Egawaan was one of the main reasons I started this blog and got back into writing, because it was simultaneously good whilst also being incredibly frustrating. Photos on my instagram A few years ago before COVID was a thing, my wife and I went on a food tour in Japan. And by "food tour" I don't mean the kind where you book a tour through a travel agency, I'm talking about planning our own itinerary based off our restaurant bookings and travelling around the markets in search of the freshest sashimi and beef. I had a steak so nice in Takayama that it brought literal tears to my eyes. So after months of trawling through the Egawaan instagram page, seeing them air freight their beef and other produce direct from Japan, we had high expectations. And as you should at $160 per person. The beef on the page always look incredibly mouth watering and whilst I knew it was extremely unlikely, there was a small part of me that was hoping that I would be shedding those tears like ...