Any tips for traveling in Japan?

[Jason W.]

@77GreenMachine

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From top left: tuna, yellowtail, salmon (?), mackrel, ark shell, herring roe, no idea but delicious, shrimp with hidden wasabi, sea urchin, salmon roe, crab, eel.

Looks like bait to me!

 

[McCracken]

If they have difficulty understanding you, I find it best to pull the corners of my eyes back and say it again with a Japanese accent. That seems to work most times. Your results may vary.

 

[ncsutj]

They eat some weird shit over there. I don't eat fish or seafood except for shrimp. Seemed like every meal we ate when I was there had some kind of seafood in it. I always made sure to find the McDonald's or 711 close by.

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[DSM Turbos]

Lol, I had to chase that sea urchin with some ginger AND saki to get the flavor out of my mouth.

Uni is the worst, makes it even worse when a coworker right before tells you the consistency is like snot. I almost didn't make it through it.

 

[CasterTroy]

Seemed like every meal we ate when I was there had some kind of seafood in it

It's like, they're on some kinda ISLAND or something

 

[Andy J.]

Nice spread.

I think your salmon(?) is actually lean tuna.

Thanks! I didn't think salmon was that dark, but couldn't remember what it was.

 

[Andy J.]

Uni is the worst, makes it even worse when a coworker right before tells you the consistency is like snot. I almost didn't make it through it.

I would describe it as seaweed-wrapped rice topped with barf concentrate.

 

[Andy J.]

Today’s culinary adventure:

Started with ‘Japanese pickles’ which I was told is squid, fish eggs, seaweed, and ?? In a ginger vinaigrette kind of sauce.

Then on to the yellowtail salad..

Then the sweet corn tempura. This was served with a sweet dipping sauce and quite good...

Then the star of the show, chicken on a stick (definitely NOT chicken) and a corn dog made of chicken skin patte that you dip in the barely poached egg in the little bowl.

I couldn’t bring myself to finish the chicken skin dog.

 

[obullfish]

Today’s culinary adventure:

Started with ‘Japanese pickles’ which I was told is squid, fish eggs, seaweed, and ?? In a ginger vinaigrette kind of sauce.

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Then on to the yellowtail salad..

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Then the sweet corn tempura. This was served with a sweet dipping sauce and quite good...

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Then the star of the show, chicken on a stick (definitely NOT chicken) and a corn dog made of chicken skin patte that you dip in the barely poached egg in the little bowl.

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I couldn’t bring myself to finish the chicken skin dog.

Cat on a stick

 

[CasterTroy]

Cat on a stick

That's china you racist bastard

 

[obullfish]

That's china you racist bastard

You can get it in Japan also. Nothing beats the Korean dog though. Just a distant squint cousin.

 

[Falko]

Today’s culinary adventure:

Started with ‘Japanese pickles’ which I was told is squid, fish eggs, seaweed, and ?? In a ginger vinaigrette kind of sauce.

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Then on to the yellowtail salad..

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Then the sweet corn tempura. This was served with a sweet dipping sauce and quite good...

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Then the star of the show, chicken on a stick (definitely NOT chicken) and a corn dog made of chicken skin patte that you dip in the barely poached egg in the little bowl.

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I couldn’t bring myself to finish the chicken skin dog.

I don't know if you ordered for yourself, but you've found a major issue with trying to decipher menus in Kanji.

Matching up the symbol for chicken may get you fried chicken or chicken yakitori, but it can also get you chicken cartilage or chicken hearts yakitori.

 

[Andy J.]

I don't know if you ordered for yourself, but you've found a major issue with trying to decipher menus in Kanji.

Matching up the symbol for chicken may get you fried chicken or chicken yakitori, but it can also get you chicken cartilage or chicken hearts yakitori.

Character languages FTW! I have not been ordering for myself. Thus far, I have been asking my Japanese counterpart (whose English is nearly impossible to comprehend) to recommend traditional Japanese dishes and then I yay or nay. The funny thing is, he described the chicken plate as “bbq chicken” when ordering and then later gave me the real breakdown (with the help of google translate).

My new Japanese friend and I will part ways tomorrow evening and I’ll get to have some fun figuring it out myself until my flight home Thursday afternoon. So stay tuned to see what happens

 

[Jason W.]

That's some gross shit!

 

[Andy J.]

Went for the ramen at lunch. Was not disappointed.

Also saw one of those car elevators like on Tokyo Drift but was running for the train and didn’t stop to take a picture. #fail

 

[Andy J.]

Not to turn this into a ‘what I ate in Japan’ thread, but for Philip’s benefit, this is the best sushi I’ve ever had in my whole entire 35 yrs of existence. Tuna purchased at this fish market this morning. @77GreenMachine

 

[CasterTroy]

Now THAT looks incredible

 

[77GreenMachine]

Yes that looks VERY good!

 

[Andy J.]

One final note on food in Japan: If all else fails, McD’s double cheeseburger tastes EXACTLY the same as it does in NC. I can’t lie, I was actually a little disappointed to uncover this truth. McD’s quality system FTW.

 

[Chris_Keziah]

One final note on food in Japan: If all else fails, McD’s double cheeseburger tastes EXACTLY the same as it does in NC. I can’t lie, I was actually a little disappointed to uncover this truth. McD’s quality system FTW.

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According to @adamk that does not hold true in China.

 

[Andy J.]

According to @adamk that does not hold true in China.

I tried to buy a burger at McDs in Beijing but the only form of payment accepted was mobile phone pay app.

They also had some cool stuff like a German burger that had a brat on it. The McDs in Tokyo had a teriyaki versions of fish and chicken, but otherwise the menu was the same as the US.

 

[Halftrac]

Husband spotted on Youtube the Japanese vending machines that looks like you can anything out of them. Fried potatoes,noddles apples bananas to damn near anything else.Look like the guy had a map with all the machines on it with what they have. Some of things in them would work over here in thee schools. Pizza in 5 min,burger in a box,2 min

 

[Andy J.]

Husband spotted on Youtube the Japanese vending machines that looks like you can anything out of them. Fried potatoes,noddles apples bananas to damn near anything else.Look like the guy had a map with all the machines on it with what they have. Some of things in them would work over here in thee schools. Pizza in 5 min,burger in a box,2 min

I have heard of these and was passively looking for one, but no luck. Most of the machines I saw looked like this:

 

[Halftrac]

I typed in Japan Vending Machine,an several came up with were there at. Im guessing the naughty ones were in the redlight area. Saw several eat joint that had a machine out front where you order an pay,go inside place your ticket on line of moving bowels. Remember your bowel color wait a bit then the your color comes around get your food. No human contact. Was also told that they have pod hotels near airports trains etc. Look that one up.

 

[Cherokeekid88]

I have heard of these and was passively looking for one, but no luck. Most of the machines I saw looked like this:

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Those vending machines over there are insane. I just did a quick google search and they have a vending machine for EVERYTHING! incredible.