[Japan Photos]: TeH fOoD!!!~

Oct 09, 2007 18:02

Okay,

it´s time for the BEST thing about Japan: Right, I´m talking about THE FOOD and everything food-related.
Before we start, let me warn you, you will DEFINITELY get VERY hungry after this entry. If you´re okay with that, then please enjoy the pics (^^;;)

And a second warning: IMAGE HEAVY LIKE ALWAYS!!! (^^;)
(meaning about 140 photos *coughs*)

Sweets and Snacks:



I´ve already posted this one in one of my prev. entries. Tons of different pockys and other yummie stuff (*___*)
I wanted to try it ALL, but that´s just impossible in only 3 weeks, right? (T__T) ... *sigh*



We bought strawberry pocky. Totally yummie!!!!!! <33333



Traditional Japanese sweets. It´s art, I tell you. Most of them are pretty expensive. I didn´t buy them, only tasted some in hotels etc. ^^;



Again a lot of stuff. And even with ocha (*____*) ... Yah~ I like ocha XDDDD



Daifuku <3333 I totally love everything mochi related, although you can´t eat much of it, you´ll get full immediately XDDDD;
This one was filled with strawberry <333 Oishikatta!~ And here you can see s.th. typical for Japan: they´re packing every little thing extra! XD



Senbei!! (on the left) I totally loooooooooooooove it (*___*) ....
and we bought Kellogs + Müsli (cereals) for breakfast - at the first hotel breakfast was not included, so this was a good choice. In the second hotel we had Japanese breakfast, although only I went there every morning. hesaki doesn´t like rice for breakfast it seems (^^;) ... I too thought that it might be strange to eat rice for breakfast or ... to eat rice 3 times a day, but it wasn´t. I LOVE Japanese style breakfast and I miss that, too (;___;) .....



The most evil crepes you will find and eat in your life. This shot was taken in Harajuku´s Takeshita-dori (of course XD)
These thingies are not only cute, but TOTALLY yummie ...... no wonder that they are so popular among all of the girls (and boys?! XD) in Harajuku ^^





*lol* they have even GERMAN NAMES!!! ... hoho Schloss Neuschwanstein .... (T__T)







.. and EVERYWHERE you go there are tons of omiyage ^^; .....



We also bought an omiyage for Yumi-chan´s family in Hakone :) That´s the one *points above*



Cakes etc. in a combini *drools*
SOS (strawberry on the shortcake XD) mitsuketaaaa~ XD



*lies drooling on the floor*



Wasn´t this the stuff they were eating like crazy in Akihabara@Deep? I think so, but larger ones, nee? ^^



I have no idea what they are called in general XD .... this one tasted a bit like the German "Zwiebelringe" XD



Green tea ice! ^-^; .... yum!



Manju!!! <33





Errrm ... yeah XD



Yummie as well! I bought these in Ameyoko in Ueno and ate some of them at Ueno zoo XD



But again .. you can´t eat much of them! XD

Drinks:



Suntory mineral water. And yes I DID take photos of EVERYTHING! XD



Green Ice Tea. I personally don´t like icetea, but I love green tea. I´ve tried it once, demo yappari icetea ga daikirai XD
I´ve once tried cold Genmaicha though and I LOVED it, but Genmaicha has really a veeeery good flavor that tastes good even if you drink it cold ;P



I haven´t tried this one, but it looks sooooo yummie ... and everything with macha in it IS YUMMIE!! I swear! ;P



Vitamine water. It was pretty yummie and better than plain water all of the time. Cuz it was really hot, you had to drink a lot anyway ^^;



Macha shake @ starbucks! ME LOVES!!!! Unfortunately German starbucks don´t have this one (as far as I know - at least I´ve never discovered one *sigh*) .... I wanna drink that again!! ;__;



Yet another water. Yes I told you, I did take photos of EVERYTHING! XD



Hot café latte ... purchased out of one of the vending machines in our hotel XD (*giggles at name* XD)

Bento:



This is one of the bentos I´ve bought in a combini. I totally love these and I really could eat them EVERY SINGLE DAY!!
I totally miss it *sigh* ;___; *drools while looking at that pic*



Antoher bento. Different onigiris, pork and fish with soy sauce ... if I remember correctly *drools*



Yet another bento. This time it was my dinner at night ^^; With Inarizushi this time <333



Combini Onigiri filled with mayo and tuna ^^

Vitrine Food:



Like I´ve already written in one of my prev entries, prolly EVERY restaurant / café in Japan has vitrines outside, so you can exactly see what you get, what it looks like and how much you´ll have to pay.
This is sooooo great!!!!! I wish we had s.th. like this here in Germany. This one was in front of a traditional Japanese kissaten with lots of ocha stuff *drools*





*drools* but as you can see it´s rather expensive. We didn´t eat there. You can get yummie and cheap food easily everywhere ^^;



Various soba and udon (*___*) ... I like both. I especially like kitsune udon and cold soba with soy sauce (*__*)V



Well, not really a vitrine, but I thought this was interesting and cute, no? ^^;





This was taken at Ueno zoo ^-^; ... cute, nee?



