Re: japan advice?

August 29, 2009

Hi, Dana,

This will be tough because most Japanese foods include soy and sugar in the

sauces. Many restaurants serve the food on rice or noodles. Many of the

Western-style foods are breaded. If you are traveling with someone who speaks

Japanese, you might be able to ask for some special arrangements. Otherwise I

think I would try to mostly go to burger places and get a burger without a bun

and also buy nuts to eat if you can eat them. Raw fish (sashimi not

sushi--sushi always has rice) would be legal, but expensive. Many Japanese

restaurants specialize in one type of food. It's a descriptive link:

The okonomiyaki that you grill yourself would be a good choice, but I never even

saw a restaurant like that when I was there. I did go someplace where a group

of us grilled and the style was called Jengis Kan (Genghis Khan) but again I

only saw that one restaurant of that type.

One good thing about Japanese restaurants is that they generally have plastic

mock-ups of the dishes, with prices, displayed in their windows and so you can

know what the restaurant serves before you go in.

Another thing to note is that there are supermarkets in the basements of

department stores, in many cases. You might find something to eat in these, as

well as in convenience stores. I ran across fresh food markets (like farmers'

markets) just walking around in cities (best to ask where at your hotel) and

that would be great for your fruits and veggies, but I think protein is going to

be problematic.

, mom to

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> Hi everyone! About to take a 2 week trip to Japan...and i can pack produce

(limited, not much will last longer than a week) and I can bring nuts & dried

fruit & tuna packs & olives ( all legal, of course) and probiotics... But I cant

take enough for two full weeks! Any advice on eating there?

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