Food. Well, we were pooped looking around for our first dinner in Japan. We wanted something authentic (meaning not McDonald's), yet, my senses were confused by previous meal's new flavors, not necessarily enjoyable in my condition. Like green tea flavored cake, or boiled eggs of a strange bird, or plain steamed pumpkin... The only meal I can really count on is hotel breakfast. Japan has awesome granola with plain yogurt. For a little note, there is no sweet yogurt in Japan, only plain. If you want to sweeten it, they use a fine sort of sugar, that comes in a little packet, attached to a yogurt cup. In our case, it was sitting in a bowl, next to yougurt. I preferred it without any sugar
(cause all that healthy Japanese food was making me more conscientious about my sugar intake. I've concluded that it's very hard to die of diabetes in Asia, heartburn would be a more likely cause for me.)
We ate dinner at Yoshinoya, Japanese fast food restaurant. They served beef, pork, or curry bowls. It was not spicy, but the smell of the restaurant made me sick. Rice was all right. Beef was thinly sliced in a long ribbon, fat included (they don't trim it.) It made my heartburn worse, so I picked at some rice (whatever I could manage using the chopsticks,
silverwear was not an option.) Soup you eat with chopsticks as well. Fish out the chunks, then drink the broth.
Frankly, I've had hard time with Japanese food. Green tea is not just a drink - it's also a legitimate flavor they add to ice-creams, desserts, pastries, sauces. It has a kind of grassy taste and often looks like green paste squirted out on cakes instead of frosting, which to me, ruins the cake.
Rice, too, is used for desserts like rice dumplings coated in sugar (m-m-m, j/k.) I don't know, I am not a fan.
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