That would be "shirasu" hands down. It is delicious but the appearance makes me lose my appetite. It looks like a bunch of tiny white snakes, and since there so many of them clustered together it looks like they are moving.
やっぱり、しらすです。お美味しいけど、しらすの格好をみるだけで食べる気が失ってしまいます。私にとって、小さな白いヘビみたいです。そして、日本人はご飯に米が見えないまでしらすをたくさんのせるから、しらすは動いている気のせいがよくあります。
Welk, not Kyoto exactly, but yes, I tasted all those things in Japan.
't want sushi without it.
Of all the foods I have tried, two I found too weird even for me, and I am adventurous about food: natto and shark fin soup. The second I could eat, and it was ok but very fishy. However, the first one I only tasted one bean to satisfy a friend, but couldn't eat more. Of foods I heard about and thought were too strange to try, live fish. I hear that there are these tiny fish that Japanese eat live and swim around in the mouth. I don't remember the name of it.
Overall I found Japanese food delightful, tasty, unique and adventurous. I loved matcha, dango and all kinds of mochi, onigiri, okonomiyaki, and bean soups (ohsiroko). I absolutely could not get enough!
