Japanese diet
It’s been four months since I arrive to Japan. Since I am from middle Europe it took me quite a long time to get used to the lifestyle here. There are huge diffences in almost all areas of life but maybe for me one of the hardest thing was to adjust to the food here. It wasn’t difficult because I don’t like the food here. It’s the exact opposite, even back in Hungary I went to eat out quite often in Japnese restaurants since I had a big passion for sushi and ramen. The main reason it was hard. I think is because I needed to change my carbohydrate sources. I switched from bread to rice, from spagetthi to ramen and yakisoba and the bacterial flora of some of the ingredients inside of these measl are very different from what my European stomach was used to. Maybe when you travel only for a couple of weeks there differences are not that apparent to your body but since I am libving here now my immune system needed to go through some drastical changes.
Although, I must say that since I arrived Japan and I started to eat local food I feel much more healthier and energetic than before. Compred to Hungary the dishes are less oily and fatty and which I love most about Japanese kitchen is that there are many meals which can be prepared very easily. Back in Hungary, when my mom cooked something I remember that she always spent long hours in the kitchen but here cooking seems so much less stressful and time consuming which is a great thing in my opinion.
Also, another great thing is that treaditional Japanese fastfood is less harmful to the body than “western” fast fast food in my country. When I eat fast food in Budapest it’s usually either a pizza or hamburger but here there are better options here. As I heard ramen and udon are consideres as fast food here. Yet, even if you eat them multible times a week it won’t have a negative effect on your diet or eatinmg habbits.
