My meal from JAL. Really liked the hot miso soup, and it was nice to have a Japanese meal on an airplane.
My standard konbini breakfast. All from 7-11. I got really addicted to that hot milk coffee from Boss. Also, I never turn down chicken karaage.
This is the selection from the KOHYO supermarket near our hotel in Osaka. I actually find these meals to be lot cheaper than konbini. If you are near one where you are staying, I think it's a better option than your average Family Mart.
These overstuffed onigiri was a daily staple of my breakfast or late night snack.
Our first bowl of ramen on the trip. Delicious broth and a good all around pork. This is from Ten-Ji-Jin in Osaka.
This is yakisoba from Fukutaro in Osaka. It's a well rated okonomiyaki restaurant. This was literally 2 feet away from me so I pretty much smelled like teriyaki the whole night, which is great.
The okonomiyaki. Tasted good, though it's not my favourite.
This is from Katsuan, a tonkatsu restaurant in Tempozan Harbour Village. It's the shopping complex next to the Osaka Aquarium. Not bad from a "mall", and they had English menus. This cost 1380 Yen.
This was from a restaurant near Dotonbori called "Sex Machine". With a name like that, you just go in and figure out what kind of food they have later. It turned out to be a Yakiniku. For the price, I don't think it was worth it.
I didn't have the courage to try this but I thought this was the weirdest drink to have on the go.
My favourite kind of ramen, Tokushima style from the Ramen floor at Kyoto Station. Highly recommended and it's pretty much a must every time I'm in Kyoto.
The best Japanese curry I've ever had, hands down. This is from a small little restaurant called Spice Chamber in Kyoto. It's run by a young couple, and has only 8 or so bar seats. They have only thing on the menu and it's that. The cheese was a nice complement to the spiciness of the curry.
So much good looking food, so little time. This is from that giant supermarket in the basement of Kyoto Station.
Have no idea what the English name of this restaurant is, but if you get off Kiyomizu-Gojo station in Kyoto and headed up to Kiyomizu-dera, it's right around that station. I love chicken karaage and this place was great.
Menkui Kinya, a udon restaurant in Kyoto. Well executed, but not very filling.
I think this is a supermarket near my hotel in Kyoto. Again, prices and selection was much better than the konbini.
This Sapporo style ramen rocketed up my charts. On the Ramen floor in Kyoto, the garlic of the broth is just so delicious. And the pork was really tender.
CoCo curry! Japanese curry was definitely a "theme" of our trip. My mistake was to order Level 7 spiciness, oh god that was a rough night hahaha!
My little gem of a restaurant in Uji. I was happy to see the older owners still there! This was 1000 Yen, which has not changed in 3 years. The green tea soba was excellent. The Japanese couple next to me complimented me on by soba eating skills!
My friend's meal from Uji, which I think cost around the same 1000 Yen.
This was the Kyoto style ramen joint on the ramen floor. It was OK, just didn't match the taste and quality of the other two. This was 900 Yen.
I needed a little ekiben food for our train ride from Kyoto to Tokyo, so I bought this cute sandwich box from the grocery store in the basement of Kyoto station.
I wanted my sushi delivered by JR trains, so here we are! Sushi go round Kaisen Misakiko Okachimachi in Ueno. The sushi is just OK, but I wanted to take my friend to a conveyor belt sushi restaurant so here we are.
Ikinari Steak, recommended by a fellow redditor. It's a chain, but it's a nice convenient place for a good meal. I think this was around 1500 Yen.
Go! Go! Curry! The curry is a bit thicker than most I've had, but it was still really good. I think this was in the basement of a non-descript building. It took a while to find.
This was somewhere in the underground city in Shinjuku Station. We just got lost and hungry and saw this place that served chicken karaage in ramen. It was from a machine and around 800 Yen or so.
This was up in a food floor in Tokyo Skytree. We were looking for some unagi and this place was still open. Not a bad combo.
One more ekiben for our trip from Tokyo to Fukuoka. Pressed Salmon and Tuna sushi.
Tomato Ramen! I've never seen this before, so I had to try it! The broth is tomato soup and they sprinkle a little parmesan on top. This was delicious and really unique. I got this from Ramen Stadium in Fukuoka, which is more of a ramen floor, lol.
Yatai in Fukuoka. This is real street food in Japan. I unfortunately did not have time try it, also it was a bit intimidating as there's no English signs anywhere.
This was in the museum/gift shop of Yoshinogari Historical Park in Kyushu. A seafood based ramen which I've never seen before. I can safely say this is the best ramen I've eaten in a gift shop. LOL
There are many vending machines in Japan, but I've rarely seen the ice cream one. I ended up finding a gachapon of one as well.
Motsunabe Rakutenchi in Fukuoka. WOW, this was awesome. It's a giant hot pot with pork offal and random meat. You also get lots of cabbage and green onions and they give you rice. It was one of my favourite meals on the trip, and I think this was around 3000 Yen for the two of us.
We got through 90% of this, there was just so much food.
This was from a small little place just outside Daizaifu shrine. Most memorable was that this was run by one lady. She cooked, served, cleaned and did everything. The restaurant had around 20 seats which was incredible to see.
500 Yen squid at the outdoor stalls near Daizaifu. So tasty with the teriyaki.
My Ichiran booth of solitude. We had to visit the "home" of the Ichiran chain, even though I don't really like chain ramen restaurants. You order from a machine downstairs and then you go up two floors to your stall where they place the ramen in front of you. Kind of robotic, but makes you think if this is the future of food.
Breakfast of champions.
When one goes to Japan, one should go to...IKEA? Well, we were in a northern suburb of Fukuoka and hungry and IKEA just happened to be nearby. So we checked it out! Not bad, the whole meal was around 800 YEN and I got a free pencil.
This was in a Fukuoka shopping street. I don't quite remember what the name was, but it was just about to open for lunch and we got there before it was full. Instinctively, I thought this is a good place to eat because there were no English anywhere, it was really busy, and zero foreigners. They only made this one item so I figured it was good. And it was really cheap. I think it was 800 Yen for the whole meal.
This ekiben had karashi mentaiko, which is pollack roe soaked in red peppers and sauce. It was super salty! It's a Fukuoka specialty so I had to try, but I wouldn't get that again.
This was one of the conveyor belt sushi restaurants in the departure area of Narita airport. Not a bad ending to our trip to Japan in 2020!
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