While having something called shabu shabu (meat and cabbage boiled in tea), I realized that I like internal organs. Eww gross!! How dramatically my food tastes have acclimated to Japanese food. Let's relive my 6 month food adventure full of exciting things like horse, whale, internal organs and rawness.July/August - No fish or seafood. My favorite food was karagge (fried chicken) and Kumamoto ramen (ramen). SHOCK: Wow, I can actually eat this food.
September - Only small amounts of cooked seafood. My favorite food was karashi renkon (fried lotus root and horse radish) and hachimittsu toasto (honey toast). DOUBLE SHOCK: I ate internal organs and liked it.
October - Cooked seafood is good. My favorite food is taiyaki (sweet red beans in a pancake-ish wrapper) and miso soup. SHOCK: I ate octopus.
November - I LOVE cooked fish and most cooked seafood. My favorite food is miso soup. SHOCK: I ate raw horse.
December - I can eat raw fish in small amounts. My favorite food is school lunch :) and caraimo (sweet potato). DOUBLE SHOCK: I ate whale and it's an endangered species.
January - My favorite food is nabe (hotpot). I am tired of miso soup. I still can't eat raw seafood. TRIPLE SHOCK: The one thing I had to throw away (or throw up) at school lunch IN 6 MONTHS was just hot mochi (ball of ground rice; that's it) in soup. WHAT!?
