Japanese food

Ok. So far I've not really commented on Japanese food. Here's what
food in japan is like.

Breakfast:

Breakfast in Japan is goofy. So far I have had
1. A whole fish, 6 inches long, formed into an s-shape and covered in a sweet sauce.
2. Rice.
3. A double sausage AND bacon mcmuffin from mcdonalds. So much promise...ruined by ketchup. Taro says I can't special order it without ketchup, but by god I'm going to try.
4. salad
5. Eggplant
6. Miso soup. Not bad. Good for a hang over.
7. A hot dog. It said sausage, but I know a hot dog when I taste one.
8. Dennys. Japanese dennys is pretty solid. The waitresses must go to training in the U.S., though, because the service is sorry.
9. Cold egg loaf with tofu. No explanation required.

Lunch
1. Udon noodles are the best. Doughy and delicious, and perfect if it's cold. eggplant, onion, Ginger, cabbage may be added. Add tempura shrimp, and you have successfully combined fried food with soup. Add spice for a little heat. In a classy joint you combine the ingredients with the broth yourself, at an amusement park it comes ready to eat.
2. Soba. Not my favorite. Noodles made from buck wheat. They're sometimes cold, and served without any redeeming qualities. In magome and tsumago, the only restaurants in town served only soba noodles. I survived on happy time snacks and fanta grape.
3. Unidentified spherical doughy omelete type things. Comes with your choice of toppings, like mayo, cheese, curry. Filled with enough vegetables and things to keep it interesting. Jury is still out on this one.

Dinner
1. Sushi in japan is different. They don't go in for fancy caterpillar rolls with 7 ingredients. They like rolls with 1, maybe 2 ingredients. Locals are amazed if you can use chopsticks, and might
just stare at you throughout anyway. Fish quality is about what you'd expect stateside.
2. Raw horse. I had it. It's pretty good.
3. Chicken gizzard. Eat it before you know what it is. Best with spring onion
4. Carpaccio with raw egg. Have 3 beers first. It's rich and tasty.
5. Unagi. A bowl of rice and a filet of eel, covered in delicious sweet eel sauce. Thumbs up.
6. Cow tongue. With some Chinese mustard, devine.

Snacks/desserts
1. Dried squid. Salty and slightly fishy. I like. It's like buying a bag of cheetos.
2. Pickled anything. Japanese pickle the crap out of things that should not be pickled. Avoid radish, kimchi, and anything else pickled.
3. Mochi. I think this was described as sweetened bean paste. As bad as that sounds, it's good.
4. Yatsuhashi. This is the best. Swetened rice noodle type dough filled with delicious stuffing such as chocolate. Available only in Kyoto.
5. Apricot water. Slightly flavored japanese apricot water is awesome. Mix with shochu and you have a delicious if slightly feminine beverage.

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