We are surviving and finding our way around Kobe AND the supermarkets.
I am finding food ingredients that we have back home - general baking needs are here although I wanted malt vinegar, sugar and cornflour for my pav - the sugar turned out to be salt !( later found the sugar) and cornflour was potato flour/starch, (later found cornflour also) and used white vinegar . What you can't get in Japan, I can get or order through Foriegn Buyers Club or Price Club. These companies have imported things or will import anything you want from your country.
Someone bought an Australian leg of lamb for us and I cooked a Kiwi dinner for 8, including a pav with strawberries on top! Strawberries were about $6 for a small punnett. Yummie lamb -and the guests were great company as well! Kiwi/Australian/Japanese/US friends!
I attended a Japanese cooking class today and learnt how to make 4 or 5 dishes ! We were then taken to the supermarket to find the ingredients for these which was very helpful. I am finding that taking photos of things on my cellphone helps me to find/remember what I want! .. and I can also show this to Japanese supermarket staff and they show me where things are !! Works great.! Sign language helps too!! haha.
Generally we can eat like we do in NZ if we want - I shop around for meat and buy that in bulk an freeze in meal lots. Veges are expensive too but you can find bargains when you know where to look. 1/4 buttercup pumpkin can be anything from $3-$4 but this random place I found the other day had a whole one for that much. I was so pleased to find that as Bruce and I love pumpkin soup.
I loved the Japanese dishes I made - so will probably eat a lot more of these!
We have been to other peoples places for meals or out for meals so are getting a taste of all sorts of dishes! Yum!
No comments:
Post a Comment