Eating in Japan...

[alwaysmine]

Pocky comes in just about any flavor. Me and my brother hit up our local asian market for their junk food and came out with one of every flavor we could find. We had to get a basket to carry them all... Strawberry, peach, black sesame, soy bean, pizza, you name it. My favorite was mellon, but the tomato and peach went very well together.

[AJBryant]

Pocky's good, but Fran is my favorite.

Fran? Do you mean "flan"?


Tony

[Katana]

I've never had anything that was really from Japan....like i still don't know what Pocky is.... i never really understand anything, so oblivious _-_

[ShikenkanBebii]

Fran? Do you mean "flan"?

Well, it's called 'Fran' in Japan, but with the pronounciation, it would sound like "flan" anyway.

[Shibakoen]

AJBryant wrote:
Fran? Do you mean "flan"?
Tony

Ha! No, not a flan... That is if you're refering to those "creme caramel" things. Fran is just like Pocky, but I think it's better. There are these things called "More Fran" which is like Pocky, but the "dipped" part is much thicker. I think what's-his-name... you know, the Real Madrid footballer... the one married to the hot Spice girl... anyway, I think he was a spokesman for Fran.

[keatonatron]

They do have flan here. It comes in a little fruit cup looking thing with this suction system, so you open the top, flip it over, and press this little button then *presto* it plops out with the sauce on top all correct-like.

I've never heard of sheep lips and all that jazz in Japan... 99% of the stuff eaten raw is seafood. I've had snails, and the normal sushi and sushimi style stuff (octopus, various fish, eel). I'd say the rarest non-seafood thing I've eaten raw was horse. It was delicous! My favorite type of sushimi :p

At yaki-niku my favorites are intestines and cow tongue. But you cook those before eating them.

[hiraikotsu]

mmm... my fav Fran is the blueberry yoghurt coated ones... yummy...
i recently went to a jap restaurant serving kaminabe.. it's a paper boat filled with soup, raw beef, veggies etc, with a small fire below the boat, but amazingly, the paper doesn't catch fire... cool...

[shikamarufoo]

Flan sounds better then pocky, gonna see if I can find one around here in Seattle.

[keatonatron]

Flan or Pocky? Flan should be really easy to find. If you want pocky, go to Uwajimaya. It's on 5th ave I think.

[Infidel]

That's how it's spelled!

My friend kept telling me about this great place in seattle, Owaijimai. I searched and told him he must be spelling it wrong. I tried a few alternate spellings, but he was mangling it bad. Now that I see it spelled correctly I can sorta see how he was pronunciating it that way. Kinda, sorta, maybe.

[Samusai]

I've heard of Uwajimaya　before. You can get all sorts of good stuff there. But I cant get jack where I live. No no, what we need is another bar and another bank. In my town of Missoula, there are 18 bars and 23 different banks. God knows why. I have to travel to Spokane, WA to buy shoes.

[keatonatron]

Wait--I thought you lived in Godzilla's lair.

[Shibakoen]

shikamarufoo wrote:
Flan sounds better then pocky, gonna see if I can find one around here in Seattle.

Flan or Fran?? Now you guys are confusing me...

Fran: Pocky-like dipped cookie thing. Very tasty!

Flan: Also called "Creme-Caramel", is kinda like vanilla jello. Ugh, nasty stuff...

[AJBryant]

Fran: Pocky-like dipped cookie thing. Very tasty!

Oh, yeah! The Pokki rip-off!

I forgot about that. :p

Tony

[ShikenkanBebii]

I love the strawberry chunk and vanilla milk Fran. It's sooooo good. I tried the chestnut and chocolate one, but I wasn't a big fan of it since I don't really like nuts that much. Has anyone ever tried that reverse Pocky? I haven't been able to find any of that here (but luckily I did happen to come across the regular Pocky at a Suncoast store). I had a bottle of kiwi Ramune(I'd love to try the strawberry and melon flavors) and it was really good. The little marble in the bottle is quite entertaining when I'm sitting in Spanish class with nothing to do:p