[samurai007]

I never ate much Japanese food before going to Japan because really, there are no good Japanese restaurants in my town. I of course ate a lot of it in Japan, but while over there, I eventually became quite homesick for some western food ... a nice pork roast with garlic, a roast turkey thigh, a big juicy hamburger, real pizza (without mayonnaise, corn, or octopus on it the way Japanese do it), and spaghetti with real Italian sauce, not watered down ketchup. Now that I'm back in the US, I miss real Japanese food (not what passes for Japanese here), like kara'age, tonkatsu, yakisoba, Hakata-style ramen, etc.