This one, too. Panda menu is what I´ve eaten (I´ve photos of it, but under "Various dishes")



Chinese food ^^ Yeah we were going to a Chinese restaurant once (see somewhere below if you want to know what we ate there ^^)





Tons of different parfaits (*___*) .....





WOAH! So huge!!!! (O___O'') ..... definitely too much for ONE person!



Vending machines etc.:



ciagarette automat ... I do not smoke, nor am I interested, but I just took a photo of those XDD;
They are of course different from ours here in Germany (^^;)



There were icecream machines! Never seen s.th. like that before so I made photos XDDDD



Even Häagen Dazs!!!! XDDDD

Random:



Tons of different curry XD ... even with Pikachu and Pretty Cure on it XDDDD



Small card that was beside the menu card in our favourite pub in Kyoto (^^;) .... Cute! <3



Japanese McDonalds menu XD .....





COCKTAILS!!!!~



Nikuman. I always wanted to try one ..... which was leading to the fact that I ate it immediately forgetting to take a shot of the actual nikuman itself ... I suck XD



Menu in a small Udon / soba restaurant ^^



Errm .. okay this is indeed very random.
hesaki bought sandwiches and I bought Takoyaki (the stuff in the red box <3), dango ^^ onigiri and a fish waffle ^^



Takoyaki close-up ^-^; yummie!



One of the various small food selling ah ... I don´t know the English name for it XD ....



Tons of different green teas in a Japanese supermarket

Various dishes:



TONKATSU!!!! Oh GOD how I love this one! Okay, basically I love EVERYTHING, but Tonkatsu is especially yummie. Even if you usually don´t like Japanese food, you´ll prolly love this one :)
Along with the meat you get miso soup, rice and salad :) .... AND of course we drank calpis soda!!! *sigh* ;___; ....



Another dish in our most fav pub ^^; ... this was with fish when I remember correctly ^^



The legendary omuraisu. I think everyone who has watched Lunch Queen wants to try it at least once, neee? It was indeed yummie.
It´s omelette filled with rice and stuff ^^; and you eat it with a spoon not with chopsticks ^^



TADAAAA~ ... I guess you already know what comes now??? YAH! Okonomiyaki!!! (*___*)





*drools* ... I always wanted to try it at least once! I was sooo happy when we found a Okonomiyaki restaurant. I think it was in Osaka near the large Ferris wheel ^^;



You know, it´s really mean when you sit in front of your food and it smells sooooo good, but it´s not ready yet (T___T) ... especially if you´re VERY hungry!!!!!!
But it was worth waiting, believe me! Totally yummie of course!! ^^



When it´s finished mayo + sauce (they really only call it sauce, it´s a himitsu what they use to make it btw. XD) are used as topping. *drools*
ITADAKIMASUUUU~



Kushiyage. Evil food if you´re always hungry like me. You get your food on sticks. Like cheeseballs or yakisomething (enter whatever) ... soooo yummie.
If you´re full, you turnabout your fish, so that the person who´s making the food knows you don´t want to eat anymore XDDD;



Japanese hamburger ^-^ ... with noodle salad and TAMAGO GOHAN!!!!!! <333 (= raw egg + rice + soy sauce = love) (*___*)V





Just curry ^-^; ....... it was yummie as well, but definitely not my fav!





Panda menu. It was a special menu at Ueno zoo. Cute and yummie ^^



This was dinner at Yumi-chan´s house. Yumi-chan´s mom made it for us ^-^
On the right: shitake with cheese on it
in the middle: sauce, miso soup and pumpkin
on the left: tomato (hehe) salad and meat with vegetables



Close-ups *drools*







This and the next one were Yumi-chan and my lunches when we went to Hakone ^^
Yaki-onigiri on the right, black egg (it´s black because of brimstone)



That was my lunch. Katsudon (I think XD)



Then we (Yumi-chan and me) were eating sushi ^^ ... YAH FINALLY!!!! (no and NO Domoto Koichi XD ... *lol* ... that was btw. exactly what Yumi-chan was saying to me XD, we watched 1 episode of Sushi Oji together *gg*)



Tadaaaa~ .. see? No Koichi-kun XD (I think it´s better this way otherwise mamoritai would have killed us XD)



I totally love sushi and I soooo wanted to try the "real thing" in Japan at least once. Finally I got the chance to do so *drools*



This was the menu XD .... Yumi-chan had a hard time trying to translate all the fish names etc. XDDDDD
As you can see beginning from the bottom, there are the cheap things like tamago and going further up there come the more expensive things ^^;



First: the standard: sake and maguro nigiri -> raw salmon and tuna ^^;
ME LOVES!!!! ^^



Errrm ... I can´t remember ... perhaps shell meat?? ^^;





Temaki ^-^V



Makizushi ... my all-time-favourite ^^





What other people were eating XD ...



