Originally Posted by
5khours
Just getting back to the OP. Here's the checklist I would make if I were visiting Japan as a tourist not necessarily in order.
1. Power breakfast
2. Kaiseki
3. A couple of contemporary Japanese restaurants
4. Tonkatsu
5. Soba
6. Nice French
7. Ramen
8. Nice Italian
9. Sushi
10. Chinese
11. Yakitori
12. Japanese breakfast
That was pretty much my list with a few exceptions.
The Yakitori. Which I added during this thread.
The Chinese - and the Italian. Wouldn't mind good Chinese food (we have awful Chinese restaurants where we live and haven't had decent Chinese food since we were in Los Angeles a couple of years ago). As for Italian - maybe. I'm a better than decent Italian cook. Moreover - the room service menu at the hotel had some excellent pasta dishes when we were there (one with uni - outrageously good
). We may do room service once or twice if we're tired at night. So I'll see - do a bit more reading. The one thing I'm not going to do again is try spaghetti with a mayo based sauce. Did that on the first trip - and once is enough
.
Will definitely have Japanese breakfast (breakfast is included in our room rate - and Japanese breakfast is one of the options). What's a "power breakfast"? Robyn