When being imperfect works in my favour...

Yes it is true that fruit in Japan is quite expensive. You can even find fruit to rival gold prices in big department stores! Even though it is expensive, there is no way I could go two years without buying any. The key is to buy what is in season and to look out for discounts. If that fails, bananas are still the cheapest fruit to buy. The thing with fruit in Japan is that no matter what money you pay, you get perfect, delicious fruit every time. Perfect in colour, texture and shape. The following really surprised me in a local supermarket. The cheapest strawberries available in strawberry season were these... As you can see, the shape is far from perfect. Enough of a reason to mark these beauties down. They were huge and DELICIOUS and luckily, cheap! They were about $4.50 for the punnet. Possibly even better than a regular shaped strawberry. It is like having three strawberries at once. And might I say again, yum!