Eating Japan

I plan to eat Japan. All of it. And chances are I won't have all that much choice, since finding any (using typical foreigner talk here) NORMAL FOOD is impossible. But obviously in my first week, any rice or noodle dishes were a new experience and there was a hell of a lot I hadn't tried.

On my first Friday, we managed to get a phone set up for me. I was INSANELY happy. And that literally has been the internet I've only had in my flat since I got here. Hopefully that will change soon. But yes, so while my phone was getting set up, my supervisor took me for tea out at an Okonomiyaki restaurant.

It had the wee hot plate on the middle and the whole experience amused me greatly. It's like a pancake type thing you make with cabbage and stuff, looks weird as anything when it arrives, but it was brilliant.

Cooking the pork first... with that bowl of weird looking stuff.

Then we mixed said weird looking stuff up and put it on the table.. and pork on top

Then flipping it over another time (poor pork was a bit overdone haha)

and with some seaweed flakes, dried bonito and lots of Okonomiyaki sauce, it was GREAT

And phones are extremely expensive in Japan. Just want to put that out there... BUT totally worth it, unless I don't actually have unlimited internet of course... Then I might be out on the streets...