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⌈ Secret Post #6731 ⌋

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Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

no problem, I love spreading love of Japanese cuisine! especially if it helps planning a trip, Japan is so wonderful to visit.

So, there are "family" yoshoku chains all over the country that are the safest for westerners: Gust (Cafe Gusto) and Royal Host are the biggest and pretty consistent in quality, there's also Ootoya which isn't as widespread. It's like going to Dennys but the food is better. For beef (donburi = rice bowls) you're looking for Yoshinoya and Gyu-kaku. For chicken you want Torikizoku. For ramen, you'll see Ichiran in every youtube but the truth is, Ichiran is where tourists go because they don't know better. Any corner market ramen place with the vending-machine tickets is better than Ichiran.

Eggs is definitely harder. Almost every ramen dish includes them, and you'd have to have some slight ability to speak Japanese to communicate that you'd like the dish without eggs, or else just eat around them. Don't order omurice, obviously. It's not common for most dishes to include egg, so whether it's scrambled egg added to something or a raw egg on top, you'll have to do your due diligence ahead of ordering a specific dish. Menu photos and plastic food displays are accurate, if that helps. In truly hairy situations, have some phrases pre-loaded into a google translate app on your phone and spring them on the wait staff, who can help. It's not like a protein where you know ahead of time whether it's beef, chicken, pork, or fish, egg can pop up in weird places. FTR Japanese eggs are surprisingly safe, if you can mentally get past your blocks. I have an ingrained expectation that raw egg isn't safe but I chanced it at the amazing kaiseki place in Gion, Kyoto because the chef recommended it as a dip for the A5 wagyu and it was incredible. Anyway.

Get familiar with words in english/romaji and kana: egg is tamago, fish is sakana but that's a generic word, you will have a harder time if all fish is labeled by species (salmon/sake, tuna/maguro, and fish with no direct translation like uo). If you don't have time to get gud at reading kana, use a phone translation app that uses the camera to scan photos, you can hold it up to a menu and get an instant look at what's what. Saved my damn bacon (no pun intended) in Sendai when the only lunch place was the Date castle museum cafe on top of Aoba-yama in the snow, we could read the labels on the vending machine instantly and order the most amazing curry-pan I had the entire time. No fish no egg just quick-translated labels on a machine.

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

I'm super late replying to this (I dozed off!) so you probably won't see it, just wanted to say thank you so so much for the thoughtful advice. Have shared it with my partner and we're saving it in a word doc for when we do go!

I've heard some awesome things about curry-pan, it's really high up my wishlist at the moment. Also mochi and taiyaki.

I can read kana and speak conversational Japanese so I'm hoping I'll at least be able to navigate a menu. I'm fully ready to be humbled in practice though! Kanji remains a mystery to me at this point, haha. I'll get there one day hopefully.

Again, thank you so much for your wonderful advice. It's made my whole week and made me even more excited to visit!