How To: Cope With Food Allergies in Japan
I’m allergic to milk, eggs, and cheese, so traveling to an Asian country where the cuisine matured without these European staples was rather liberating. I was safe from my other allergies as long as I clung to traditional Japanese foods and avoided “Westernized” products like food gussied up with tree nuts, meals that came with salad, or botched concepts like “peanut cream.”