Food and Vendor Images

 

Steven's walks through Japan found him experiencing foods that were unlike anything he had experienced in his worldwalk. One memorable dinner in Osaka (that cost Steven's wealthy patron $10,000 USD)found Steven digesting whale blubber, raw horse meat and neck fat, soup with fish swimming in it, beef from cows that had been massaged for much of their lives by human caretakers, lobsters that were still alive, hotly-seasoned oxen tongue, and slices of cantaloupe costing over $150. However, it wasn't the exotic pricey cuisine--even a wine one evening that had flakes of real gold swirling in it!--that left the most vivid impression on Steven. Rather, it was a lone American-styled hamburger shop, beside a sparsely-traveled rural road, that proudly proclaimed on its brightly-lit, mis-spelled neon sign that it was the "BOOGER HUT." The photographic images that follow are from the random shots that Steven snapped as he sampled the lifestyle of the world's second-largest economy.