There are more food bloggers than necessary...

... But I totally understand why people like to write about food. It's one of the elixirs of life. Food when well prepared nourishes not just the body but also the company. D and I, and of course with the kids, have our best conversations over a nice hearty meal. J truly becomes chatty when his belly is warm and full... What is it they say about the way to a man's heart?... In fact he loves food so much he has taken to cooking for us and I must say he's developing well :) Move over, Heston! M has much more sensitive palate and can tell the difference between different sorts of rice and water... A real food reviewer in the making. 

On that note, we knew we were in for a treat eating out in Japan. Yesterday, we started with a sumptuous hotel buffet, moved on to an extended 90-min 9-course lunch and topped it off with a two hour dinner with friends here in Tokyo. We were about to roll out of the restaurant! 

So, in homage to the culinary delights we have enjoyed through South, North America and then Japan, here are some pictorial keepsakes. We can't replicate taste and the feel good company in a blog, so the other senses would have to do the imaginative work here.

1. The breakfast buffet in TRYP São Paulo with a healthy selection of beverages to get one going

2. The refereshing coconut and caipirinha along Copacabana beach

3. The tummy-expanding golden cassava in Cuzco...

4. ... Best enjoyed with a warm cup of "Happiness Tea" with all sorts of herbs including coca and mint

5. A unique dish of guinea pig in Inkawashi, one of the Trip Advisor (whom we trust) rated restaurants in Aqueas Calientes

6. A Peruvian haute cuisine dish of well marinated chicken

7. ... Topped off a triple layer dessert of chocolate, pineapple and ricotta cheese

8. Fish only the Japanese know how to do where everything from head to tail can be deliciously eaten

9. ... Which is a set up towards the main course of specialty soba, both hot and cold!

10. And not forgetting the best dessert this trip... Sesame seed and black cream custard. Melts not just in your mouth!

11. And when in Japan, of course delicately sliced sashimi on freshly warm rice: the sushi

12. We've left out quite a few other delicacies we've sampled, including tapas any mojito in Miami, acaraje in the Brazilian hippie market, Peruvian cerviche and pisco sours, etc... But to round up this fitting dozen, we salute those who prepare the food like this excellent chef at the Hilton Tokyo egg station (our last buffet meal in this RTW trip)!

 

I know I make us out us to be gluttons. We don't usually eat out that much and I am as happy with my 'chai tow kuay' carrot cake with 'teh halia kurang manis'. But when we do get the chance to live to eat, live we shall!