Yesterday my family had our monthly “Eat at a nice Restaurant” meal, and it so happens that it was a Japanese Restaurant downtown. We chose it specifically because the restaurant was empty and there was lots of space (no worry about social distancing).

During dinner something happened that reminded me of my second trip to Japan (Fukuoka for the curious). Now at the time of this story I had been living in Korea. In Korean corner stores you can buy boiled eggs, and I used to love just ducking into Family Mart for an egg as a snack.

So here I was wandering around Fukuoka, and I found a Family Mart. So I went inside and saw individually packaged eggs. So I grab one, and using my broken Japanese, I confirmed that the egg was read to eat. (To me this meant cooked)

I go outside the store and, being me, cracked the egg open on my forehead.

It was a raw egg.

I had egg on my face, literally.

During lunch yesterday, at the restaurant I ordered an egg to go with my meal, and the waiter gladly brought it over. Happily grabbed the egg and cracked it open with my hand.

It too, was raw. So I am guessing that Japanese eat raw eggs at restaurants…