It never fails – every time the big cherry things burst into bloom, I see foods that totally make me want to shout “What the pinkity pink?” I’m not talking about food that should be pink (like sakura ice cream) or is only slightly questionably pink (like strawberry lattes), I’m talking about the HELP EEK WHY IS THAT FOOD PINK specialties that appear every cherry blossom season in Japan. Such as…
Pink sushi rice NO
Lotteria’s famous pink-bunned burger: a deep-fried hockey puck of pink shrimp topped with a non-trivial swadge of tartar sauce, also (supposedly) studded with tiny shrimp far to small to actually see, but which make the sauce suspiciously PINK
Winning in the “how many kinds of pink food can you include in one special,” this sakura-flavored noodle set hits the trifecta with sides of bacon-topped steamed veggies, tuna sashimi, and a pink rice cake wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf
Spaghetti in beet sauce with shrimp? Gee, wonder why I’ve never seen this particular taste combo on any self-respecting restaurant’s menu…
And finally, although this actually is a dessert, it gets ick points for being slices of gooey sweet rice cakes stuck in a bun to (ha ha ha UGH) resemble a hot dog
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Ahahaha you’re not the first blowback I’ve gotten for slamming the pink sushi rice (><;;) And I'll admit that I actually kind of want to try those sushi donuts you wrote about! (In fact, anybody else who's reading this might want to saunter over to Helen's awesome Not Your Normal Health Blog and read about them too: http://notyournormalhealthblog.com/2017/05/14/sushi-doughnuts-sydney-fish-market/
Only In Japan 
Yuck! No!
Erm, I kind of like the pink sushi (said the person about to horrify you with today’s sushi post on my one)
Ahahaha you’re not the first blowback I’ve gotten for slamming the pink sushi rice (><;;) And I'll admit that I actually kind of want to try those sushi donuts you wrote about! (In fact, anybody else who's reading this might want to saunter over to Helen's awesome Not Your Normal Health Blog and read about them too: http://notyournormalhealthblog.com/2017/05/14/sushi-doughnuts-sydney-fish-market/