Trip to Sapporo: Food Frenzy 2

This time I thought we would go to a normal superstore and see what interesting things we could find there. Though this isn't in any way a representative or statistically correct overview of what people buy on average.

The Japanese love their vegetables. While some of us back in Sweden may sometimes struggle to get enough vegetables in our food but almost never go without meat/fish, here people treats vegetables as the thing you never go without. Of course there is almost always fish or meat, but it is not central in the same way.

Natto, fermented soybeans, is a stable diet of the japanese that much foreigners prefer to try only once.  Same for me.

Look at those prices on tofu! 27 yen for 300g, that is 90 yen/kilo (6 SEK/1 USD per kilo)!

Strawberries are still not cheap.

Mushrooms in all forms are popular.

And as mentioned in my blog yesterday, carrots and daikon seems popular, at least here in Hokkaido.

Fish is loved by the Japanese in general, but Hokkaido is also especially known for its fish in Japan.

This is octopus, if you didn't notice.

Birds eggs of different sizes.

Meat *is* also popular, don't be mistaken about that.

Often the meat is neatly arranged.

Onigiri, something I seem to never get used to, it is like the odd candy beans in Harry Potter, I always get flavors that are really not to my taste.

In general, I find that the popular cold green tea on a bottle tastes very much like liquid popcorn, i.e. not good. Give me some good quality and warm green tea any day instead.

Energy drinks are so popular and lots of ads is about them. May it be because of the long japanese working hours?

These kind of noodle packs are quite popular as cheap food and costs between 87 - 120 yen (6-9 SEK / 1 USD) and consists of noodles and some added vegetables or stuff that explains why it costs more than the simple noodle packs at home. I found them to be a very good option for a simple lunch that filled your stomach.

Some gift bags from New Year still left.

Dried fish snacks. Very good.

Icecreams

Wasabi-covered nuts are tasty, as some of you may already know.

Unlike Sweden, but like most other countries in the world, in Japan you can buy your alcohol at the local store. WIth lower taxes this means you can buy a simpler wine for maybe 500 yen (32 SEK/5 USD), i.e. about half the price of Sweden.

They don't have "lådvin" but these 2 litre containers comes close.

Recognize the red little guy from Japanese culture?

When I was young there was this meme that asians perceived westerners as stinky because of all the diary products they ate, but that seems to at least nowadays not be possible because milk products is very much consumed here.

At the counter.