Amish Cooking in Japan

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A great thing about living in Japan is that believe it or not, you can get pretty much any kind of ethnic food you want. Of course we love the Japanese food that we can get here, but we've been surprised with the level of quality of the hamburgers, the Italian food and we've even had very good Mexican food. As I've written about before, the Japanese are just foodies.

Well, for those of you who fear that if you were to move to Japan you'd have no outlet for your Amish cooking cravings, rest assured that we've found such a place for you in the tiny, rural resort town of Kamakura...about 90 minutes by train south of Tokyo. Taking a quick look at the menu, one realizes that perhaps the proprietors of this Cafe might be of a smaller, less zealous branch of the Amish. Maybe a more liberal, reformed version? I'll let you be the judge. Here's the menu:

Let's see we have such Amish staples as toast, lattes, 2 kinds of beer, and white cream & bean paste cakes.

Now I'm no marketing genius, though marketing is my job and I did study it in school, but I've never considered before using the Amish as some hip ploy to lure customers. I guess if you're going to differentiate yourself, you might as well REALLY differentiate yourself, right?