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Article: FOOTBALL: FIFA WORLD CUP 2002: DES KELLY IN JAPAN: SOME DISHES COULD MAKE YOU FEEL EEL.(Sport)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2002
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Byline: Des Kelly
EATING in Japan is just one great big lucky dip. You order a dish at random and then wait to see what sea creature lives in it.
Without an intimate knowledge of Japan's array of squiggles there is no choice but to choose your meal from the pictures on menus, or by pointing at plastic replicas of food placed in restaurant windows.
But they don't always tell the full story. Who knows at what moment the snap was taken? Who knows when the plastic mould was set?
So you can be working your way through a ...