Originally Posted by
ksandness
Yes, I tend to save my ventures into hardcore traditional Japanese cuisine for times when clients are paying, when I'm out on the town with fellow translators, or when I'm staying in a ryokan.
Plebeian Japanese food is so wonderful that I can easily subsist on it for days at a time.
+1,000! Once of my favorite "plebian" pleasures is actually Soup Stock Lobster Bisque with the rice - OMG the rice here is so much better than other places - and even at cheap places like SS you get really good quality food for next to nothing!