The Adventures of Eating Japanese Sweets and Snacks

[somer]

Booooooy, that was something else. Sorry this is so late, supernutjapan, but here it finally is. My little summary or 'How my Mom, my sis and I went to Japan for a Day'. THANKS AGAIN FOR SENDING THEM OVER! ♥ And thank you, hybridshade. for the impromptu help with the translations ♥

Comments

[jj1564]

Hee hee, this cracked me up "But well, the squid on a stick really LOOKS LIKE A SQUID. So it's really a dried squid. A whole dried squid on a stick. Sorry, I'm still not over it." It does look horrible! The rest of the stuff looks interesting, it kept making me think of "Changing Channels" though!

[somer]

Tbh, the dried squid was the worst /o\ For me, personally, anyway lololol But still a lot of fun to see it and try it. :)

[amberdreams]

We managed to largely avoid anything too horrible for our delicate Western sensibilities when we were in Japan but I did have an iced lolly that I thought from the picture and packaging was some sort of red berry flavour which turned out to be more like kidney beans, which was both unpleasant and weird. The only other food misadventure we had was in a restaurant in Osaka underground station shopping centre, which didn't have any English translations, so we were going by pictures alone. Me and the hubby ordered what looked like some sort of spaghetti with tomato sauce. It arrived suspiciously quickly, the noodles were cold, an off-putting grey colour, and the red sauce turned out to be spicy hot like tabasco! Our Irish friend ordered a large Pepsi which turned out to be iced coffee. LOL

[somer]

You are brave!! I think I wouldn't try anything without knowing exactly what it is. Wow, so a kidney bean lolly? It's interesting, because they seem to have a lot of snacks with bean paste too.

We have a saying here. "Was der Bauer nicht kennt, das frisst er nicht." Which means "What the farmer doesn't know, he won't eat it". (My translator says the right translation is "Some people won't eat anything they've never seen before.)

P.S. Did you ever learn what the 'noodles' were?

[amberdreams]

It was a case of being hungry and having to eat something - except I couldn't eat those noodles because the sauce was way to hot for me. And nope, we've no idea what they were!

[supernutjapan]

Probably Korean noodles :) Were they hard to chew and swallow?

[sillie82]

Oh my, that squid... :O

[somer]

A really interesting experience XD

[milly_gal]

Oh my GOD seriously, that squid, I can't look and yet I can't look away!!!

[somer]

Yeah, it's really fascinating, isn't it? So different from what you get here. You def won't find a dried squid ANYwhere lolol

[beelikej]

Heehee, what a fun stay-at-home travel adventure:) Those one bite snacks look cute. That squid, whaaaaaaaaaat? Definitely not something we have over here.

[somer]

So it seems the squid is really unique for Japan? Wait, not true. Sous told me she knows about it too and likes it! The one bite things were favorites. They really tasted okay! :)