100 Yen Sushi

I haven't blogged in awhile, but I've collected a couple stories, so here goes with the first. One of our favorite restaurants is a 100 yen sushi restaurant. Here in Japan, 100 yen is roughly equivalent to $1 U.S. So, instead of having a "dollar store", we have a 100 yen store, and so on.


At the 100 yen sushi store, you sit in a booth next to a carousel where plates of sushi pass you by. When you see something you like, you just grab it.
Helen and Angelica both like the shrimp tempura. "Tempura" is basically anything deep-fat fried. With sushi, the big piece of fried shrimp is laid on top of a block of rice with some mayonnaise between.
One of my favorites is this concoction. Its raw salmon laid on top of a block of rice with wasabi sauce in between. Sliced onion and some sort of salad dressing is put on top.

Another type of shrimp tempura sushi. Here, the fried shrimp is rolled up in rice and a seaweed wrapoper.

This is minced seafood (shrimp and squid) with a mayonnaise-based dressing on top of rice and wrapped with a seaweed wrapper.

You can also get a bowl of miso soup at the sushi restaurant. Helen always likes to eat the shellfish miso.

After you're done eating, the waiter counts up you plates and charges you 100 yen per plate! The miso soup cost 157 yen.