"Betty Lee" wrote in message
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but I only managed to get mikan, ringo, and kyuri
for fruit and veggies (and various forms of seaweed and tsukemono,
if that counts).


Ichigo should be in season now--they grow fabulous ichigo in Japan. It
would be a shame if you didn't get to try some (especially ichigo from
Nagasaki if you managed to make it down there). I think nashi would have
been at the tail-end of its season, and kiwi are around now, too. I found
the availability of fruits to be very seasonal in Japan. For example, if
grapes weren't in season, you didn't find them in your average grocery
store. It was a good thing, in a way, because what you were able to get
tended to be of excellent quality. However, it sucked when you had a
craving for something out of season because you wouldn't be able to find it
(or would have to pay department store prices for it).

Surely, the Japanese must eat more fresh veggies than that...?
If so, what veggies do they normally eat?


kabocha, tomatoes (I know, I know, it's really a fruit), carrots, hakusai,
potatoes, cabbage, spinach, bok choy, sui (sp?) choy, daikon, gobo (is that
a vegetable?), lots of lettuce (mostly iceberg)...Those are the ones I
remember as being most common, but I'm probably missing a few.

rona

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