Food Food EVERYWHERE!!!

Herro Again Everyone,

I feel its time to talk a bit about food. I can at least mention it once or twice, considering Japanese T.V. likes to talk about food on 95% of its shows (There are dramas dedicated to food and dishes are even brought out in the middle of variety shows to be tasted. To which the response is ALWAYS 'oishii' or 'umai' - get used to hearing that).

Just a note to any vegetarians out there, you have to be REALLY specific when you ask if there is meat in something. One of my favorite encounters went something like "is there meat in this?" "no, just cheese and ham".... "..what?" And if the meal description says 'mushroom and tomoato', they may or may not have forgotten to mention the fish they put in.

Anyways, if you walk outside in any city you can see lots of plastic food. Its common for restaurants to display preserved or plastic food outside the restaurant so you can see what you are in for before you enter. Many restaurants have menu's outside as well. BENRI! The photo is of plastic parfaits from hirakata's finest love hotel.

Some other important things to know are that Japanese pizza typically has mayonaise on it - and its delicious! Yeah, I said it.
Also parfaits have corn flakes in them, OISHII !!!!