I spent the last 2 days taking in as many food areas as I could as well as eating as many free samples as possible because, as I have discovered
JAPAN IS FREE SAMPLE HEAVEN. Think Costco on steroids, then multiply it by 1,000 wooden toothpicks. As many of you know, my affection/affliction for free
samples goes way back to my dear papa-san who, if given the opprotunity to have lunch on a plate or a toothpick, might opt for the latter. So, in search of said samples, I went to the basements of 3 departments stores in the last 24 hours. A word on Japanese department stores: Most are at least 10 floors, many in Tokyo option for 15-20. Generally speaking, the basements of the department stores are the fancy, prepared food s, and grocery areas. By fancy, I mean you can pick up 2 cantalopes for $40 (and up!!!),
French obsessed foods, and a crazy arra
y of gelatenized food products, many of which have items suspended with in. These fancy foods carry the fancy prices that everyone talks about when they say Japan is uber-expensive. For the rest of us, there's the prepared food area where one can pick up a bento box, yaki-tori, dumpling, or just about anything else you can think of. After that, there's the groc
ery store, rather upscale from what we expect, but, along with the prepared items, you can pretty much eat yer way through the area for less that 1 yen.
samples goes way back to my dear papa-san who, if given the opprotunity to have lunch on a plate or a toothpick, might opt for the latter. So, in search of said samples, I went to the basements of 3 departments stores in the last 24 hours. A word on Japanese department stores: Most are at least 10 floors, many in Tokyo option for 15-20. Generally speaking, the basements of the department stores are the fancy, prepared food s, and grocery areas. By fancy, I mean you can pick up 2 cantalopes for $40 (and up!!!),
French obsessed foods, and a crazy arra
y of gelatenized food products, many of which have items suspended with in. These fancy foods carry the fancy prices that everyone talks about when they say Japan is uber-expensive. For the rest of us, there's the prepared food area where one can pick up a bento box, yaki-tori, dumpling, or just about anything else you can think of. After that, there's the groc
ery store, rather upscale from what we expect, but, along with the prepared items, you can pretty much eat yer way through the area for less that 1 yen.
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