Travelsty: Stuff I've eaten - Takayama, Shirakawa-go and Kanazawa edition. and Kyoto. and Hiroshima. and there was still a bit of Tokyo left. Fuck it...

Stuff I've eaten - The rest of the trip edition.

A bowl of fish goo from a place at Tsukiji fish market.

Miso

The sushi sampler.

The malformed green tea chocolate covered bear biscuits I ate on the train.

It almost looks delicious if you don't notice the english under the japanese.

Less so from this side.

Need this, to stop me buying that.

Sweet goo filled goo.

Japan has a vending machine for everything.

Meyajima is famous for Okonomiyaki, also known as "Japanese pizza"

This is of course a lie, to get foreigners to try it.
It is good though.

I think it was orange flavoured

Lychee fanta

breakfast buffet

convenience store food

A cup of jelly cups.

Maple bisucits from Miyajima

each filled with a differe3nt kind of goo

unrefrigerated cheese and small goods.

attack on titan candy

The maple kind?

Takayama even has monkey themed beer.
I did tell you about the takayama monkey right?
It's the best story...

Salad.

This was probably so delicious we ate it before I remembered to take a photo.
Or it's the empty plate of the salad above.
At anyrate, it was important enough that I took a photo of the empty plate.

Hida beef.
Best beef I've ever had.

grilled to perfection.

Takayama had a farmer's market

they involve egg white and honey in some fashion i believe

grill your own beef on a leaf, in Shirakawa-go

Cloudy Sake.
Cloudy sake is sake that hasn't fully gone through the sake making process.
Which is to say, it isn't finished. Which is to say, don't drink it.

Kanazawa is on the opposite side of the country to Tokyo, and has access to different waters.
As such they believe their sushi to be in every way the equal of, if not superior to, sushi in Tokyo.
They are, of course, delusional.

Grapes from the farmer's market.

green tea soft serve.
Why I didn't pay extra to get gold leaf put through it
is a mystery that eludes me to this day.

Back in Tokyo

Whale.

Having tried whale, I feel I can now hold an opinion on the whole whale hunting issue.

Whale hunting is immoral and should be stopped.

Not because whales are endangered, or because they are living feeling mammals.

No whale hunting should be stopped because the above tastes (and chews) like someone has marinated a piece of chuck steak in fish sauce, coated it in vulcanized rubber, and deep fried it.

It is a disgusting waste of everyone involved's time and Japan should be ashamed.