The food so far

Since I have been in Japan I have tried a variety of different foods. A lot of the time I am still unclear about what I am eating. On my way to Nagoya I got a small bento box from the subway station and it turned out to taste pretty bad. In most cases the writing is in Japanese so I can’t read it and the people that sell the food don’t speak English. So I basically go for what looks good. I also do try to eat foods that look foreign to me. I do this because if I know what a food is it means I can probably get it back in the states. So I try to be a little adventurous. A few of the different foods I have eaten are: beef buns (which are Chinese), Ramen noodles, udon noodles, soba noodles (cold and hot), yakitori, sushi, dumplings, Japanese pizza, rice balls, sweet rice dumplings, and some other things that I don’t know the names of. The pizza is interesting because they put lots of stuff on it that you just wouldn’t see in the states. I tasted a seafood pizza that had all sorts of fish on it. I would name all the fish but I don’t know what they were. I did have to remove a piece of squid though because I couldn’t eat that on the pizza. I really like the noodles. I have had cold noodles and hot noodles. I like them both it just depends on the day. The noodles are a very refreshing food to eat. The interesting thing is that they often put half of a partially boiled egg (the egg white is solid and the yoke is partially solid) in the hot soups. I’m not really a desert person at all but thus far I have been unimpressed by any of the desserts in Japan. There are sweet rice balls that seem to be popular but I don’t think they are good. I have found myself simply going to convenience stores and getting hagen dazz (is that how I spell it?)