Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Kyoto food


I went to a convenience store the night I arrived to get a few things, including this Banana Lassi

This was all the Banana Lassi deserved. It tastes like if banana lollies could go off.

Egg sandwich pringles

wanton soup and curry udon

Coffee bags and milk

microwave meat soup

more peach fanta

The following day I went to a supermarket. Individual beef marrow portions.

Oysters in a plastic tube.

The checkout system here is kind of weird.
You pile your groceries haphazardly into a basket as you do your shop (not pictured)

The cashier at the counter scans all your stuff and puts them into a second basket, taking great care to stack them far more neatly than you put them into the original basket.

You then pay for your groceries at a register, probably the one next to your cashier, but if you only have one or two items and they were scanned quickly and the person who was ahead of you is faffing about, you might end up paying for them over at the spare register off to the side.

You then take the second basket to a nearby bench and transfer the incredibly neatly stacked items into bags to carry them out of the store. These are my bags sitting on the induction cooker once I got back to the apartment.

Taken out of the bags

all these are clockwise from top left: vegetables, salads, spring onion, coffee,  microwave rice, egg omelet, imitation crab,  

honey, soy, olive oil, balsamic, yuzu dressing, juices, fanta, miso, dashi, tofu, pork, curry sauce
middle: root vegetables, dried seaweed

stuff described in the pictures above, assorted rice crackers, chocolate, pickled vegetables, ramen noodles and sauce sachet, toothbrush, toothpaste

a second photo of the back corner from a different angle

the assorted rice crackers

cooking ramen

ramen

curry vegetables

lime flavored gum

that's not gum

mini post it notes

slightly different ramen (the next evening I went out and I got more noodles and a different sauce to use up the leftover pork)

Bulgarian yoghurt



2 comments:

  1. Ooh how were those pringles?

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    1. I mean, they taste as advertised I guess. Not going to rave about them though.

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