What’s in this box though?

Keep reading and find out!
Look, it’s Japanese Green Tea!
Ever since having my first taste of it on my trip to Japan, it tastes better, and doesn’t have any sugar, compared to the heaping amounts that are added to ‘green tea’ here, to please picky taste buds.

It took forever for the Asian market to restock, and they had a case! Yummm.

And about that spam…

…I tried making spam musubi! It was good, for my first attempt. I’m sure it won’t compare to any that are made in Hawaii, but it’ll do, I like it, and it’s simple to make!

Fish balls and curry, with rice. Makes me feel like cooking some up right now, heh.

Check it out, more dishes and other pictures inside!

Just something from the Food Network site, Asian-style pork. I didn’t see too much “Asian” about it, heh…just that it uses some Asian ingredients. Aside from that, just a regular dish, but it tasted pretty good.

Just some bagged salad, and chicken breasts. Easy chicken parm to make, with Shake and Bake, add cheese and tomato sauce after, bake it for a little more, and there you go. Pretty tasty for a quick, simple meal.

On a side note:

…Candy apples! This was as I walked by the candy shop’s window at Downtown Disney. Geez they looked so good, but I had the willpower to resist.

Back to some more food…

Vegetable Tempura…at least I’m getting my vegetables, right?

That’s that for July, everything else was just college-student meals, lol. Sandwiches and cereal and milk!

At Osakajokoen, where Osaka Castle is located. Outside the train station are several food vendors, and several bands fighting for crowd attention, and hopes someone will sign them up with a label. This is one of the food stalls, making me an order of takoyaki (octopus balls)

….And here it is! Topped off with fish flakes and scallions, it’s reallllly hot on the inside – so, give it a chance to cool, lol.

An omelette with soba on the inside. It was my first taste of Japan’s omuraisu/omusoba, and I fell in love with that dish right here.

Munching food to go with all the alcohol we drank, lol. It’s a place where you can drink/eat all you want, for about $30.

Daikon radish with some kind of seasoning. I couldn’t tell what it was, but it was really good.

This was the type of restaurant I wanted to eat at the most, since I arrived. Conveyor belt (kaiten) sushi. Sushi keeps coming around, and different colored plates determine the price of each dish. Eat as much as you want, just watching out for how much you eat, and will have to pay. It was really good, and it’s a good price for what you eat, lol, depending on what plates you grab.

Yeah, I wish Denny’s or IHOP served up family style meals like this, lol. Family Restaurants (Famiresu) are like Denny’s/IHOP, and most are open 24 hours. Serving breakfast and meals, Japanese style.

Look at all that good food….which isn’t real! Plastic displays outside of restaurants, to show what food they serve inside. Looks delicious enough to eat though.

There’s a lot of food I ate, and now miss, but it’s some good reminiscing.

Here’s a sample, but check out the rest inside!

The preview picture was from my day trip to Nara. A fancy, yet affordable (I was surprised there was only one other customer there) place to eat. It was probably the best dish I had the whole trip, Katsu kare Omuraisu. An omelette with rice inside, topped with breaded pork and curry. Simply delicious, and only $8.

Couldn’t resist taking a picture of a KFC sign. Didn’t eat there, but friends tell me the breading is different from its American counterpart.

Katsu Kare (Breaded pork and curry) with rice. I bought this from the local supermarket for cheap. How? – late night discounts. An hour or two before they close, they start slashing prices on food made for the day. Starts off at 30% off, then gets to 50% off the closer to closing time. No matter that it came from a supermarket, it still had restaurant quality and taste.

Random plate of onigiri and other items, which I ate for breakfast. Onigiri, red beans, tamago (egg), squash, and other things. It was a tasty variety of things.

Another night’s dinner from the market. It was my first time seeing the pork-sushi type dish, on the left. Breaded pork, with some shredded lettuce and some sauce, wrapped in rice and seaweed. It was reallllly good though. Lol, it’s like trying to counter the fried pork with the rice and seaweed. Regular plate of sushi on the right, with tuna, eel, shrimp, roe, tamago, squid. All this for under $10? I wish I could find someplace like that here in the States.

Outer market of Tsukiji. I didn’t know what half these foods were, but I asked the lady what she recommended and she told me to try the fried onion. It was good though, but lol, it couldn’t overcome the sushi I had that morning, straight from the market.

A lazy, quick, yet yummy dinner. Melon bread, and mochi. After a long day walking around Osaka, we decided to try out some sweets.

Okonomiyaki, at Osaka; my friends recommended I tried it here. It’s like a pancake, but with meat, veggies, or whatever else you may want on it, topped with fish flakes, okonomiyaki sauce, and mayo. It was goooood.

Lol, I think all the food I ate there was good.

Yesterday’s dinner: Chicken quesadillas.
Not to bad, using some frozen, precooked chicken, heating it up in the oven, then chopping it up and adding it to the insides of a quesadilla. Hey, what can you ask for when you’re a college student not in the mood to do some extensive cooking on a Sunday night? I thought it was good, and hey, my roommate said it smelled good…so what else can I ask for? It was a decent dinner. And if anyone needs to know, it was Purdue brand Bourbon Chicken chunks that I used =P

Tonight’s dinner? Duck from a local Asian Market.
Purchased perhaps 10 days ago, so lets rewind. Like on the storefronts of Chinese restaurants who display their meats for passerby, there are ducks, pork, squid, and other meats hung on hooks, already roasted. Buying a whole duck, I watch the guys behind the counter chopping it up into sized pieces with their cleavers. Opening up the roast duck, it revealed to me all the grease and fat that laid under the skin. I then slowly regretted buying it at that point.

Eating that last half of the duck, I tried to take out as much grease and fat as I could by baking it all in the oven. All the baking in the world (well, without charring or destroying the duck) could not take out that grease. Sure, it was yummy, but if you’re on a diet…do NOT come near some roast duck, lol. Unless it’s been de-skinned, then you should be okay for the most-part. I’m currently taking some tums, and saying it’ll be a long while until I ever buy duck again.

Oh, I bought Anthony Bourdain’s “A Cook’s Tour.” I love his show, and hope to love his books as well.

It was posted a long time ago on my regular blog, but hey, why not start of with this dish on my first food post for my food blog?

Just broccoli, Chinese sausage, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, water, corn starch, and finishing it off with some sesame oil, it’s not too hard to make. Throw it all in a pan, mix it all together until the sauce thickens, and you’re done! Pan fry some noodles, and it’s a great dish!

From my kitchen, to the store, to…around the world (Or whereever I go, lol), you’ll see what I see, cook, and eat! Welcome, and いらっしゃい！