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Here is how desperate Stephen and I are for some cheese... we'll even go for Safeway, off-brand Velveeta...

And fruit! An apple is about Y300... ONE apple! ($3.00 / £1.50). Oh how I took those Washington apple's for granted!

What I HAVE been eating... It is not polite to turn down a dish when offered. And in my further attempts to avoid looking like a COMPLETE gaijin... here is the list of things that I have never had before, but have had in the past 8 days:

~Raw Ahi tuna (weird texture with a strange taste--Stephen really likes ahi...and I was expecting something much different)
~Octopus (I had a horrid fish taste in my mouth that even whiskey couldn't take away!)
~Shrimp (quite nice actually)
~Pasta looking things that were made out of some sort of fish (like pasta, except much more chewy...like a rubber band)
~Little fish (like a mackerel?) complete with heads and tails and bones (oh! I just shiver thinking about those!)

My favourite dish is called Ocha Zuke. Rice in a bowl with a piece of grilled salmon, a pickled plum, bit of cabbage, over which green tea is poured. Brilliant! It is my new Ploughman's!

One cuisine motif that Stephen is very fond of: Eggs... steamed, runny, hard-boiled, grilled... ON TOP OF EVERYTHING!!

Stephen is moving out a few notches on his belt...while I keep tightening mine. Must learn to read menus in katagama/kanji so that I can end up with something I would eat!

Dried apples would work also! AND that Cheese-in-a-Tube stuff.... !
-rebekah