.. to ... to .. toro .. the most expensive tuna there ... TOTALLY YUMMIEEEE I TELL YA ;___;





That was the place we went to ^^;



Huge menu on the outside of the shop ^^



Breakfast at Yumi-chan´s. Her father even went to a German backery, but I told them it´s okay and that I prefer Japanese food. They shouldn´t care about me, I eat EVERYTHING anyway XDDD;
So this was a pretty normal and rather Western style breakfast, but it was nevertheless (XD) yummie! :)



We were ... I think 6 or 7 girls. I was the only gaijin, the rest was Japanese, but ALL of them had some kind of relation to Germany, so everyone could understand and speak German *lol* XD (like some of them studied in Germany etc. but that´s another story ^^)
They ordered stuff the "Japanese way" while I was still busy checking out the menu. When I recognized that they´ve already ordered, I looked a bit like a dork, I guess. Yumi-chan then explained me, that the Japanese way of ordering things is, that everyone orders together various dishes and they are then placed in the middle of the table. Everyone can eat what they like this way ^^; ....
On this photo you can see omuraisu, salad and the Japanese croquettes which are really very yummie btw.



I once went to a Chinese restaurant with Yumi-chan and a Japanese friend of her. Again we were ordering the Japanese style, so everything was standing in the middle and everyone could eat what they liked ^^;



I sooo love gyoza / Chinese dumplings ^^



Spring rolls <3



Errrm ... not sure, but it was yummie as well XD



Salad ^^



And this was one of the yummiest things I´ve ever eaten, although I have no idea what it was called ^^;;
They threw s.th. ricepuffer like in it and then it boiled for a short time ^^; ....



Another breakfast at Yumi-chan´s ^^



And this one I ordered in Harajuku while I was shopping there .... (for the 5th time or so XD) *coughs*



Again .. with macha + milk of course ;P



Dinner at Yumi-chan´s: Tofu! I loooooooooooooooooooove tofu!!! <33



My most fav breakfast ever: Ochazuke! ^^



Tempura ^^ .... I´ve ordered this one in Akihabara ^^;



Again Tonkatsu ^^



I´m not sure what this meal is called, it was s.th. a Japanese friend of ours ordered ^^;



RAMEN!!!!! ^_______________________^V .... and I still suck at slurping XD



This one, too.



Oh ... another Chinese dish. I lied, it was apparently 2 times and not only one time I went to eat Chinese stuff ^^;; haha~ ups!



That was our food the last night before I had to leave. Yumi-chan´s parents invited me. It seemed to be a rather expensive restaurant. The waitresses even wore kimonos ^^;





And this was the dessert ^^

Café: Cake & Drinks:



Like I´ve already told you, Japanese sweets and the things you get at cafés are always very cute. Most of the time cakes are very tiny, but you still have to fight your way through them XD ... They´re all VERY sweet!!!



The famous Fujiya (this one was in Ginza).



They have soooooooooooooooooooooooo many yummie things and they all look so damn cute, it´s not fair ;____; .....



Looking at these I really wonder why the German cakes look so plain and boring :/ ..... *sigh*







Of course we didn´t go there without buying s.th. for ourselves and Yumi-chan´s family ^^;;; .....



Tadaaaa~



SOS again (*___*) ... *drools* and yes it was yummie, I don´t have to say this all of the time, do I? ^^



That was s.th. Yumi-chan ate. I tried it and it was yummie as well ^^;



Macha with milk!!!! I never knew this was possible or that it would be rather YUMMIE!!!!
I totally fell in love with it and now make it from time to time at home as well ^^;; ... *drools*



Japanese tiramisu. It´s a bit like the Italian one, but of course way sweeter ^^; .....





Calpis <3 and s.th. we also bought at Fujiya ^^



The Snoopy cappu again with the cutest cake I´ve ever seen!!!
This one was in a ... arrr how was it called café in Ikebukuro (you know there were only girls in male suits .... similar to the maid cafés in Akihabara, but it was a café just for girls XD ... a rather strange atmosphere if you´re not lesbian, I guess? XDDD Noooo! It was pretty cool and guess what?????????? There was a huge tv screen and they showed DEATH NOTE MOVIE2!!! ....)
I was not allowed to make photos of anything else but the food, but I couldn´t resist:



^^; (it was without audio of course, that´s why there are Japanese subs ^^)



Speaking of maid cafés. We went to one in Akihabara of course (photos will follow another time). This is what I ordered there ^^

WOAH HELL! This was soooooo much work and now I´m hella hungry! I´m going to use my new rice cooker and make me s.th. delicious now ^^;
Bye~ ^-^/ Hope you enjoyed it with me! :)

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