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M. helena

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Foodie adventures in Japan! I can speak a bit of Japanese, so I’ve been checking out blogs and stuff to hunt down all the must-try spots. Get ready for some seriously tasty eats! I’ll leave all the convenience store food stuff to the tourists lol

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Melt-in-your-mouth A5 Wagyu, famous for its incredible marbling. It's freaking delicious!

18.06.2025 23:39 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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No cap, Japanese beef is the tastiest ever!! You can get A5 Wagyu for a pretty decent price at lunch — this set’s like $15 or so. Like, what even was that nasty Indian curry tho? LOL

13.06.2025 12:19 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OMG, I haven’t had food this bad in Japan in forever. And like, $70 for that? Total rip-off. Kinda sus when it’s run by Indian guys tbh.

13.06.2025 12:12 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Okay but like, even the udon is bomb? This country seriously kills it with noodles!

27.05.2025 13:33 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Had a bomb combo for lunch today—chashu ramen and tenshinhan! Kinda wild how lit the food scene is here. Like, seriously, so good!!!

15.05.2025 15:38 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm always finding new ramen to fall in love with—today it's a bomb tonkotsu with triple chashu, like, yes please!

10.05.2025 08:53 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This country is like, total ramen heaven! I swear, even if I ate it every single day, I’d probably never hit up every place in my whole life. It seriously feels that way, lol.

05.05.2025 17:50 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Omg, Yoshinoya in Japan is having a crazy sale right now — a beef bowl is only like $2.60!! That’s cheaper than a bag of Lay’s Classic Chips lol. I couldn’t help myself and ended up getting, like, eight of them 😂

01.05.2025 15:36 — 👍 25    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So today I had this thing called Indian curry—no clue what makes it ‘Native Americans,’ but OMG it was crazy spicy!! Like, it starts off kinda sweet and then BAM, the heat hits you outta nowhere. But it was sooo good!

28.04.2025 17:04 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today's special is a Tonkatsu Soup Bowl! It's like, you know the rich tonkotsu ramen broth? We legit pour that all over a katsu bowl. It's kinda wild but sooo good!

27.04.2025 15:41 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's a bowl of ramen loaded with so much chashu you can't even see the noodles! Deadass, this is what it means to be crazy good!!

27.04.2025 04:51 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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All-you-can-eat is totally a thing here lol. This time it’s BBQ! You get two hours and it’s only 1980 yen—like 14 bucks—and it even comes with dessert 😭💕. Kinda sucks that the meat’s all from the U.S. tho, haha.

25.04.2025 07:32 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I got the pasta combo for lunch—came with salad, soup, and a drink, all for just 10 bucks! Such a steal, honestly. Gotta thank the strong dollar, lol.

24.04.2025 07:19 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Latest Version japan traditional sweets TAIYAKI

22.04.2025 14:41 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Okay so like, in Japan, Baskin-Robbins and this cute sweets brand called Fujiya teamed up and made a company called B-R Thirty-One Ice Cream—people there just call it '31'. But the wild part? Most people don’t even know it actually started as Baskin-Robbins!

22.04.2025 01:21 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Like, how many kinds of ramen are there in this country? It’s actually insane. Some of these are totally one-of-a-kind. The way ramen chefs here run their shops—like, putting their heart into making sure the customer leaves happy and smiling? You seriously don’t see that anywhere else.

21.04.2025 12:48 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There are fancy AF conveyor belt sushi spots

20.04.2025 06:23 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yo, the curry in this country was next level. And the toppings? So fun! And get this—it was only 10$! Like, seriously?!

20.04.2025 02:01 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Japan, lunch is usually like a set, y'know? And it’s actually the right amount, so you’re not stuck with a bunch of leftovers. Honestly, not having to take stuff home is such a lifesaver.

19.04.2025 15:07 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lunch today was Japanese soba — came with tempura and rice, all for like 8 bucks?! Such a steal!

19.04.2025 03:16 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And get this—most of them are like, only 4 to 7 bucks. It's totally affordable, like straight-up everyday food.

17.04.2025 18:04 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I used to think Ichiran was the only good ramen out there—man, I was so wrong. Japan's got literally tens of thousands of ramen types, and every region has its own flavor, vibe, and shops that are super serious about how they make it

17.04.2025 18:02 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This was just lunch, but like—only in Japan would they go all out on the presentation like this. It’s seriously so pretty. And duh, it tasted amazing too!

17.04.2025 03:41 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Omg I had this bomb combo today — a bowl of ramen with extra chashu and some crispy gyoza on the side. All that for just 9 bucks?! Like, what a steal. And duh, it was insanely good!

15.04.2025 11:14 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When I think of Japan, it’s all about matcha and melon soda. Like, for real—I'm totally addicted to melon soda now. I legit don’t know how I’m gonna survive back home without it. I can see the despair in your eyes when you get back home.

14.04.2025 19:50 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bento is like, such a vibe! It’s honestly one of the coolest parts of Japanese culture—and no wonder the food there is literally the best in the world!

12.04.2025 19:29 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You know, Japan’s food scene is kinda wild — it’s like totally split between east and west. Even the same cup noodles from the same brand taste different depending on where you buy ‘em! Oh, and this one? Got it for like 80 cents.

11.04.2025 12:57 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dude, can you believe this? In Japan, you can get this super fresh tuna bowl for just six bucks! And get this—it even comes with miso soup, not shown in the pic.

10.04.2025 22:20 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yo, the food culture in the Far East is like, totally from another world!

09.04.2025 20:14 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here's my first post.
The supreme rice that can only be found in the Far East
It's a bowl of rice topped with tunas!

18.03.2025 05:54 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0