The McRib is currently in a limited run here in Japan. Sadly like everything else in Japan they put Mayonaise on it. It really was a letdown from the McRib I remember as a kid. I guess I wobn’t be going on any Homer Simpson Ribwich tours around Japan.
OK somebody needs to tell this school that they have the lamest school mascot ever. You can’t see it from this pic but it was a bag for this school’s American Football team. Unicorns and Football, those are two words I never thought I would hear together.
We braved the rain and headed to Yokohama for dinner with Natsuko’s parents. Had some great dumplings and chinese food in China Town.
The yellow parts in there is honeycomb! As far as I know that was the first time I ever had that, it was rather tasty.
Went to an interesting design show at Tokyo Big Sight. One of the upper levels was entirely converted into a fake school complete with lockers, a nurse’s office and a playground. It also had a couple things you don’t find in any school I have ever been to like a mock soldiers barracks and a Maid cafe. The whole thing was very bizarre and very Japanese.
This was one of the strangest things I have ever seen. On the stage were two girls singing and leading a group of 20 something guys doing some absurd dance. The whole thing would had appeared normal if it was a Boy Band on stage and the group of 20 something guys were a group of 12 year old girls.
One of the Akihabara based maid cafes set up shop here. We weren’t allowed to take pictures of the girls so Natsuko snuck a few shots while pretending to be checking her email (Sorry guys, that was the best we could do).
I was however allowed to take pictures while our maid decorated our cat pancakes.
I almost missed this one. You are just gonna have to take my word for it, this was a Chrysler 300.
Some of the best Thai food and defenitely the best I have had in Japan is right in my neighborhood. Lucky me.
Hoppy is a non alcoholic beer that you mix with Shochu and has always intrigued me. Unfortunately I was pretty disappointed. I found it to be pretty nasty and couldn’t finish. It certainly didn’t help that I picked some cheap ass Shochu to mix it with.
Hung out in Koenji with a group of fellow Gaijin (Foreigners). The evening included my first Corona in Japan, some Yaki Niku at a Korean restaurant and finished off with some karaoke.
Came home late last night to find this scene. It was raining and it seems somebody ran the curb and hit the railing on the sidewalk. This is a an intersection on the way to my train station where I and many others have to wait while the light changes. Hope nobody was standing there when this happend.
