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Breakfast
A Japanese breakfast might
consist of raw egg over rice
with soy sauce, strips of dried
salted seaweed (nori), some
grilled salmon, pickled veg-
etables. While the raw egg
over rice might seem too snot-
like, it is quite delicious with just
a dash of soy sauce, the flavor
of the fish, or some salted
seaweed. Also natto might be
served with breakfast (covered
later).
Fast Food
Japan has McDonald's and
Kentucky Fried Chicken. You
might find some limited enter-
tainment and comfort of home
visiting here and comparing
your experience.
Besides fast food tempura,
gyudon and katsu, there are
local Japanese fast food burger
joints.
First Kitchen
Look for the large numeral "1"
around town. Try the hotate,
scallop with butter and salt - a
powder you shake into a bag of
french fries. Probably mostly
MSG.
Kentucky Fried Chicken
KFC is like you might remem-
ber from home except the
biscuit might show up shaped
pancake longer, longer longer
than you expect.
Hiroshima-Style
Near Yotsuya station, down the
main street, and around a
corner to your right just two
streets after the "since 1967
Jazz Bar," in a basement
there's a Hiroshima-style
Okonomiyaki restaurant. The
proprietor is also a jazz man,
the food and the music are
excellent. Here the proprietor
prepares the pancakes for
everyone.
Nabe
Nabe is a hearty soup cooked
at your table. Typically a clay
pot is delivered with the ingredi-
ents already inside. There are
many varieties of nabe, try the
karai, a nearly-creamy spicy
nabe. After you eat most of the
good meat and veggies from
inside you'll get some udon to
add to the remaining sauce.
Oden
At a 7-11 convenience store,
you might see a vat of bubbling
brown briny liquid separated
into six or eight different slots:
inside each fishcake, squid
bits, vegetables, radish, eggs
marinating. You can point and
choose, for a small bowl's
worth maybe with spicy yellow
mustard. Other places serve it
besides 7-11.
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