- Bread is pricey and with little variety: just like middle America, it is all white. The only choice you have is thick or thin, and made from wheat or rice flour.
- Aside from the obvious green tea which gets its own shrine-like section, there is a depressing lack of other tea: usually one or two brands of nasty black tea, and then some flavoured black tea. What the heck?! Thousands of years of tea ceremonies and this is what we get?!
- What is the staple Japanese food? Rice, and it comes by the kilo. However one kilogram of rice is at least £8. OK, so it is very nice rice, but to justify that price it should give you magical powers.
(Edit: turns out this is a big political topic, because other countries want to sell much cheaper rice to Japan, but Japan is holding out because it is worried that everyone will stop buying their rice).
- There are vending machines for drinks literally everywhere, containing everything from soft drinks, hot coffee and tea, energy drinks and beer!
- I like green tea, and I like ice cream, but green tea ice cream is disgusting. Save your Yen and just trust me.
- Japanese cooking is actually pretty nice and seems pretty healthy, but does noticeably lack substantial vegetables. Maybe that is why they drink so many vitamin-infused beverages. However they do know how to keep a trim figure.
- Differences between Japan and the West: No. 6)
- Only 1% of the population appears to be something resembling overweight.
- Restaurants often have a outside display of what food is on offer, and what it will look like when it arrives on your table
A Japanese seafood restaurant...or should I say, "see"-food?.
- There is a strange enjoyment of all things raw: from fish, to horse meat to the many dishes that are finished off with a raw egg on top. I think they get away with this because everything is very fresh. Despite their weak immune system they must have some pretty good digestive enzymes!
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