IparryU wrote:fucking crazy prices for fruit and they are not even that good. I am from Cali... so I might be a little spoiled. And no, Japanese strawberries are not good, neither are their apples with ass loads of wax on it.
I still remember the strawberries when I lived in SF: they were that bad. Very hard and dry. Complete shit. That was more than 15 years ago, so maybe they have improved, but I still get nightmares from them.
IparryU wrote:Not sure about the bread.. but it is tasty...
It has become better over the last decades, but it is not yet up to European standards. Problem with many bakeries in Japan is all the stuff (cream, red bean paste, sausages, etc) they put in bread. Really disgusting.
The bakery in the MaxValue in my neighborhood has pretty good French bread, though.
Brown bread in Japan: not good enough for me, so I make it myself by a bread machine.