Gosh, WE were happy!!
Usually I don't care for cold sushi in winter, though Japanese are SO into it any time of year. Perhaps it's also their New Year's custom of not cooking and keeping cold food around that makes them all tolerant of it in the middle of cold winters!
In any case- to hang out with Amy and Yasuyo, I agreed to sushi. With the beer it didn't make it bad-even weird CORN sushi!! It's not hard to enjoy, and all the distraction by us, the staff was watching us cause I was taking so many photos for you here!(Like a typical new foreigner to Japan!!) They do love attention, because also otherwise, with other Japanese they don't get such attention at all!
I knew the guy to the far right was listening to us speak English, he was enjoying it, and I imagined he was wishing to somehow communicate something, so I was just waiting to get a shot of him with others! Yeah, check it out , he doesn't have the typical PEACE sign- but Hawaiian sign instead!!!
I mean, look at other customers- they look so sad!! Gosh, in spite of such good food, and warmth! The little old woman, can you see her down there? I wonder if she could enjoy.
But so, here you can check out the plate prices. See, that's how they do this. You just pick what you want, take it off the belt and those plates are calculated, later, by color coordination!
So, this here you have one of the"chefs"
(we realized we never see women back here!!) Check out how he "cooks " some fish!!
He uses a little firing tool!!!
We aren't supposed to pick at the pieces going by with our chopsticks- which Amy told us her sister did while she was in the restroom! That day, the cooks let that picked-at-piece just go rolling on around- perhaps hoping Amy would get it off the belt next time around- gosh- they aren't used to "out of the ordinary" happenings!! .
At the end of meals in these "KAI TEN ZUSHI" places, we get checked out- and today was the first time I experienced technologically getting "checked", this cute woman (who also took the photo for us!!) posed with her calculating equipment!!
THEN, after me making all that commotion with all the photo taking, on the way out- from the back- one of my long time ago , very smart students, came out and I recognized him! (he and my 18 year old daughter keep on as friends) so- what a nice FINALE!! to a luncheon in Nishio!!!
There's nothing like all of the "Peace, Peace, Peace" signing in Japan!
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OK. I know you've been wondering what I've been up to of late and whether I have succumbed to the boring life of a post-graduate student. Well, I have and I haven't. I spend a lot of weekdays and weekend nights in writing my assignments but when I go out I usually make sure I go out, know what I mean?
It snowed in Yorkshire recently. Like a true tourist I got my camera out and took some really awesome photo of a residential area in Bradford. The whole place looked like fantasy land. It was really beautiful.
I went to Glasgow to visit an old pal that's about to get married to an Argentinian.
We had a blast with her mates in Glasgow. They're coming down to Leeds for my 30th bday party in April.
We went down to the river where we washed our drunken faces in icy fresh water. The air was refreshing and just being in the woods made my whole body feel refreshed, after I had thrown up due to car sickness a minute or two before. We'd been on a cruise round the Scottish countryside where I saw a deer in its natural habitat probably for the first time. I suddenly started to feel sick in the stomache and we had to stop the car on 3 occasions for me to throw up, leaving my mark on the Scottish villages we stopped at.
Anyhow, that's enough from me. Can you let me into your blog? Or do you onle want me to leave comments and not post anything?
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