Alaisha
momoxhime
lolwtf, that's totally untrue.
you can get all vegetables here, most you can think of and more, and they're CHEAP. like rlycheap. fruit too, you can buy a great bunch of bananas for 99yen at one of my local stores. and all very good quality.
meat is expensive, though. and mince is never really beef, it's always combined with some other meat. but you can get most meat, except lamb.
there's plenty of dairy products, I personally love strawberry milk and there's yoghurts too, especially lots of ones for babies.
butter is kinda scarce, and expensive, because it's not used often, margarine is cheaper and more easily available.
there's regular cheese too, lol XD
and mcdonalds has the same stuff as any other country, they just have shrimp and tofu burgers too. and mcdonalds is hella better quality that the ones in the UK, I usually hate mcdonalds, but japanese one is yummy.
there's kfc, mr doughnut, panda express, etc too, and all better than the western version I'm sure.
there's also wa~y too much yummy junk food. D;
and harajuku has tons of stalls selling delicious crepes filled with random stuff + cream.
mmm I'd say fish isn't really the main food, but rice.
rice/noodles, then veg/fruit/etc, then meat, then fish.
because that goes in order of price.
meat and fish is expensive, in my flat we eat meat maybe 2, 3 times a week, fish hardly ever because it's so expensive D;
Meat is about the same, but seems to go on sale more often lol.
I'm sure families eat differently, but I think young people living on their own eat similar to me & my friends.
you can get all vegetables here, most you can think of and more, and they're CHEAP. like rlycheap. fruit too, you can buy a great bunch of bananas for 99yen at one of my local stores. and all very good quality.
meat is expensive, though. and mince is never really beef, it's always combined with some other meat. but you can get most meat, except lamb.
there's plenty of dairy products, I personally love strawberry milk and there's yoghurts too, especially lots of ones for babies.
butter is kinda scarce, and expensive, because it's not used often, margarine is cheaper and more easily available.
there's regular cheese too, lol XD
and mcdonalds has the same stuff as any other country, they just have shrimp and tofu burgers too. and mcdonalds is hella better quality that the ones in the UK, I usually hate mcdonalds, but japanese one is yummy.
there's kfc, mr doughnut, panda express, etc too, and all better than the western version I'm sure.
there's also wa~y too much yummy junk food. D;
and harajuku has tons of stalls selling delicious crepes filled with random stuff + cream.
mmm I'd say fish isn't really the main food, but rice.
rice/noodles, then veg/fruit/etc, then meat, then fish.
because that goes in order of price.
meat and fish is expensive, in my flat we eat meat maybe 2, 3 times a week, fish hardly ever because it's so expensive D;
Meat is about the same, but seems to go on sale more often lol.
I'm sure families eat differently, but I think young people living on their own eat similar to me & my friends.
If the fruit in Japan is cheaper than where you're from I don't want to know about it. I was shocked at prices for fruit in Japan, a single apple there cost as much as kilo of apples in the grocery stores here in the Netherlands. Not to mention the fact that Japanese have a habit of stocking unripe fruit in the grocery stores, apparently they prefer their pears not juicy and sweet, I asked a Japanese friend about it and she commented that the fruit looks better that way as ripe fruit is often a bit bruised. Some vegetables were cheap, mainly cabbage and onions but sweet peppers were insanely expensive, lettuce was pretty expensive too and didn't look too good most of the time.
Meat wasn't that expensive where I lived, not much more expensive than it is here and fish was typically more expensive than meat. Besides, I always used to go to the grocery store in the evening and get the meat for half price because it was the last day they could sell, so I just stocked up and put it in the freezer. razz
well perhaps the netherlands has fantastic fruit and veg for dirt cheap, but in the UK we do not.
sweet peppers are expensive because they're imported and lettuce is a bit expensive but to be honest people don't eat it that often, at least nobody I know. People tend to eat cabbage, carrots and daikon for salad, all of which are very cheap. But even lettuce is still much MUCH better quality and much cheaper than those in the UK. Feel sorry for the british.
As for apples, in Japan I can buy a bunch of good apples for 100-200 yen, in britian they taste worse, are smaller and a bag costs the equivalent of about 200-400 yen.
Where I live, if I wait until after 10/11pm when stuff is on sale, it goes really fast so I usually cant get what I want.
