What I eat to cycle across Japan! (a LOT) 🍜🇯🇵

What I eat to cycle across Japan! (a LOT) 🍜🇯🇵

This is everything I eat in a day to cycle 113 kilometers across Japan. On the agenda for today, we’ve got about 70 miles of road ahead from Yonazawa to Sendai. So, I decided to skip out on this hotel’s pretty preposterous breakfast because we still happen to be in the land of morning ramen. I hit this quaint little noodle cabin that felt super homey and comforting and decided to order up a bowl of their hell ramen and handmade jumbo gyoza. I figured if it’s in a little Japanese farm town, there’s no way that it can be that spicy. Not going to lie, it definitely caught me a little bit offguard and even had my lips turning a little bit red. But anyway, let’s see how this sits in the stomach for the next 70 mi of riding. The morning had some pretty chill rolling farmlands and a little bit of pushing through little mountain villages and then a dude who told me that the road ahead was going to be a little bit rough, but I figured I could handle a couple of bumps. And look, it wasn’t that bad. He was just bugging. Or perhaps not. It actually is that bad. Wamp wamp. But eventually, I escaped this labyrinth and made my way to this little pizza place that was partly American themed and partly penguin themed. I went with this fresh sausage and onion pizza, which had a nice little bit of char on it and a pretty solid and bready chew. I also picked up their honey butter brown sugar pizza topped with ice cream, cinnamon, and caramel sauce. And was it mildly hard to eat? Yes. But was it worth it? No doubt about it. After just a little bit more pushing through some rural communities, I finally crossed over into Sendai for my first time ever and got checked into my hotel for about 50 bucks a night. For dinner, I heard that Sai is known for its beef tongue. So, I waited in this 2-hour queue to get this set, including the tongue in both standard form and sausage form, and it also came with oxtail soup. This tongue meat was nice and lean and had a little bit of a bouncy texture, but wasn’t overly tough at all. Side note, if you’re looking to spice up your taco game, try out tongue meat. Just saying. And then I wrapped up the meal with some local zunda mochi, which are rice cakes topped with sweet edamame paste, which are a little bit grainier than traditional mochi, but even tastier if you ask me. See you guys tomorrow.

This is everything I eat in a day on my bikepacking trip across Japan! Today, we travelled from Yonezawa to Sendai!

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