For lunch I went for my usual Japanese fast food. All over Tokyo they have little restaurants which will serve you noodles almost instantly. When you go in (or sometimes even from the outside) you choose what you want and pay on a vending type machine. It gives you a little ticket, you sit down and within about 2 minutes your food arrives.
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| Luckily this machine has a picture of each dish. Mistakes can still be made. |
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| They turned this round in about 60 seconds (and for ~£3.50). |
The Japanese don't really eat things that hot so noodles with often be tepid if warm at all. This seems quite normal even for things you would expect to be piping hot like a katsu.
Today I went for my cheap beef and rice but decided to spice it up with 3 chicken nuggets. Everything appeared as usual in about 30 seconds flat. I ate one of the nuggets and thought it was a bit odd. So I bit into the other two and they were both raw on the inside. A horrible feeling of being unable to rewind the previous 30 seconds. Maybe the had not precooked any nuggets and tried to turn them around too fast. Maybe they even like their chicken nuggets sashimi-style out here?
I spent the rest of the day expecting waves of violent vomiting to strike me down. A long night ahead.
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