{"id":4696,"date":"2011-02-21T20:50:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T06:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2011-02-21T20:50:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T06:50:34","slug":"mmm-battera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/21\/mmm-battera\/","title":{"rendered":"Mmm… Battera"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On the way to Sapporo, I only had an hour layover in Narita, so after getting through immigration, baggage claim, and customs, I ran over to the domestic counter to check my bags in then went up to the observation deck to cool down.\u00c2\u00a0 After the sweat evaporated, I went inside to look for a quick bite.\u00c2\u00a0 I was thinking of going to Sushi-den, the usual sushi-ya\u00c2\u00a0I eat at, but I didn’t want to scarf everything down in like 10-minutes and run out of there, so I went to Kyotaru, the take-out sushi place over on the North side (it’s right\u00c2\u00a0on the main walkway fronting the balcony overlooking the check-in counters).\u00c2\u00a0 One of the first things I saw was their Battera, so without even looking at any of their other offerings, I grabbed one and was off to the domestic gate.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n

It made it through security fine, and I unwrapped it in the waiting area rather than eat it on the plane and make everything stink like vinegared mackerel. \u00c2\u00a0Under the paper outer wrapper, the food was wrapped in an actual bamboo leaf! \u00c2\u00a0The battera was really good.\u00c2\u00a0 This wasn’t really surprising, but the worst battera I’ve ever had was in Japan, so my hopes weren’t as high as they would have been for some other foods.\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t as good as the one at Inaba Honolulu, but for a 550-yen take out, it was outstanding.\u00c2\u00a0 The fish was good quality and crazy thick – the thickness of the sushi was nearly half fish!\u00c2\u00a0 The rice was a tad sticky, so it was a bit difficult to get the pieces apart, and the konbu was a somewhat inelegant opaque green, but the test was in the eating, and this passed with flying colors (thankfully not literally, no pun intended).\u00c2\u00a0 I do suggest eating it in proximity to somewhere you can wash your hands, or to have a disposable wet hand wipe handy, as you will<\/em><\/strong> get either the fishy oil of the vinegar on your hands in the process of unwrapping it, wrangling the green plastic leaf, or opening the little packet of gari<\/em> (pickled ginger).<\/p>\n

550-yen<\/p>\n

Recommended<\/p>\n

Three-and-a-half out of four vinegared monkeys<\/p>\n

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On the way to Sapporo, I only had an hour layover in Narita, so after getting through immigration, baggage claim, and customs, I ran over to the domestic counter to check my bags in then went up to the observation deck to cool down.\u00c2\u00a0 After the sweat evaporated, I went inside to look for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,8,13,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1dK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}