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think_balance
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
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Location: Japan
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 Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Apsara wrote: |
| basically you have to wait for fruit to be in season otherwise you pay through the nose. |
Great. Thank you for the information. I really appreciate it. |
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G Cthulhu
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Posts: 1373
Location: Way, way off course.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:46 am Post subject: Re: Thank you. |
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| think_balance wrote: |
I appreciate the feedback.
Is fruit expensive? I suspect oranges are hard to come by and cost a lot. What about apples? |
I'm curious why you think oranges would be hard to come by? |
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JL
Joined: 26 Oct 2008
Posts: 241
Location: Las Vegas, NV USA
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A bit more expensive, but you can also buy things like apples infused with honey.
Don't know if the OP is interested in veggies, or not. But one of my bigger gripes would be that celery, which I love, is pretty pricey in Japan. Unless prices have come down since I've been there, one single stalk would cost 100 yen. Whereas here, I can buy a whole head of celery for less (.99 USD). On the other hand, unless you go to a Chinese grocery or farmers market, it's hard in the States to find garlic scapes. But in Japan, they're in any neighborhood market. And they're DELICIOUS.
Nuts, not cheap anywhere, are very expensive in Japan. Bring someone a can of macadamias from abroad, and they'll owe you their soul. |
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markle
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
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Location: Out of Japan
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| JL wrote: |
| But one of my bigger gripes would be that celery, which I love, is pretty pricey in Japan. Unless prices have come down since I've been there, one single stalk would cost 100 yen. Whereas here, I can buy a whole head of celery for less (.99 USD). |
I can find, on occasion, whole heads of imported US celery for 100 yen. That's the week we have Waldorf Salad.
I miss cheap red capsicum, grilled, peeled and drizzled in olive oil. Don't even get me started on artichokes, olives and goat cheese droughts.... |
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parrothead
Joined: 02 Nov 2003
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Location: Japan
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| I recently visited a supermarket in America and briefly went through reverse culture shock. I wandered around the supermarket with my kei car-sized shopping cart and thought how inexpensive and gargantuan most things were. It's not that Japanese produce seems so much more expensive to me, but the quantity is so much less. |
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JL
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Location: Las Vegas, NV USA
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| parrothead wrote: |
| It's not that Japanese produce seems so much more expensive to me, but the quantity is so much less. |
Which, of course, means that Japanese stuff still is more expensive. You can eat in Japan for a let less than, say, over a decade ago. And eating out at chain restaurants or cheap neighborhood eateries has become truly reasonable. But no, food prices in Japan cannot compare with those in the U.S. |
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