Quiet day today so not really much to write about except the food.
I think I need a job as a travelling food journalist based in Japan so I have an excuse to eat one of everything and get extremely fat. I hear normal foreign tourists come to Japan and lose weight but not me. In the year I lived here I gained 10kg and I think I’ll gain another ten by the end of the trip. It’s too hot to go outside and exercise so all I can do is eat and grow.
I slept in today but woke up just before lunch so technically my breakfast was a massive bowl of home made tempura soba. Every meal also seems to be accompanied by a dessert of chocolate that we brought from NZ and various snacks.
Tonight’s meal was also a feast, yakiniku, meat bbq’d on a hot coal grill at your table. An Asian favourite that involves going to a restaurant and cooking your own food to your idea of perfection. The photo attached won’t do this meal justice but it was delicious. Beef, pork, chicken, liver, and finished off with some prawns. Oh and someone ordered veges to bbq and a salad but I think I missed those. MEAT! That is all that’s needed. The animals have eaten all those grains and grass and other greenery on my behalf so by eating them I’m sure I get the same benefits.
It’s also been a taxing day on my brain as I’ve had to use Japanese all day by myself while Naoko was at her friends wedding. I don’t think I’ve used this much Japanese at once since last time I was here. Geez I need more practice!
Seems like the wedding was a great event that lasted all day. It also seems extremely complicated to get married in Japan (probably most other parts of Asia too.) There’s all sorts of things you need to work out even as a guest, like how much money to bring and how to properly fold the money package to bring the most luck and good fortune (If I get married feel free to just bring stacks of cash in brown paper bags.) Then the married couple also prepared gift bags especially for each person, personalised photo and message cards, snacks, treats, and a wedding gift book that the guest gets to take home and choose a present from! Crazy. No wonder the guests bring money or it would be far too expensive. There’s also an important thing of keeping track of how much you get at a friends wedding so your family knows how much to give them at yours. Got to keep the balance and the status quo after all.
Catching up with more family tomorrow so for now time to sign off and get some rest again. Have a good one folks!
