A week before the earthquake, we went out with our Japanese friends, the Futakawas, to a very nice Italian restaurant in Hachinohe. The place was really family-friendly and family-owned. The food at the restaurant was all home-made from fresh ingredients—yum!
Japanese care about food presentation and esthetics. It’s not a myth. Japanese actually make fake dishes out of plastic to present at their restaurant’s window display.
Picture borrowed from Wikipedia.
The coolest thing is that even kids’ meals were all done with such care. Sorry, our camera was not getting good pictures in that lighting.
Their kids’ meals had spaghetti, hamburger (with no bun), some salad, rice, and apples in pudding or something like that.
I wish we could experience more of “non-Americanized” Japanese restaurants. Not being able to read signs and Japanese websites is our problem… Good thing we have Maki and Tatsuya as our friends—they are Japanese and speak great English!
Those food displays are cool! It would make it easier to pick out what you want :)
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