Food!

Ohayo gozaimasu (good morning),

Hope you all all well and that you are all enjoying doing your science fair projects, I'm looking forward to hearing about them.  It's the weekend, and I've just been relaxing and wandering around the city.  There are so many shopping arcades to explore!

I hope Will is better.  Sorry to hear about your lamb Talia. 

Niav, you asked about what I'm learning at school.  I do language classes from about 9 til about 3.  And I get heaps of homework!   In my first week I had 3 extra culture classes also (that's when I learnt about tea ceremonies, temples/shrines and Japanese pottery).  In a few weeks, I'll be doing  pop culture classes as well as language classes where I'll be learning about Japanese animations, manga (comic books) and music.  Sometimes I have conversation practice and Japanese writing classes too.

Here is some info about the food I eat:

Cold tofu, with ginger and soysauce.  Very popular.  Yum!

Bitter melon, that gets really gooey when cooked. 
It's in lots of meals here.

It's really popular to have 'onigiri 'for lunch or a snack.  They are trianglar rice balls wrapped in seaweed.  You can get them with fish, chicken, veges, beef inside, but my favourite are the ones with sour plum 'ume boshi' in the middle.





Indian Curry.  It comes with a side salad with tomato and

daikon (a giant Japanese white radish).  Japanese curry is very different.  I'll get a photo for you soon.

Here's some daikon at my local fruit and vege shop.

In the orange baskets are potatoes.



Noodles are popular for dinner.  There's lots of noodle stores, ramen, udon and soba.  In summer you can buy the meals hot or cold.  This is noodles (udon) and seafood and veges that comes cold.



 And of course, there is lots of sushi!  Prawn sushi is my favourite.  Near my school is a zuten sushi restaurant.  (conveyor belt sushi).  The plates are all $1.50 and you just take what you want off the revolving belt.  When your finished a waiter comes and counts up your plates.  Itadakimasu!  (Bon Appetit!)

Below the sushi is fried tofu in a bbq like sause with nori (seaweed) on top and on the bottom right is fried fish in a yummy ginger sauce.

Breakie.  Many Japanese people have salad for breakfast.  Traditionally Japanese people have fish and rice also for breakie.  You can buy cereal and bread in the supermarket and it's getting more popular.  Bread is really sweet here and there is only white in most supermarkets.  Most bags only have 4slices of bread in them.  There is no kitchen here, so I have breakfast out or buy something from the convience store (like pikelets with red bean jam in the middle).

This photo is a 'set meal' which came with a coffee, salad, warm croissant and yoghurt with jam in the middle.  A funny combination!  It cost about $5.00

I'll tell you all about snacks, drinks and confectionary in another blog.
Have a great day,
Jaa mata,
Amelia