Beef intestines: Personally not a huge favourite of mine. Extremely squishy texture, hard to chew, and not huge amounts of flavour. If you weren’t told what it was you’d probably think it was a little weird. Having being told what it was you would conclude it is still a little weird.

Beef Tongue: Similar with the intestines, it is tastier when you don’t know what it is. Without the thought of a cow tongue on your tongue, its texture is similar to bacon and you can’t go too wrong with bacon. Conclusion: Still weird.

SUSHI: I had never tried sushi before coming to Japan. The closest I have come to eating sushi was having under cooked chicken with rice in Nepal, uncooked fish and uncooked chicken is slightly different. I had an incredible first sushi experience. On the list was Salmon, Fish eggs, Eel, Sardine, Mackerel, Bonito and tuna. There were some interesting options, the eel and sardine being a couple of them but the salmon melted in your mouth and tasted as good as it looked.

Tempura: A battered and deep fried dish. Prawn, pumpkin and sweet potato tempura was offered and it was incredible. Google has informed me this is actually a classical Portuguese dish made popular by the Japanese, and I can see why! By far my favourite so far I think.

Gyoza: Pork dumplings, from what they tasted like. Really tasty, unfortunately it brought back Nepali memories of when I ate 50 in one sitting and it didn’t end well. Wonderful for most people but weird memories for myself.

Chicken Katsu Curry: I don’t need to write much about this, it speaks for itself. If I could eat this everyday I would. It’s basic but beyond wonderful and I love it.

Salad: Excluding the the green thing in a burger, eating salad as a dish was a new experience. Every lunch at work I now have a small bowl of salad. It looks similar to the western style and I’m sure it tastes similar but this doesn’t mean I like it. Conclusion; I still don’t understand why people choose to eat this weird blend of grass thing.

Cheers for reading,

KP