Many small chain of Japanese restaurants, you select what you want to eat and pay at the vending machine. The machine give you a ticket and you take it to the counter. That is how you order.
Have you ever seen the system like this anywhere?
By doing this, the shop employee would never handle cash and there is no crime to hold up the restaurant either.
Gagi no Tsuki is one of the most well know Japanese sweets from Sendai 仙台 area. The sponge and custard cream is wonderful and sweet. One of our staff just came back rom Sendai and brought me this. It is good thing that I only got one.
This is what you might expect for full course lunch or dinner at Japanese restaurant or Hotel (Ryokan). Japanese full course often includes some Western dishes that are arrange for Japanese taste.
This is a 5,000 yen lunch at Novotel Hotel in Kosuhien.
Japanese people like Anthropomorphism ... or representing things that are non-living things by cute living characters. What character you like in Japan?
When I travel to Japan on business, I try to bring back OMUSUBU from the convenient stores to the US. You cannot bring any meat products from Japan to the US, but seafoods are fine. I buy over 50 OMUSUBI every time and people in my office love them.
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