Noms!!

Gonna have to start getting creative with limited food options.  (i.e.: cheap.)  Some things that I expected to be prohibitively expensive (like in America) are actually quite inexpensive in Japan.  For example: quail eggs!  For a sum total of under $5, I made quail egg omelets with onion, phallic mushroom, garlic, and cheddar cheese (thanks mah) served with vine ripened tomato and buttered-sugared toast. 

DELICIOUS.

Yeah, I know, it doesn't look like an omelet.  I consider "scrambled" and "omelet" functional synonyms.  This is also why I'm not a chef.

Something we tried in class the other day was a cold "somen" noodle dip.  There is an entire apparatus dedicated to this summer dish.  The icy water churns counterclockwise, you spear your noodlies, dip 'em in the special sauce, and om nom nom them.


Like fishing for noodles.

Something else I tried recently is salmon and avocado pancakes (!) at the pancake cafe in Omotesando.  Look at how purty it is!!

Tastes better than it looks.

Also, every weekend there is a farmers' market that assembles at the plaza across from AoGaku.  You can get all kinds of delicious vegis and stuff.  This week was something particularly interesting: Himalayan rock salt.

Pink rock salt: delicious.  Black rock salt: not delicious. 

And those are today's strange and fascinating noms!!  Also, in case you were wondering about that massive slab of <$5 salmon I posted last week...I ate all of it.  Raw.  And it was fantastic!!