Most recent trip - Japan (Tokyo, Nara, Toyohashi, Kyoto, Osaka)

I should really start blogging about my trips before some memories fade. So the first travel blog will be about JAPAN and japanese cuisine, one of the best in the world (apart from mexican, italian, thai, etc..haha). The Japanese really put in a lot of effort into each meal, some of which so painfully prepared that it almost looks too good to eat.

For starters, a Japanese snack - jap sweet cake

the white one is the original flavor, and the green one is green tea.


My first meal here: the only thing missing from the pic is the rice (i love jap rice) but this is what a typical japanese meal looks like.






And for dinner, one of my favorite meals - SUKIYAKI
It's kinda like the steamboat we have here, but instead of chicken stock, japanese soy sauce (Shōyu) is used. The way to eat is as such: you crack a raw egg into a bowl and leave it as a side dish. The meat is then swiped (in our case, pork) and once cooked, it's dipped into the bowl of raw egg. Then you eat it. It's great, but if you are afraid of eating raw eggs, you can actually crack the egg into the steamboat and dip the pork into the semi cooked egg.



here's what it looks like before cooking starts


warming up...



nothing beats a good meal of sukiyaki during winter

Looks like I have to blog about the trip according to each day. It's too long for one entry =)