Funny I was reading this while on a trip to Korea. Different country, but some of what he describes applies here as well. But my final thought was "really, he'

Funny I was reading this while on a trip to Korea. Different country, but some of what he describes applies here as well. But my final thought was "really, he's a vegetarian and he picked Japan as his place to go?" I was talking this article over tonight with some friends over a bowl of Sujabi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujebi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujebi, which could be vegetarian-ish, but like most things in Asia, never really are. It had clams in it, and the broth was boiled out of cow bones or sardines or something. I've yet to encounter some food in East Asia that didn't have some kind of animal product in it.