Trying to be dairy free in Japan suuuucks
I'm absolutely loving Japan, but having a terrible time trying to be dairy free. Seemingly everything here has milk or butter in it, other than some noodle dishes. Even most of the fried chicken has milk in the batter.
I'm particularly struggling to find bread or snacks that don't contain milk - seemingly everything has at least some dairy in it, so breakfasts are rough. I read a couple of previous posts on this subreddit where people responded to say they didn't find it any issue, but I assume those people are only very mildly lactose intolerant or are intolerant to a specific protein rather than fully lactose intolerant
The worst part is seeing all this delicious food that I can't eat.
Making this post mainly as a counter to the previous posts mentioning it was fine - if you are badly lactose intolerant it IS an issue, so prepare with lactase etc accordingly.