food in japan

1) yakitori under yurakucho subway station.



this is my kinda food. cheap n good street food. this is where ur hot sake is heated in a microwave n taken straight to u, unlike our previous dinner where the chap had thermometers to ensure ur sake is served precisely. whatever that i never ate b4, or sounded weird, i ordered. so i had things like pigs heart, pigs guts n something else along that line. when it came it all tasted the same. all really chewy. so we did some guess work like ' this one so small n extra tough, so must be the heart la, hearts r the strongest muscle in the body right?' etc... the mackerel was really good too, best iver had n i am hardly a fan of oily-fishy fish. oh n i was told that those joints that hand red lanterns outside means its a drinking place. so if u dont order sake, asahi etc.. they're gonna get upset. n of cos we only looked for places with red lanterns.

2) vending machine drinks


they have LOTS. so i decided i shal drink as many as i can while im there n everything its gonna be a difffernt one. from yoghurty orange drinks to yuzu (tangerine) green tea, to peach melba tea with strawberry, to yet another tea but this time made of many other different teas.... n not forgetting their coffee too. just outside the boarding gate i bought another 3 bottles, but none shown here. their lipton lemon was really yummy n not too sweet. the other 2 my brothers enjoyed it. some isotonic drink n the other was grape. everytime i go to japan, im gonna try more new stuff :)


3) an pan bread shop


this shop specialises in an pan. which is jap tao sar pao. didnt buy any tho now i kinda regret but i did walk in n the shop was so ... 'pang'. oh now i remember y i didnt anything, it was too crowded. totally not a fan of crowds.


4) beef curry rice with something-katsu


i wanted to order tonkatsu, which is basically pork cutlet, but the man said he didnt have n offered somehting else. i was obviously am clueless as to what he said, but heck i was gonna try it anyway. i communicated my order by taking his fake curryrice plastic display outside, brought it in n pointed n finger at it. n we did the same for my mum;s order too. u do what it takes to get ur food i swear.


5) funny coffee name


i guess the were trying to say decaf-espresso.


6) typical local eating joint


no frills, no english. but comes with free ice water k. dont play.


7) tully's coffee


this is a franchise coffee joint all over tokyo. its their version of starbucks. there r starbucks ard too but i think i only saw 1 thru the entire trip. theie menu board is in english n they do frapps, blended stuff n the usual suspects. i got a honey milk latte with extra shot. it was yummy n good. really comparable to holland v starbucks. not all starbucks is as gd k. (n they have excellent service too)


8) udon at ANA airport lounge



the fact that they served udon n soba was awesome. but the fact that their fish cake had 'ANA' on it was mind-blowing.