Yesterday we went shopping for supplies. In Japan, one Yen is about one cent, so 100 Yen is about one dollar. In Japan, there are 100 yen stores like dollar stores in the United States. They have all sorts of things from pencils to Frisbees. One interesting thing is that the cashier only has to count the number of items and multiply by 100 Yen to get the total price. If you didn’t know about the value of Yen, it might be confusing to look at a bag of Ramen and see the number 200.
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| A interesting tofu tray. |
Another interesting thing about Japan is the food. Rice is huge in Japan. It is served with almost every meal. Also essential are fish and vegetables. Seaweed is also common.
After shopping, we went for lunch. We went to a restaurant called Sukiya, that's signature dish is beef over rice with fried onion. It is like the McDonald’s of Japan. After lunch, we came back to our house. We were very tired.
Because I was thinking about you in Japan, I dreamed last night that I was someplace sort of like Japan in which I had to serve myself some food from a buffet table, and when I got back to my own table, I realized that I had a mound of rice on my plate that was about 6 inches high! A huge amount, enough for four people, at least. I am going to practice using chopsticks so you won't be too far ahead of me!
ReplyDeleteWhat sorts of ways is seaweed served/eaten?
ReplyDeleteKaty- this is Louanne- many, many kinds of seaweed. You can buy it dried in little packages at the grocery store. Everything from sheets of Nori which is used to wrap 'sandwiches' of rice and vegetables or meat, to tiny slivers that are added to soups or as a garnish. The other day at the grocery store we came across a package in the produce area of a brilliant dark green seaweed that looked like spaggetti with tiny (sesame seed sized) grape-like clusters all over it. It was quite expensive, so we didn't try it, but it was very pretty. There are two Japanese cook books at the Mansfield library in the kids section that are helpful about ingredients and meals.
ReplyDeleteWow! They sound like interesting things to try...I've had seaweed in chips & ricecakes and liked it that way. Thanks for the info! :)
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