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Japanese Food posts from Japan, gathered on Discoveries.

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In Japan, every department store has a basement.

Most visitors arrive in Japan with a list: temples, sushi, neon nights.

$2.

Midnight In Japan, you can get a hot beef bowl at 2 AM.

In Japan, many ramen shops have no waiters.

In Japan you can eat dinner in a booth

In Japan you can eat dinner in a booth designed so no one ever looks at you. One seat. A small curtain. A wall on each side. You order by ticket. A pair of hands slides the food t…

In Nagoya, you order one coffee.

In Japan, sushi can cost $1.

In Japan, a plate of sushi can cost one dollar and still arrive fresher than what many countries sel…

Americans hear “raw egg on rice” and recoil.

In Japan, they will hand you a raw egg and tell you to eat it. Then it will become the best thing yo…

That broth looks like it is full of cream. There is not a drop of dairy in it.

Every evening, one of Japan’s happiest little traditions begins.

There are places in Japan where the best meal of your day costs less than a coffee.

In Japan, the most surprising thing about delicious food isn’t always the taste.

In Japan, train stations sell meals in boxes.

Airport food.

In America, the refrigerator has two doors,

In Tokyo there’s a tiny bakery

In Nagoya, a $4 coffee can come with breakfast.

Most steak, you chew.

In Osaka, lunch for two can still cost ten dollars.

Every evening, one of Japan’s happiest little traditions begins.

Wait — this bubbling, golden cheese dish costs about two dollars?

The best dollar you’ll ever spend might be sitting on a shelf in a Japanese convenience store.

Most countries can’t have beautiful things in public.

Americans probably freeze the second they see this.

I was just eating at my usual ramen spot when the guy next to me accidentally turned dinner into a f…

A Michelin-honored ramen shop with only twelve seats — and a bowl costs about eight dollars.

Midnight.

☕ Packed for the American road Swipe for gear →

1600W. Japan plug. American machines. TESSAN voltage converter

ChatGPT on your wrist. Ten days. Swim with it. AOC watch

20ms. The game hears you first. AOC headphones

A 15.6" second screen. One cable. AOC monitor · Black

11.5 feet of glow. The TV looks expensive. AOC video light

Wireless. 75 percent. The board that follows you. CHERRY keyboard

Falcon. Tactile. The click you chose. CHERRY switch

Sony sensor. You stop looking like a hostage. AOC webcam