007 Food: Sushi breakfast

Food: Sushi breakfast
Bond book appearance: The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
Experience of 007 Travelers: Self-made

"She led Bond back through the busy market until they came to an outlying area that featured a few fresh sushi restaurants in rows of one-storey barrack-like buildings.

"Let's have a sushi breakfast," she suggested.

They went into the narrow place, which was about ten feet wide, and sat at the counter with several workers, still clad in rubber boots. Bond ordered several pieces of tuna, salmon and fish roe for them to share, along with a tekka-maki, a tuna roll wrapped in seaweed cut into six portions, and a kappa-maki, a roll stuffed with cucumber. Bond ordered extra wasabi to mix with the soy sauce, as he was not fond of raw fish. But he was willing to give it a go."

Raymond Benson: "The Man with the Red Tattoo" 

Sushi with "The Man with the Red Tattoo" Finnish edition

Six tekka-makis and six kappa-makis

Fish roe, tuna and salmon in their own bowls

Soy sauce and wasabi

Tekka-maki in bamboo mat, ready to be cut to six pieces

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007 Book: Raymond Benson - James Bond Choice of Weapons - Three 007 novels

Book: James Bond Choice of Weapons - Three 007 novels
Author: Raymond Benson
Pages: 847
Language: English


Including the short stories "Live at Five" (1999) and "Midsummer Night's Doom" (1999)

Includes: "Zero Minus Ten" (1997), "The Facts of Death" (1998) and "The Man with the Red Tattoo" (2002).

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007 Food: Fine Japanese meal and Ginjo sake

Food: Fine Japanese meal and Ginjo sake
Bond book appearance: The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
Experience of 007 Travelers: Self-made

"She took the tray that had contained a fine Japanese meal consisting of a prawn sushi and an egg roll with crab meat appetisers, sweet-simmered whitebait in soy sauce, boiled shrimp with fish roe, a piece of fried chicken in ginger starch sauce, miso soup, Japanese pickles and steamed rice. She left another bottle of Ginjo sake, his third but not last, and cleared away the empty. It was a slightly sweet sake that came from the Kyoto Prefecture and Bond thought it did nicely as an after dinner drink. He had to admit that the service aboard Japan Airlines was in keeping with the first-class attention to detail that all things seemed to receive in Japan. The twelve-hour flight would be a pleasant one."

Raymond Benson: "The Man with the Red Tattoo" (2002)

Prawn sushi

Egg roll with crab meat appetisers

Sweet-simmered whitebait in soy sauce

Boiled shrimp with fish roe

A piece of fried chicken in ginger starch sauce, Japanese pickles and steamed rice

Miso soup

Ginjo sake

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007 Drink: Sake

Drink: Sake
Bond movie appearance: You Only Live Twice (1967)
Bond book appearance:  You Only Live Twice (1964), The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002) 
Experience of 007 Travelers: @ home

"We have a saying ‘It is the man who drinks the first flask of sake; then the second flask drinks the first; then it is the sake which drinks the man." (Tiger Tanaka)

Ian Fleming: "You Only Live Twice" (1964)


Sake (Japanese: 酒) (IPA: /ˈsɑːkɛ/ SAH-keh), also spelled saké, (IPA: /ˈsɑːkeɪ/ SAH-kay or /ˈsɑːki/ SAH-kee) also referred to as a Japanese rice wine, is made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran. Unlike wine, in which alcohol (ethanol) is produced by fermenting sugar that is naturally present in fruit, typically grapes, sake is produced by a brewing process more akin to that of beer, where starch is converted into sugars which ferment into alcohol. (Wikipedia). Read more here

Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

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007 Food: Bowls of udon and hot broth mixed with fried soybean curd

Food: Bowls of udon and hot broth mixed with fried soybean curd
Bond book appearance: The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
Experience of 007 Travelers: Self-made

""Let's have some noodles." 

They both ordered bowls of fresh udon, thick white noodles made from kneaded wheat flour. They were served in a hot broth mixed with fried soybean curd and spices such as red pepper that they could shake into the bowl according to taste. Bond found it delicious and ordered two cans of cold Kirin beer to go with the meal."

Raymond Benson: "The Man with the Red Tattoo" (2002) 

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007 Food: Bowl of udon

Food: Bowl of Udon
Bond book appearance: The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
Experience of 007 Travelers: Self-made

"Bond stopped at a noodle shop and had a quick bowl of udon, then continued walking to the hotel."

Raymond Benson: "The Man with the Red Tattoo" (2002) 

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007 Book: The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)

Bond book: The Man with the Red Tattoo

Author: Raymond Benson

Publication date: 2 May 2002

The Man with the Red Tattoo, was the sixth and final original novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.

On a flight from Japan to the United Kingdom, a young Japanese woman dies of a mysterious illness. The illness is a mutated version of the West Nile virus. James Bond finds out that not only was she the daughter of an important Japanese businessman, her entire family is also dead. James Bond travels to Japan in search of the killer. Here Bond reunites with his longtime friend Tiger Tanaka, who introduces him to a female Japanese agent who is later killed by the mutant virus.

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