How far does your yen go?

To give you an idea of what I'm buying at grocery stores and the cost of food, here is the result of today's shopping trip:

7.5 grams cinnamon: ¥113








2 liters of mikan flavored drink: ¥168
Mikan refer to all native oranges, but mostly to mandarin oranges.








1 can ume flavored Chuhai: ¥108
Chuhai is an alchoholic beverage. Ume are often referred as plums, but are actually related to apricots.







15 ready-to-cook gyoza: ¥145








1 can loquats: ¥98








1 bottle (.5 liter) Aquarius: ¥ 98

Most sodas and such in .5 liter bottles are ¥98 in stores, and ¥120-150 from vending machines. They are about the size of a 16 ounce soda bottle.

Aquarius is like Pocari Sweat: not too sweet, no describable flavor. It's made by Coca-Cola.

3 cucumbers: ¥100
These are thinner than in the US.





1 Kiwi: ¥128







1 Onion: ¥39








1 piece of salmon: ¥250








Garbage bags for burnable trash (10): ¥130
You have to buy these to put out burnable trash.





4 pieces of fried fish from the deli: ¥ 218








1/4 Hokusai cabbage: ¥99











10 eggs, size M: ¥198








3 Myoga: ¥99
(similar to ginger-- I haven't tried them yet)






1 pack of fresh shiitake mushrooms: ¥158
This is probably the best deal, compared to the US.





Grand total: ¥2,149 = $20.01 US.

I'll put the salmon, myoga, some shiitake, some onion and some hokusai in the rice cooker with some rice to make dinner tonight. The rest of the hokusai will probably end up in a stir fry, or okonomiyaki. Yum!