What did you eat last night for dinner?

[mm84321]

I heard those have a pineapple flavor. I haven't seen them around any markets in the US yet though.

$100 a dozen! Wow. Fruit is really expensive in Japan. I remember that story of the bunch of grapes that sold for around 900 dollars a couple of years ago in Tokyo.

 

[impolyt_one]

they're either $100/dozen (which I just looked up on the internet) or $100/each, which is what my gf just told me over the phone, but I have a hard time believing... her sister's boyfriend is a mega-baller and brought them over.

There's also these tiny fruit tomatoes that taste like fruit cocaine that were like $50/each when they first came out (debuted at Kyubei)... now more like $5 for 5 at Kinokuniya. Early produce adoption has its price in Japan, I guess.

 

[mm84321]

Is the white pigmentation due to light deprivation and a lack of chlorophyl, like with white asparagus?

I'm a big fan of yamamomo.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Are you guys back together again?

 

[mm84321]

Actually, not chlorophyl. That's green. Anthocyanin is red and purple.

 

[impolyt_one]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Are you guys back together again?

yeah we are. my pimp hand is so weak.

 

[impolyt_one]

Originally Posted by mm84321

Is the white pigmentation due to light deprivation and a lack of chlorophyl, like with white asparagus?

I'm a big fan of yamamomo.

I'm not sure about these strawberries, but I know they're a cross-cultivar. The Japanese seem to be awesome at that. Everything Japanese cross-cultivar that I've tried has been out of this world delicious.

The fruits tomatoes I mentioned are an English heirloom tomato originally I think, but like 10 years ago they started forcing them by sacrificing fruit and salting the soil to force sweetness - they're garden tomato rich, but so intensely flavored. Kyubei had them first as a dessert thing for $50'ish and now a lot of restaurants include them. About 540Y now for 5 (they're about the size of a small apricot)

 

[mm84321]

What are they called?

 

[impolyt_one]

Originally Posted by mm84321

What are they called?

the strawberries? They're hatsukoi no kaori (the smell of first love).. the tomatoes are called 'furuutsu tomato (fruits tomato)

 

[mm84321]

Originally Posted by impolyt_one

the strawberries? They're hatsukoi no kaori (the smell of first love).. the tomatoes are called 'furuutsu tomato (fruits tomato)

How romantic.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by impolyt_one

yeah we are. my pimp hand is so weak.

 

[ErnestoG.]

Originally Posted by impolyt_one

yeah we are. my pimp hand is so weak.

dag. how often do you see her?

 

[impolyt_one]

I'll eat better at least. She really wanted to get back together and I happened to have a mega long list of groceries that are just not possible to find in this country that she'll have to hand carry back on Friday. Japanese white turnips, anyone?

 

[impolyt_one]

Originally Posted by ErnestoG.

dag. how often do you see her?

well, before, all the time I wasn't sleeping, we live together. She doesn't have a legit visa for this country though, so she has to go back to Japan every 90 days and we inevitably have a fight and break up the day before.

We agreed that was getting kind of old.

 

[impolyt_one]

Food/life-related though, she's been over here with me for over two years doing nothing at all, just waiting at home for me, so I've talked her into getting some recommendation letters from her teachers from Cordon Bleu Tokyo and the sommelier/GM at Gagnaire a Tokyo to try and get a job in the kitchen here at Gagnaire a Seoul for awhile, and she's into the idea. It should keep her busy and out of my hair if she gets a job.