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By the way, how familiar are you with Japanese food?

 

I've been trying to think of some must try things to eat in Japan.

There is a Japanese fast-food restaurant called Mossburger. They use only the finest river moss from Tokyo's rivers... Just kidding! They use a bun made out of rice. It's been so many years I forget what kind of meat----but it was beef. It was actually pretty good.

Then there is yakitori----chicken meat on a skewer cooked over a flame---that is really good.

If you want to try blowfish (fugu), the restaurants that serve it will often have a dried blowfish (belly extended, as it obviously sucked up air before it died) hanging outside the door. The chef's are licensed and well trained so you have a 72% chance of not succumbing to the poison. I'm joking---the chef's are good and I can't really recall anyone dying from it in modern times. (And those that have were generally just foreigners anyway-----I'm joking!)

You might run into a street vendor selling takoyaki----octopus balls----those are good. Balls of dough with octopus cooked up. There are other steet vendors selling food too, such as ramen, or takoyaki, and so forth. You should be safe eating from a street vendor in Japan. I would never ever recommend eating from a street vendor in the Philippines. (In the Philippines I one time watched a bored fruit vendor take her knife and dig something out from under the nail of her big toe with it. A few minutes later a customer came up and she used the same knife to slice a piece of fruit and give it to him. It was just her and a fruit cart and a stool on the side of a city street. No sink or anything to clean the knife off...)

Okonomiyaki is called the Japanese pancake---it is dough with meat and vegetables cooked in it. If you go to a restaurant that specializes in that, you will have a griddle at your table to cook it yourself. Yakiniku is Korean barbeque, and you will cook that at your table on a hibachi----it is really good and uses quality steak.

Yakisoba is referred to as Japanese spaghetti by some----it is a Japanese version of chow mein, made with buckwheat noodles.

The nice thing about many Japanese restaurants is that they will have plastic or wax versions of their food in the window----you can always take a waitress or proprietor outside and point to what you want.

A lot of restaurants serve a very good curry (Raisu Kare, or Kare Raisu). Karai is spicy, and for mild you could say mairudo.

If you like sushi, then I assume you are already familiar with that.

Yoshinoya's serves a beef bowl (gyudon) that is very good and very cheap. They also serve beer----which might seem odd to an American because it is, in a sense, a fast food restaurant. But you can generally get beer and sake anywhere---even from vending machines.

I would definitely recommend going into traditional coffee shops (kissaten) and ordering Kohii (coffee) or Aisu Kohii (Ice coffee). It is really very very good. Unfortunately, from what I understand, they are getting pushed out by Starbucks-----but I am sure they are still around.

There was a little tiny hole in the wall restaurant between Kyoto and Oasaka---called Sakedojo. It was real close to the Makino train station and the food was really good----they cooked the best fried chicken I have ever eaten in my life. Only the locals knew about it, but at night it was packed. It was greasy---consisted of just a long counter and stools against the kitchen, from the sliding doors that went the length of the restaurant to the back wall it was no more than 7 or 8 feet at most-----but it was an incredible place to eat. Even their fried rice (yakimeshi) was probably the best around. Unfortunately it closed down a few years ago... :-(

 

Normally...not at all familiar..I do not fancy sushi...i can eat it..but i prefer either shashimi,or a good soup.
i will never be able to learn to eat with chopsticks(ahah)when i was in Kualu Lumpur i tried Korean cuisine..
one day I orderd kimchi..because i loved the picture on the menu... :bulb:
kimchi are fermented vegetables..i did like the taste somehow.... :bandana:

 

I'm not really fond of kimchi myself---but they do have it in Japan.

You should be able to get a fork and spoon wherever you go.

 

@Wolf...

I found this link for a Tokyo bath experience..i'll see..seems interesting anyway..

https://tokyocheapo.com/living/jakotsuyu-sento-tokyo-bath/

 

it's bit too quiet in here..how come?

