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Vegitable couscous from COUSCOUS @ Nippori

980 yen (including salad and bread). overall ?/10 I ate COUS COUS. Restraunt name is also COUS COUS.

 

I ate couscous after a long time. I have eaten couscous 10 years before in Granada, Spain. I think the reason why I have not eat couscous is not delicious for me maybe. This day, I ate a couscous lunch set (including salad and tunisian bread, and tomato soup). Light and small couscous pasta is curious taste for me, like long grain rice, Breadcrumbs.......... Fistly couscous and tomato soup in small saucer was served. Fortunatelly, additional tomato soup is free, so that I ate two tomato soup ( yummy!!). I also enjoyed dried grape and chick pea around the cous cous pasta. From those ingredients, I sensed this dish is arabic food.

 

If I eat this dish at restraunts in Maghreb country, where climate is dried and hot, My impression may be different. But here is Tokyo where climate is humid and mild. I believe the instinctive human's want for foods is strongly related to natural environment. So, I think it is maybe difficult to taste couscous fully, because of difference of climate from Maghreb country.

 

To sum up, Couscous maybe gains popularity among Japanese people, becasue of that couscous is healthy and is used popular ingredients in Japan. But is there any reason to eat couscous rather than spagetthi, soba, ramen or rice?

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Uploaded on November 9, 2008
Taken on November 10, 2008