Japanese food

The first edition of the "famous" Michelin guide for Tokio has awarded 191 stars. All the restaurants in the guide got one star at least. Eight restaurants - five Japanese and three French - got three stars, twenty-five got two and 117 got one.

Words like the exceptional quality of the food, the incomparable quality of the products and the rich culinary tradition were used.

Paris has 97 stars, New York 54.

I never once ate Japanese food in my life, so I most certainly am not an expert.

As a contrarian I try to avoid all things Japanese - and believe you me that is not easy. But this time, I sincerely think Michelin finally overdid it - there already had been ominous signs in Belgium and elsewhere.