all things food related

As I mentoned before, food is expensive in the grocery stores. I have learned that it is cheaper for me just to buy prepared food than the make it myself. This is illogical, but I have stopped trying to explain it long ago. This is what I have learned.

1. The Japanese like to eat all of the animal. And by that, I mean liver is wildy popular and served in many Chinese dishes. Unsuspecting Chinese dishes. Like General Tso's Chicken (and liver.)

2. The Japanese love mayonaise. (one "n" or two?) Love it. But not the American-style mayonaise, the Japanese style mayonaise. It is yellow, runny and very very eggy. Tonight, I bought sushi. Just your run of the mill crab sushi. It had mayonaise in it. It would have been significantly better without it.

3. They will eat food deemed unedible by every other culture. For example, fermented soy beans. I had the misfortune of ordering this about a week ago. I had gone out with my roommate, and was playing the "point at something" method of ordering. I got miso soup (delicious), rice, a whole raw egg, seaweed and a small plate of the stickiest stuff in the world. (I thought I had ordered chicken.) So, I poked at the sticky stuff with my chop sticks. Like I said, it was the stickest stuff ever. I picked it up and I got strings off of it for a good three feet. Then I got the awful idea to taste it. Think of the worst food you have ever tasted. Fermented soybeans are no comparison. They don't even smell edible. They didn't even resemble something organic in a previous lifetime. So, I got the bean up to my mouth, licked it, and immediately pulled it away from my face. I accidently touched some on the way down. It took me three handwashings to remove the smell. Never ever in your worse dreams order natto.