Mexican food, and idea created by someone from England
Not really what I wanted to eat
Delicious Italian food back in Koh Chang
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Food – a potpourri!

This Lao hotpot for boiling meat and veggies was nice but the second time we went there the meat was of much lower quality so never again!
Sticky rice is a great staple when eating some kinds of food especially those you eat with your hands such as NAMTOK MOO.
Coloring your clothes with a blue flower is a good option. However, it is important to know the color doesn’t last long and you should not eat your clothes after coloring them. The chopsticks are only for manipulating the cloth without getting your fingers colored.
have to try this Lao beer
avocado, cornflakes and dates with milk – a special breakfast
for a sushi buffet (all you can eat) this Vientiane OSHI restaurant is a good option though the quality is not up to Japanese standards
How do you want to pay in Laos at this coffee shop? They cover all options. These are scan to pay bank payment systems.
Ok, not food. but he has a CSK shirt on, my old company in Tokyo, but he is in Vientiane.
Stir fried pork/ginger with pork LAAB (salad) and spicy cucumber (Lao style)
pickled meat (SOM MOO) PORK
you often have your selection of prepared food on rice. these are spicy options.
PAA DEK fermented fish. very stinky made with Mekong river fish
a grill buffet with fairly inferior food
Vietnamese deep fried spring roll with noodles, veggie and sauce.
Italian potato with cheese
good Italian bread with cured meats
Yes, I was there with wine and a nice Italian entre