It’s been a while, but i’ve finally making another trip back to Japan. This will be one of the more interesting trips to Japan I will be taking, and unlike any other ones that have occurred before. For one I’ll be renting a place. The last couple times I’ve been lucky enough to be able to stay at a friends place, but this time my luck as run out. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, but its going to hamper some convinces that I had before. Since I don’t speak Japanese, and understand very little I think this will be a big challenge for me. I of course will have my personal translator with me, but it wont be all the time.
Secondly, this will is going to be my first “touristy” type trip. The last couple times I have been I never really did the tourist thing. It is one of the pet peeves I have about traveling, is avoid the touristy stuff. I really hate tourist in my city, and I feel that maybe other locals would feel the same way, even if they are in a foreign country. I won’t be going really extreme on this front, but I will be traveling outside of Tokyo more. I’m going to be inside Japan longer than I have been before so I’m hoping this extra time there will give me an opportunity to see a lot more.
This blog has always been about food, and like before I’m going to try to blog about the unique food experiences that I have had. This time however, I’m going to try and blog about every single piece of food that I have eaten here. The last few times I had chosen a specific topic to focus on during my stay. Last time is was conbini store foods, and before that it was fine dining. This time I’m going to try and strike a balance between the two.
I will also be looking more at traditional Japanese foods. The last few times I had been in Japan, I don’t really think I was eating that many “Japanese” food items. Sure I had some great international food which I don’t think I could get anywhere else, but I don’t remember eating that much Japanese food. I find this kind of strange because I regularly cook it at home. I hope that when I do get to try these foods in their native country that I will gain a better reference point to replicate the flavors that I have try so hard to get right. When I cook Japanese food, I feel like I’m always missing something, it’s not so obvious to me right now what that thing is, but I know is not there.
So for anyone who actually reads this blog I hope that you will enjoy my daily updates with plenty of pictures. The first in this series will be SFO airport food and the food on ANA during my trip to Japan.
