{"id":12810,"date":"2024-03-02T18:17:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T18:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12810"},"modified":"2024-03-02T19:46:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T19:46:56","slug":"turning-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12810","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have never been to Japan. Nor, for that matter, have I ever eaten Japanese food. The recent opening of a Japanese restaurant here in Wengen was therefore enough to pique my curiosity. Last night we booked a table and wondered what to expect. In the event the food was delightful. Val had a &#8216;Ramen&#8217; dish which was noodles in a spicy soup, with slices of slow-cooked pork belly. My plate consisted of sliced chicken in breadcrumbs, deep fried, along with rice and vegetables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/f61cdaa3-acfa-4dcf-8fcd-695ec84d2daa.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/f61cdaa3-acfa-4dcf-8fcd-695ec84d2daa-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/f61cdaa3-acfa-4dcf-8fcd-695ec84d2daa-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/f61cdaa3-acfa-4dcf-8fcd-695ec84d2daa-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/f61cdaa3-acfa-4dcf-8fcd-695ec84d2daa-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/f61cdaa3-acfa-4dcf-8fcd-695ec84d2daa.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The food was really good, and I expect we&#8217;ll be visiting again before long. The weather in the village today was nice enough, but up at Scheidegg a storm was raging and most of the ski lifts were closed. We got some shopping and spent the afternoon watching Formula One racing on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been to Japan. Nor, for that matter, have I ever eaten Japanese food. The recent opening of a Japanese restaurant here in Wengen was therefore enough to pique my curiosity. Last night we booked a table and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12810\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}