Itadakimasu!

Sashiburi. I apologize for the long delay but from here on I shall share with everyone my Japan food excursions and attempt to describe them. But words just don't do it justice. Basically Japan has this magical power to take something ordinary and make it 20x better. We all know this already but I'm just making sure we're all on the same page, so just in case you didn't know, America sucks. Yea yea people say Japan is expensive but I am here to show you the snacks and street food I have experienced that are CHEAP since I am a CHEAP person. Ok enough talking, no one wants to read this anyways, it's all about the pictures...

Miruku pan aka MILK bread.  This is a delicious sweet bread with a milk-ish cream filling.

I think the pack was around $1.

Left - I'm assuming they are Garlic flavored from the tiny little flaming garlic in the bottom right...but the bag just says "Heart Chips"....

Right - Chizu Poteto...literally translated to CHEESE POTATO.  I don't think you can see but they are advertising the little specks of cheese you can see on the chips...yay?

Both around $1.50

Yea for some reason I'm a fan of chips...they're cheap, easy to eat, and tasty.

Left - Wasabi and shoyu chips...just as the title says is how it tastes...very interesting and surprisingly good.

Right - Chizu Bito is what it says...basically light fluffy crisps flavored with..cheese...

ON SALE for 98円...which is a little over $1.

Uhh corn pottage chips?  Whatever that means...and don't be fooled by their looks, they were not cheese puffs.

I think like about $1 too.

Konyaku...I thought it was dango at first...but it definitely is not.  My host mom and dad failed to explain every well so I just wikipedia'd it.  All I got out of them was "like potato" and "0 calories".  It's like what those sukiyaki noodles are made of...they're like jelly with almost a squid texture...very strange.

But it was fresh and only 100円 at the Sakura-Matsuri!

This is one of the many examples of the Japanese taking something ordinary and making it amazing.  This is Strawberry Pudding...but the pudding is more firm than the pudding we know.  And it's STRAWBERRY flavor...and trust me Japanese Strawberry is VERY DIFFERENT from the American so-called "strawberry" flavor...

Around $1 too.

This sandwich is filled with chicken karaage.  See what I mean?  The Japanese have crazy ideas!  This sandwich was average compared to other Japanese food but GREAT compared to American junk.  Well for the price that is...and this is CONVENIENCE STORE FOOD.  Like 7-11 kind.  

And only around $2.50.

Here's another Karaage sandwich from the same convenience store...but better.  I think the other one had too much bread and over-powered the actual chicken.  This one was good.  

And around same price of $2.50.

When I saw this, the packaging makes it look appetizing and expensive.  I wouldn't have bought it if I hadn't seen that big yellow and red sign that said 98円 for everything on that little cart!  I thought it was too good to be true but I was wrong...it's true.  The Japanese sold me a sturdy package of three large delicious long milk custardy bread things.  And let me tell you, Japanese bread is ALSO one of those normal but great things.

So this has to be one of the greatest deals in Japan.  There's the supposedly "fast-food-like"places here where you choose what you want at this machine, sit, then they deliver it to you.  Well Japan and American have VERY different definitions of "FAST FOOD".  Here's the difference:  Japan serves legit GOOD QUALITY food - not food they find on the floor or flavor random things with nasty "MEAT FLAVORING" *cough cough* ARBY's *cough*.  I mean, how much more downhill can you go from having to flavor your Roast Beef sandwiches with "Roast Beef" flavoring??  SICK.
Anyways, this awesome bowl of soba was a mere $3.  NO LIE.

THANK YOU JAPAN.