Thursday, August 9, 2007

Japanese Super Market Mitsuwa / 日本食材の殿堂

I went straight to Mitsuwa. Mitsuwa is the biggest supermarket in NY and NJ. It was renovated and the external appearance of the building was better than 2 years ago. We can find most Japanese foods and daily necessaries there. Futhermore, there is a food court, Ramen Santoka and a Sanseido book store and many kinds of Japanese free papers are very useful. Inside the store it's very clean and the displays of groceries are as beautiful as a supermarket in Japan. But the prices are higher than Japan and other American supermarkets, so we buy things that we can only find here. Today, we bought Natto and Japanese Rice and Tamakimai that was delicious when we came here last time. The rice sold here is Japanese rice made in the US. It is delicious when you eat it as soon as you boil it, but later it becomes hard (BOSOBOSO). I think it is because it's not sticky rice.(←I don't know how to describe the character of Japanese rice)