Then, there's tonkatsu. We were taken to Marugo at Akihabara. I looked at the menu and shuddered. Every line contained 'pork' in different cuts of hire, rosu, etc. I'm like, is there 'yasai-katsu' instead?! But I had forgotten to tell this bunch of friends about my dietary preferences and since the friends were being hospitable, it wasn't to be done to request to go somewhere else. In this way, the focus isn't exactly about the food, but more of the company, so I don't really care.
I understand this tonkatsu restaurant is immensely popular and there's always a queue to get in simply because it's a tiny tiny place. So pork lovers, you'll definitely like this eatery. The other friends who weren't doing the same thing as me, going 'oiishhiiiii!' at every other bite. Heh.
I palmed off as much meat as possible to the bff and other friends, and buried the rest under the rice. I really do not want to eat meat during this period. Luckily they had some fun side dishes to nibble on, along with beautiful steamed white rice, and most importantly, beer. Beer at lunch rocks. I can always eat something else again at tea. Like onigiri. Heheheheh.
But after these meals, I gently put my foot down at future tonkatsu, yakitori and yakiniku places. These eateries specialize in their respective cooking methods and use of ingredients and rarely offer anything else aside from the touted meats on the menu. It's not exactly friendly for a number of us non-meat eaters.
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Is Tokyo pretty vegetarian-unfriendly then?
dawn: not really. there're plenty of choices, as long as you don't step into a tonkatsu, ramen and yakitori place. their eateries specialize in the 1 thing they do well, offering no others. but the only problem, you might have to speak some sort of japanese to make yourself understood. their english isn't very optimal. but for alot of the basic stock, they use fish stock and fish dashi. just ask for miso soup using mushroom dashi. :) or seaweed.
I didn't realise they had mushroom daishi!
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