More foods from Japan

Here are some more tasty and affordable foods that I stumbled on in Japan:

 That's cow over rice with stewed onions.  It costs little under $4.  It's one of those restaurants where you have to buy the ticket first after you give it to the chef.  There's one guy working there at the time.  He was the chef, server, and the greeter all at once.  Is that efficiency or what?

For another 100 yen you can upgrade to this premium beef.  It costs an extra 60 yen for the miso soup.  The rice was really good, and this is something I really appreciate about Japan.  The rice is always high quality.  It's like, everything is so scarce, so you have to make the best of it.  You don't have margin to waste on mediocrity in Japan.  That's the thing that pervades the culture, and you can really see it in the food. The Japanese take food very seriously.

That there is a bowl of ramen, folks.  Take a good look.  Notice how everything is all nicely arranged and presented?  Isn't it lovely?  Here's another one:

Those are won-tons on the left.

And my favorite...

This is a char-siu ramen in Japan

You can always tell that a ramen restraunt is run by a Chinese person in the states, because the ramen will look like someone puked on it:

 

 

 

This is char-siu ramen in the states.

 

  Seriously, which one looks more appetizing?