 

I use to know a girl named Kim Chi.
LOL

 

If you plan on visiting very many temples and shrines during your trip, look for a stand or a window where a priest or shrine maiden or someone stamps these blank books. Buy one of the books----it has blank pages (that fold out rather than turn), and have them stamp it and write the date and temple name and so forth in calligraphy. It is pretty cool and the stamps and calligraphy (done in brush and ink) is very cheap. The book should be cheap too. Some of the shrines and temples only do a stamp, but most will have someone that does very beautiful calligraphy. Then every temple and shrine you go to you can collect the stamp and calligraphy.

 

Does the party around here need a shot of adrenaline?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FwMa4SNLM

 

Hi all!! I've been MIA for awhile, focusing on work and living life I will be getting my GED on March 23rd and hopefully starting college on March 31st, planning to study canine behavior and dog training. Just got a job at a doggy daycare yesterday, life is going very well!! I hope everyone is doing well!

 

Happy Birthday to Old Tiger!!!!!
Just remember, you are only as old as you feel....
Now, let's get this party started!

 

Super Happy Birthday my Tiger. You D Man!

Laci, Awesome! Congratulations! You ROCK IT. I Believe IN YOU. YOU GO girl! Your Future Will Rock. The World is YOURS.

 

On another note. shameless_heifer and her man are in bad shape.

Check: Church of the Good Earth 1963 and Beyond
for info:
http://www.hipforums.com/forum/topic/106866-church-of-the-good-earth-1963-and-beyond/page-332#entry7875914

 

oh well..let me tell you all how i spend this day..I took my motorbike for a ride to a mega supermarket... :bandana:
did a splurge in that bloody supermarket.==few CD roms,a bottle of Trois Rivières Martinique French plantation Rhum 40%===no shit...oh?
also a chicken Provencale preparation with herbs which is now in the oven for 30 minutes..i'ts gonna be nice..no doubt..
to be honest to you all...i never celebrate my birthday in a very elobarate way..I'm a simple man in life..
I dig the GOOD things..the things that go straight to the heart...a gig,music,someone who asks me==how are you,crazy man?things like that;you know...
i maybe have to put a 7 in my age..but...that doesn't mean a fuck to me...because..I know for myself..
that age is just a number on a calendar..and for me..that hippie calendar..started in 1969..so..just be honest..
I'm not that old to you all,am I?and if you think i am..fuck you all..i'm NOT. :dizzy2:
so..some you tube..I know december is still few months away...but..who cares a fuck??it's music...
oh..and for the U.K peeps on here..I got a Branston small chunk pickle..woohah?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpif53KdvI&feature=youtu.be

 

Yea. We all celebrate the anniversary of Old Tiger coming to the planet. Hip Hip Hurray!
A very great thing to celebrate.
Where would we be, without him? A far sadder world that would be.

 

aw..listen here,Kenny..without you..there would not even be this thread..
it would have been an extremely sadder world,don't you think so?
i got contact with Shameless(Mary)via p.m..they will be allright..i burn a candle....

 

Tiger. You're the BEST. You've kept it ALIVE all this time.

Tiger ROCKs!

 

Well,thank you,Kenny..you said it right..not easy to keep this thread going.. :devil:
but..i always do my best to make these excellent folks in here stimulating to put a posting..
I bet sometimes we do not know where to begin or what to say...
@kenny=i got Mary's adress in Texas and i promessed to write a card to her and Lynn from Japan... :bandana:
I've been very busy chalking out a programs,booking hotels of all sorts from capsule style until 4 star...
I'm ready for a good karaoke somewhere..I think i'm gonna have the time of my life in Japan..
I always thought of Japanese of being funny and polite folks==let's see if that's true...
I think i'll take some condoms along as well...one never knows...hm..hm?
I like to give a big thanks to Wolf==he KNOWS about Japan==great dude he is... :bulb:
and yes...finally==rock'n roll..i keep on rocking..and let's keep on chooglin...
P.S..I hope Keith Richards went to the dentist=see you tube(ahah)
so now...who's gonna be the first to post again in this interesting thread?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkSb_nLQDRw

 

Happy Belated Birthday, Old Tiger.

 

Nothing much going on around here.

Maybe it's time for a PARTY!

:chef: :drummer: ​