Pekopeko :: Food, Food, and More Food

Warning: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Thar be foodporn ahead.

Let me introduce y'all to a term that basically defines my entire life: べつばら (betsubara). The betsu is from べつべつ, meaning separate, and the bara means stomach. Loosely translated, betsubara means separate stomach (for dessert...or another meal, etc). 

Went to a small cafe on Friday with Thaddeus and David after lunch at Sukiya (I had curry rice there, and it was delicious). Ordered a strawberry cake parfait, and it was absolute perfection.

Matcha ice cream, matcha cake, and strawberry cake parfait

Some type of noodle. I think it's called omatsu? Nevertheless, it was delicious.

Promptly after the curry rice, the dessert, and the noodles, I went home and had sushi. べつばら、べつばら. My favorites were the squid, scallop, and amai (sweet shrimp) sushi.

Lunch on the first day of the Noto trip! There was sukiyaki, miso soup, udon, and various pickled things. 

Matcha and wagashi at the best ryokan in Japan, Kagaya ryokan (there will be a post about this later)

Green tea

Seafood salad, and appetizers (boiled plum, hairy Mozoku-seaweed, turban-shell with tartar sauce, steamed whiting, egg jelly, shrimp, and fried broad bean)

Sashimi! It had sea bass, sea bream, tuna, shrimp, squid, and sea urchin (my first time eating sea urchin and it was amazing)

Tenpura! Note the huge shrimp. Why doesn't America have huge shrimp?

Nakajima-leaf udon

Japanese bouillabaisse

Mochi! (Green tea and red bean)

Some type of pudding? Or jelly? Not sure, but it was delicious.

Pickled cucumber, radish, and eggplant

Sushi rice with egg, crab, cucumber, and salmon mixed in

Fried squid

Fried fish. What kind of fish? No clue.

Radish salad with tomatoes and cucumber picked from my host family's garden

Yakitori

Stay tuned for blog posts on the Noto trip (whose food is pictured here), an update on class, and more! Thanks for reading, and DFTBA!