my grandfather would eat pickled lambs tongue with mayo on white bread ALL the time. would pull out a tonge and wave it at all us grandkids and say "want a sandwich???" this is the same guy who brought a deer home during hunting season, painted the nose red, took us all out to the garage and said "look! i killed rudolph"
dude..seriously, tokyo has the best food on the planet..and your eating MCDONALDS? I mean the fruit alone..the quakity..go buy some fruit it will freak your shit out. also, all the other non japanese cuisines are well represented. omigod the BAKERIES ALONE. MCDONALDS????!!!!!!!!!!???????????????????
Jackie Jackie Jackie.... I was age 10 or so at a party that my Uncle put together. Lots of adults, few kids, all sorts of food. I was munching down these appetizers, some sort of meat on a toothpick. My Uncle noticed and asked me if I wanted to know what it was. Sure, why not. I followed him into the kitchen. He opens the fridge and takes out a complete cow tongue.....
It's actually a trip to eat at McDonalds in Japan... they're clean. The employees are polite and seat you and then bring you your order. The food actually looks like the pictures. When I was there, Filet-o-fish were just 100 yen each... I was in heaven.
at least he didn't tell you it was the cow from your favorite book or something!! J/K ^^ we must come from the same type of sicko family.
100 YEN for Fillet of Fish? I remember seeing a chart of comparing the world's MacDonald prices in the FACE magazine and Hong Kong is the cheapest. Fillet here is about 166Yen.. and a set meal is 347Yen. Maybe its the exchange rate US -> Yen is better? I wonder if there is a site like that now... kind of geeky but nice to know
I was just hanging out with my moms buddy, an 84 year old Chinese guy, and he was just telling me about Dragon, Tiger, Phoenix soup. Freaks me out about the cat thing. He always talks about having a shot of live snake bile and whiskey after playing mahjong for like 24 hours.
If you read Anthony Bourdain's book A Cook's Tour, the chapter on Vietnam covers a similar topic. Walking down a pathway to a restaurant and picking out the animal that's going to be on my plate, on the way to the table, just makes me want to go vegan.
just for the record I have not eaten at McDonalds while in japan. I have eaten more pizza this week than I can remember.
Glenn! Nothing says as much about a culture as their food. Searching out good chow is always a priority when I vacation, even when toys are involved. Do they offer up any "odd" pizza toppings in Japan? You can get a packet of sesame oil at McDonalds in China for the fries, so wrong, but so good! I'm a chef by trade I've read it and lived it. The book only scratches the surface of the madness.
Oh I have lived it too I worked in a restaurant in college, and was a waiter at a high end restaurant for a couple of years. Food service is a wonderful thing isn't it? It's funny..I always know which of my friends have worked in the food service industry. The ones who haven't always send their food back.
Brian is a vegetarian. But there are still plenty of opinions in Japan given that. but I shall not scold you all for being Horrible Americans who only ate pizza while in the motherland. next time, I should go with you. ha!
I seriously can't wait to eat at Mcdonald's if I ever get over there. I like to eat Mcdonald's in any foreign country. always a fun experience.
I'm with ya. I like to try it at least once to see how it differs. Japan has the teriyaki burgers, and the UK has veggie burgers that is basically a mushy veg patty fried. They have curry sauce for the fries, as well! In Japan, I remember seeing that Pizza Hut had a pizza with link sausages (basically hot dogs) baked into the crust. Looked good, but I'm sure tasted awful. You gotta eat the local stuff, too. Japan can be difficult for vegetarians, though
I'll third that, though there's some good stuff that's easy to find like yasai tempura, udon, soba....lots of restaurants have salads too. I had a great veggie meal at a restaurant in that little walking area next to Nakano Broadway (not the long corrdidor, just outside of it). We had to wait for a table. so they gave us little cans of Kirin to hold us over while we waited.
if your vegan man..go to the food dtores. excellent fruit, veggies,noodlestofu etc etcc. much better than anything here.
you've got to love the international mc'donalds experience..last time i was in japan,,,they had the EIB burger,,,,a shrimp/prawn sandwich,,,yummy!!! new zealand has the mckiwi burger with beetroot and an egg...or the brazilian mcnifico burger (although i don't know what is different about it to a quarter pounder).... i am off to japan in two weeks,,,going to live off of egg salad sandwiches from the lawsons (they make them REAL special) and big cans of mountain dew (you can't get the lovely dew in the uk )... ahhhh,,,,healthy living...
