{"id":331,"date":"2011-11-04T06:22:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T06:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=331"},"modified":"2011-11-04T06:29:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T06:29:33","slug":"tourist-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Tourist Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are certain things that every visitor to Tokyo expects to see, without which any record of a stay here would feel incomplete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In this category are <strong>plastic food<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>as displayed outside restaurants to show what&#8217;s available inside<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-333\" title=\"MmmPlastic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MmmPlastic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MmmPlastic.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MmmPlastic-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This selection of Western dishes is, I think, a particularly alarming example. Check out the greasy gleam on those chips.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And then, of course, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanenglish\"><strong>Japanglish<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-334\" title=\"BeautyFoodForUrbanSweety\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BeautyFoodForUrbanSweety.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BeautyFoodForUrbanSweety.jpg 461w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BeautyFoodForUrbanSweety-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The above comes from a cosmetics shop in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harajuku\"><strong>Harajuku<\/strong><\/a>, not far from where I found these:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DragonBeard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335\" title=\"DragonBeard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DragonBeard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DragonBeard.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DragonBeard-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Footsore from wandering, one might be tempted to restore oneself with this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336\" title=\"LeafyPie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/LeafyPie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/LeafyPie.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/LeafyPie-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve now been in Tokyo for about ten days. I&#8217;ve bought food and done  laundry and navigated the subway by myself  like a big boy. I&#8217;ve even  managed to get a couple of days&#8217; writing done. Maybe &#8211; maybe &#8211; I&#8217;m beginning to get the hang of things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-332\" title=\"InAsagaya\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/InAsagaya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/InAsagaya.jpg 421w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/InAsagaya-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain things that every visitor to Tokyo expects to see, without which any record of a stay here would feel incomplete. In this category are plastic food, as displayed outside restaurants to show what&#8217;s available inside: This selection of Western dishes is, I think, a particularly alarming example. Check out the greasy gleam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}