What do you bring back from Japan as gifts? On the last trip, I went to several 100 Yen shops and purchase whole bunch of many things. Other time I went to many convenience stores and bought about 70 Omusubi and brought them back to the US. Those are my best choices for the fights from Japan.
酒 / Sake Japanese alcohol drink made from fermenting rice. You can drink it hot, warm, cold or room temperature. It goes well with many Japanese dishes. For while, people did not drink Sake. Instead they drank more beer and distilled drinks like 焼酎 Shochu and ウイスキー Wisky. But lately more people are drinking Sake due to the introduction and promotion of brands like 獺祭 Dassai and 十四代 Jyuyondai, high...
I has Mediterranean lunch today. I don't remember ever seeing Mediterranean place in Japan ... I am sure there is but there i snot so many. One good thing is that Japan is getting ready for 2020 Olympics. So many of restaurants are staring to get ready for more international tourists. That includes more HALAL and KOSHER meals.
Steak salad ... actually any salad as a stand alone meal does not exist in Japan. Salad is something you start your meal with. Not a meal by itself.
A prominent business executive has been arrested on suspicion that he may have underreported his deferred compensation to the government. He has been interrogated without his lawyers being present and has been held in a detention center for more than two weeks without being formally charged with any crime. His detention has now been further extended. His access to a lawyer is strictly limited to s...
I do not know why but eggs are much cheaper in Japan than the US. Japanese people consume row eggs ... so they must be tested for that too.
Do you think steaks a better in the USA? How about steaks in Japan? I am not talking about Wagyu or Kobe Beef Steak. I am talking about an Angus Beef Steak. Japanese Ikinari Steak has a good Angus Beef Steak for very reasonable price.
We our holiday party on the first Friday of December every year. Look what we have served?
People in Japan, and Tokyo in particular, work a ridiculous amount, in a way that’s hard to comprehend if you live in, say, sunny California. Take a former student of mine, Naoko, who worked as a programmer. She worked—wrap your head around this—twenty hours a day. “Every day at 4 a.m.,” she said, “they’d turn off the lights and we’d sleep at our desks for four hours. “Did you have locker rooms?” ...
Evangelion ? $3.50 for vending machine soda ... Maybe because of the shoe of the bottle. I should have bought it.