So it has been over a week in Japan, and I still haven't had time to mention what's really been going on, but I'm catching up.
When I came to Japan I had the thought that I was going to hate all the food and was going to have a very difficult time with meals and finishing them to be polite. When I arrived I wanted to tell the family things that I wouldn't eat but to not be rude about it, which I thought was impossible so I thought I was going to be stuck eating everything.
But luckily my host family is so accommodating, and also I told them things that I didn't like during normal conversation so that it wasn't rude to do it at something like dinner time.
However, I figured I would pick my battles and not list everything since if I did that there might not be anything left to eat. So first I told them that I would like to eat similar portions to what the kid eats. Japanese really can eat a lot, so I want to make sure I can finish what I am given. For food, I just told them that I don't like shrimp and that I don't want to eat things with faces attached. Unfortunately I didn't mention mushrooms and it's too late now since almost every meal has mushrooms in them, and mushrooms are terrible.
But I have had a bunch of different meals. There has been lots of variety. Last night was non-instant ramen which is extremely good. The night before that we went out to a restaurant which was western styled and I had some kind of pork with a blueberry-containing sauce that was good. Before that, I had italian - some kind of alfredo pasta. I also had chinese one night with dumplings. One night even had something named hambugu, as opposed to hamburger, as they have both. Hambugu is something like hamburger meat with other things added into the patty like onions, and with cheese in the middle. So it's some sort of hamburger-meatloaf combination that is really tasty, but isn't eaten like a sandwich but like meatloaf, bunless.
As for japanese food of course their has been a lot and I guess I would say I like it the least but that it's not horrifying but just boring in comparison. Oh, and that too often the japanese food I have had has been a bit too soft in texture. To the point where the consistency is the gross thing, not the taste. I would say the worst food I have had to put up with so far is mushrooms and tofu. Both are edible but not really fun to eat.
One Japanese food that I did like was hot soba. soba is a type of japanese noodles among many types, and it's either eaten cold or hot as a soup. The hot soba soup I had had a flavor of cinnamon so it was pretty good.
Tonight for dinner we had some salad, which we have from time to time and it's just any normal salad. Then some soup with those damn mushrooms. Then potato salad! Then also a bowl of rice which is common for side dishes here, and some sort of noodle imitation dish which was sliced carrots and the root of some plant. It was alright. But the main dish was a fried chicken of sorts. Something between KFC and chinese. It was good.
As for Japanese food overall, while I haven't had this at my house yet, I have had katsu and tempura elsewhere. Those are two kinds of deep-frying for meat. So, basically it means that they must be my favorite japanese food.
Also, all japanese snacks and drinks are good. Which means there is a lot that is great tasting over here, but that a bunch of it is just junk food.
Oh, also, chopsticks. Lots of chopsticks use. I'm bad with chopsticks but I have improved to the point where it's usually not a big deal unless dealing with noodles as those things are as slippery as possible.
Lastly, I still haven't gotten around to putting my pictures online to show, or posted anything about daily adventures, but I do have a video I took when I walked through my house when the family was away which only happened that once.
The last room that I was in is my room. That's a matress on the floor, not a futon. They eventually bought a bed frame for me, although it's a mini one so I'm only like 2 feet off the ground. It's comfortable either way.
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