Nisei Week Festival/Little Tokyo/Related

Great pics :)

The ramen has had a serious dent put in it by then :)

bmwracer wrote:First pic... My bowl of ramen from Daikokuya.

That's really yummy looking. Thanks for the pics!! Now if only you could ship that to Hawaii. :beaten:

Tu_triky wrote:dayem that looks good!

And it tastes even better...! :thumbsup:

bmwracer wrote:
And it tastes even better...! :thumbsup:

i bet :)

bmwracer wrote:
From what I gather, it's just a place wher you can sit around and have a beer and enjoy the calm, beautiful surroundings of a Japanese garden (waterfalls, rock gardens, little streams, etc.)

I'll post the pics of the garden... Eventually. :sweat:

Ahhhhhh I was under the impression that there were fountains sputtering beer over grass. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:Now the accompanying bowl of una-ju, i.e., unagi donburi... :bonk:

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Damn that looks good! And ramen looks really creamy. It must have been busy there, yea?

bmwracer wrote:
Yup, that's a pretty dead-on description of the beer garden at the top of the New Otani... :victory:

i think i took pix last time, forgot where i put them...B you post yours...

not sure the exact dimensions of the LA Little tokyo New Otani Beer Garden, but the one in Tokyo, is 400 acres, or i think i read that wrong, but is a lot bigger.

btw: the Nissei week girls, were there, all 6 of them, and supposively what i read, they were there at the New Otani because they were going to have festivities, dinner, and select the queen that night at 6pm, that's the reason they were sitting there...i read it from Nissei week magazine i bought, it listed the schedule of the festivities.

Wynter wrote:

Damn that looks good! And ramen looks really creamy. It must have been busy there, yea?

ah...a picture of my shirt and left arm...hahah
yeah the food was good as usual...love the raumen there...(spelled that wa on purpose.)...

the soup base is from black pig broth....TU care to elaborate on this, said somewhere in a newspaper on the special broth soup they use for their raumen. It wasn't busy when we went, but later we noticed it getting busier.

400 acres is about a suburb, Q-san :)

Here's a pic of the Nisei Week Court candidates:

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qilver wrote:

ah...a picture of my shirt and left arm...hahah
yeah the food was good as usual...love the raumen there...(spelled that wa on purpose.)...

the soup base is from black pig broth....TU care to elaborate on this, said somewhere in a newspaper on the special broth soup they use for their raumen. It wasn't busy when we went, but later we noticed it getting busier.

they use kurobuta (black pig) otherwise known as Berkshire pig....it's the breed of swine they get the pork from....it's renown for it's flavor and tenderness.

Wynter wrote:Damn that looks good! And ramen looks really creamy. It must have been busy there, yea?

Actually, since we showed up sorta late (12:30PM), we missed the lunch crowd. :)

Anime Dad wrote:Here's a pic of the Nisei Week Court candidates:

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Based on the above pic, the girl in the center would be my choice. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
Based on the above pic, the girl in the center would be my choice. :victory:

Hmmm, I would have said the same :)

*Edit* The girl on top-right was crowned Queen.

Anime Dad wrote:Hmmm, I would have said the same :)

*Edit* The girl on top-right was crowned Queen.

Ehhh?

The one that looks hapa??

That seems to have happened a lot over the years... :shakehead:

Some people bellied up to the counter side of Daikokuya:

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Anime Dad wrote:

Hmmm, I would have said the same :)

*Edit* The girl on top-right was crowned Queen.

interesting thing is, that is the one i first saw when B and I walked in to the hotel lobby area, from the back section. The girls were chatting in one of the lobby sections as we walked past them. I actually had eye contact with the now.."queen", and she was of course quite attractive, beautiful. But i would have to agree with B-san, i'd go with that other girl as the prettiest, but they chose the hapa one.

qilver wrote:interesting thing is, that is the one i first saw when B and I walked in to the hotel lobby area, from the back section. The girls were chatting in one of the lobby sections as we walked past them. I actually had eye contact with the now.."queen", and she was of course quite attractive, beautiful. But i would have to agree with B-san, i'd go with that other girl as the prettiest, but they chose the hapa one.

Y'know, I used to always buy the program, but I just lost interest in the queen selection, 'casue I think it's biased... :sweat:

Back to the pics... Here's the Japanese-American Cultural and Community Center building:

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The Japan America Theater.

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qilver wrote:

ah...a picture of my shirt and left arm...hahah

I figured that was you. ;)

bmwracer wrote:
Actually, since we showed up sorta late (12:30PM), we missed the lunch crowd. :)

Ahhhh lucky! I find it really hard to enjoy my food when there are loads of people crammed into the same location. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Ehhh?

The one that looks hapa??

That seems to have happened a lot over the years... :shakehead:

What's a "hapa"?

bmwracer wrote:
Y'know, I used to always buy the program, but I just lost interest in the queen selection, 'casue I think it's biased... :sweat:

Back to the pics... Here's the Japanese-American Cultural and Community Center building:

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Sugoi! Everything is so crisp and clean. What's the sculpture up front supposed to represent?

Wynter wrote:What's a "hapa"?

It's a slang term meaning "half" as in half-Asian, half something else. [/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote: It's a slang term meaning "half" as in half-Asian, half something else. [/list:u]

Ahhhhhh okies. Thanks. :)