I do not fancy sweets much.
I am a woman though, there is always exceptions to rule right?
However, how can I resist to awe and wow when you see this!

A window full of colours!

I get sick from raising my sugar level but I do appreciate art of colour and design.
And no, I did not take this at an atria,  but I tool this at Kyoto station!

What a work of art! This is pure professionalism. So neat.

Thank God we had an excuse to try out few of these because it was Christmas!!!

I may sound dangerously patriotic but I believe that Japan offers one of the best food.

But where did that come from? We sure did not have a lot of food back then (like, B.C. back then). We were such a skinny country that grew nothing much.
Today, Japanese beef is undeniably the best beef you can find but we did not always have it.
Even rice, oh the Japanese rice.
Unless you hate the starchy rice you must love the Japanese rice. We did not have rice till the Chinese generously taught us the know-how of cultivation.
Thank you guys!!

I think with us it is all about kaizen, or improvement.

Because we did not have much, we improved on what little we had.
And that spirit persisted after we has the luxury of availability of raw material.
I think that’s a beautiful thing.

One more thing we are known for is the “strange” things we eat.
AND NO. WE DO NOT EAT WHALES AND DOLPHINS. So please stop saying that, it makes you sound silly.

In one of the first dates, Robert proudly said that he once tasted jelly fish but I just didn’t know which part I was supposed to be impressed by. Then I find out it was the “jelly fish” part.
I then kind of realised our differences.
We eat jelly fish all the time! I don’t know who ate it first, but people must not have had much food and just decided to eat jelly fish that someone accidentally caught one day.

Anyway, I hope this convinces you to stay with me when I introduce some of the lovely food we eat which you might find…. unusual.

We eat these guys…

What do you think?
I know some people think we are cruel and vicious to eat these cute creatures but I try to compensate it by not eating meats other than organic chicken.
I heard that cattle (apparently these guys are on the farty side) exhaust more CO2 than all types of automobile put together.
I have no source of this though.
But provided this is true, we will decrease the CO2 emission but eating less beef.

Robert was stubborn and did not believe that we eat all of the above creatures till he went to Japan.
He loved most of what he was served so I am happy that he is less skeptic to try new “creatures”.
But one dish that I had to push just a little knot is this.

Chicken Sashimi.
Yes, we eat almost everything raw!
But please, believe me, it is so delicious and its texture is just inexplicable. And do not think it is going to kill you.
I bet you, that this chicken is much cleaner than the ones you eat.
Otherwise they would not dare serve it, would they?
You can also tell it is very clean because there is no “animally” smell.
Plus, we eat this dish with wasabi, which is so stringent that it will kill any possible *germs*.

One rule of thumb is, never, never, ever eat at Japanese restaurant that looks kind of dodgy…
Well, you can, but it is best to stay away from raw food.

Enjoy!