Episode 11 Big Blog Adventure - Food worse than Veggie

(It seems appropriate that this post should be about food given the veggie update in the last one)

Japanese food is the stuff of legend so the Blogs were keen to sample all that the country had to offer. That is, until we were handed our "Bento boxes" on a coach trip from a mountain railway to a tea plantation.

Our guide, Eric, was quickly tucking in and savouring the contents whilst offering helpful advice like,

"There's a whole fish in here, you can eat all of the fish, the head and everything!"

Mr Blog opened his box slowly and sure enough found a whole, dead, cold fish looking back at him. Next to it was a section of the box filled with what looked like red crisps with nigella seeds (but without  his reading glasses on, Mr Blog was only 90% sure). Next to this was a collection of translucent crunchy noodles with sesame seeds, something that looked like a shrivelled kiwi fruit and a rice ball.

Mr Blog munched and crunched and only later found out,

1. the red crisps were shrimps (the seeds were there eyes)
2. the translucent noodles were whitebait (the seeds were their eyes)
3. the shrivelled kiwi fruit was a salted plum that made your face pucker up to half its normal size, and
4. the rice ball was a ball of cold rice
5. Mrs Blog didn't eat very much

Had he known then of the delights of Tofu Chilli without chilli, Mr Blog might have gone vegetarian before arriving at the tea plantation.