Yesterday, Yuki went to golf and on the way home he dropped by a domestic vegetable farm's shop. He bought some fresh vegetables, and the seasonable citron "YUZU".
So it encouraged (I'm not sure it's a suitable word or not) my apatite.
As you might know, in Japan beef is more expensive than pork and chicken. And good quality beef or brand beef is really expensive.
That night I wanted to eat good quality beef. So in the evening we went to "the" department store to buy some good quality beef. (In this area, in my opinion, there is only a department store in this city.)
There we bought
good beef at the butcher's shop, you can see it's not packed meat. Additionally in Japan most foods are sold in packs.
good beef at the butcher's shop, you can see it's not packed meat. Additionally in Japan most foods are sold in packs.It's tiny thing, but now there are only two member in this house, so we can do it. But we are chicken hearted, so we were not able to buy the beef which costs more than 1000 yen per 100 gram.
Anyway I took out out hot-plate. It was trouble some to put away on the day. So this morning I baked pumpkin pancakes. I used the pumpkin pancake mix and add some cut pumpkin which I microwaved for a few minutes.
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We did our math and concluded that 100 grams equals approximately 3.5 ounces. One thousand yen is approximately $10 so in American language you would pay about $20 for a 7-8 oz (1/2 pound) steak. If it is "prime" (the top quality) grade, that really isn't much different than we would pay here, if we have our math correct.
Recently I saw some fresh halibut fish in the market and, without looking at the price, got two small pieces of a little more than 5 ounces each. I was shocked when I saw the price tag...it turned out to be $36 a pound or $24 for our two pieces. That is the most expensive fish I have even seen in the market. It is only caught fresh a few weeks a year and perhaps was scarce this year. We savored every bite! I hope you enjoyed your expensive beef, too! Jan
Jan I checked the word "halibut" with a dictionary, it is OHYOU in Japanese. Probably we don't eat fresh OHYOU.
On the other hand
Fresh basterd halibut (HIRAME) is really expensive in Japan, and one of HIROKOsan's favorite sushi.
Greenland hailbut, we usually eat them to gril, or to simmer. They are not so expensive.
Well, well, if you had been with you, we could have bought the most expensive beef at the department store (3000 yen per 100 grams) for "you" --- come back again our good "excuse".
$30 for 3.5 ounces is EXPENSIVE beef! Is it Kobe beef? If the evironmentalist have their way, in the future all beef will be so scarce that it will be a true luxury of the past with only very wealthy still able to afford it.
You know the bland beef of "Kobe-beef". Yes the most expensive beef at the department store is "Kobe-beef", but do you know the most expensive beef in Japan that is usually not sold at the comercial stores, is "Ohtawara beef". Ohtawara is the name of city in "this" prefecture.
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