food book final reflection

I chose “Pineapple Culture” by Gary Y Okihiro.

Now we can see pineapples almost every supermarket and we can eat whenever we want. However, pineapples are not just the fruit. It has made a civilization.

 

First, I was surprised how the pineapples grow. Have you ever imagine pineapples growing on trees? Or growing on the ground? The answer is this.

 

 

 

This picture can be seen as something for joking, but this is the reality. Pineapples grow on the ground. And then we cut them by the bottom. This was the most surprising thing I have learned from this book…

 

After reading this book, I noticed that fruits can make the history of countries. As for pineapples, they have made Hawaiian history and culture which is now inherited. There are pineapple farms in Hawaii and many tourists from all over the world visit there. Mc Donald’s in Hawaii serves pineapples for free as a combo set with hamburgers. Pineapples have a huge connection between Hawaiian societies. Of course not only Hawaii but also other countries or regions including Japan has it. But Hawaii is the most obvious example.

my restaurant experience

I went to Kanazawa Mainmon Zushi（金沢まいもん寿司）.

It is literally a sushi restaurant especially “kaiten-zushi”.

About one week ago, the restaurant was introduced on a famous TV program and the MC praised the restaurant for the cost and its quality. So I decided to go there with my family. I had never been to “kaiten-zushi” with my family before because my parents didn’t like it. So I was a little nervous if they would like the restaurant.

Before I went there, I searched its website and found a page to make a reservation in advance. At that time, we already had to wait for about 180 minutes. So we decided to go there around 8 o’clock.

As I arrived there, there were many people waiting outside of the restaurant though it was a horribly cold night. Of course, it had a large space for waiting inside of the building but that was not enough.

After arrived there and waited for about 20 minutes more (about 195 minutes in total), then my number was called and we were seated.

Unlike other “kaiten-sushi” restaurants I had ever been to, there were many sushi chefs in the center of the floor so that when customers had any request, they could ask chefs directly to make for them. That means, we can eat sushi made by hand, not by machines.

The size of the fish was relatively bigger. The quality was almost the same as normal sushi restaurants. Of course the price was much higher than other “kaiten-sushi”.

There were of course some flaws however, the best point at that restaurant is the atmosphere. All of the workers harked hard and enjoyed working. I think that is really important to make customers’ special time and memory with special someone.

My parents became to like the restaurant so I think we will go there someday…?