Nisei Week Festival/Little Tokyo/Related

pcmodem wrote:

Was really darn hot at the Tofu Festival section, food was so so. More Thai food booths than Japanese.

Cheers, :drink:
PCM

The Tofu Fest really was bad this year. We went in and tried to get something to eat. Hopeless...Lines too long. Too hot in the sun. No tent to eat in like last year. So we left and went to the Japanese buffet. My son Gary had Saki and we all tried it. Not my thing. Too bitter. They always have delicious tempura and other goodies for which I don't know the name. Kelly enjoyed the whole thing beyond words. Her first exposure to Japanese culture.
Then a little souvenir and trinket shopping. Gary and I bought Kelly a gorgeous Blue kind of shiny blouse top for her birthday (which was today).

Finally it was time for the parade. It was incredibly good this year. About 100% better than last year. The only trouble it began at 6PM and made it difficult to get any decent pictures as it got dark pretty fast. Apparently they had the parade so late so they could show off the Nebula float in all it's grandeur as the last thing in the parade. It was spectacularly lit up. I will put up some cam clips in a few days to give you a flavor of the parade. As usual I fell madly in love with some of the girls in the parade. You will see which ones in the clips as I zoom in.

Can't wait for next Sunday and the Taiko drums and that dance obon or odon....Since that's earlier in the day I hope to get some decent pictures.
:victory:

ralphm1999 wrote:

Can't wait for next Sunday and the Taiko drums and that dance obon or odon.... :victory:

Obon dori. Here's an example from Japan:

http://robpongi.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-video-release-japanese-bon-odori.html

pcmodem wrote:Hope everyone had a good time. Bought a lot of mochi and manju at Fugetsu-do and the Mikawaya shops in the village mall and over at the 333 Alameda location as well.

Oddly, Q and I walked right by the Fugetsu-Do, but didn't buy anything (we were craving ramen and una-ju), but we hung out at the Mikawaya for a good long time and had manju and mochi ice cream... :headscratch:

cori wrote:Yeah, but tall guys = <3 :D

Yet you didn't show up for last Saturday's trip to J-town... :puppydog:

bmwracer wrote: we hung out at the Mikawaya for a good long time and had manju and mochi ice cream... :headscratch:

What flavors of manju and mochi ice cream did you guys have?

bmwracer wrote:
Yet you didn't show up for last Saturday's trip to J-town... :puppydog:

Aw, sorry about that. :( Hopefully there will be a next time and your offer still stands. ;)

cori wrote:

For a sec, I thought it wasn't a Hawaiian word since people outside of Hawaii use it too. :P

Another in a long line of exports from Hawaii, like surfing and spam musubi.

Maui no ka oi!

shin2 wrote:

Another in a long line of exports from Hawaii, like surfing and spam musubi.

And Pogs. Don't forget Pogs. :hehe:

shin2 wrote:

Hapa is a Hawaiian word. One of its earliest usages was in the term "hapa haole" (haole is also a Hawaiian word used to describe caucasians). The phrase "hapa haole" not only referred to people who were part or half white; it was (and still is) also used to describe Hawaiian songs which had English lyrics.

Ohhhhh so it doesn't necessarily refer to half asian, but half white?

When in doubt, contact Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapa

Or this exhibit they had last year at the Japanese American National Museum (which is where I got my information) http://www.janm.org/exhibits/kipfulbeck/home

cori wrote:
What flavors of manju and mochi ice cream did you guys have?

Speaking of manju...check out this monja manju...which is akin to eating monjayaki (the cousin of okonomiyaki) in a fried manju....dayem it looks good...uma so! :drooling:

a short video clip...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mgthda

cori wrote:What flavors of manju and mochi ice cream did you guys have?

Q bought some orange manju and I bought strawberry and chocolate mochi ice cream... Oishii...!!

Aw, sorry about that. :( Hopefully there will be a next time and your offer still stands. ;)

It does... August 2008 is a long ways away. :sweat:

More. :)

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Nice!! Reminds me of Seikei Bijin

gaijinmark wrote:Or this exhibit they had last year at the Japanese American National Museum (which is where I got my information) http://www.janm.org/exhibits/kipfulbeck/home

I got my information from being born in Hawaii, before it was even a state. :)

Anime Dad wrote:Nice!! Reminds me of Seikei Bijin

No Ryoko-chan, unfortunately. :puppydog:

bmwracer wrote:
Oddly, Q and I walked right by the Fugetsu-Do, but didn't buy anything (we were craving ramen and una-ju), but we hung out at the Mikawaya for a good long time and had manju and mochi ice cream... :headscratch:

yeah, the mochi ice-cream was delicious! oishii..even though i was stuffed, and B-san could have eaten another bowl of Daikokuya ramen.
can't believe it was about 99 to 100 degrees out there...:hot:

cori wrote:

And Pogs. Don't forget Pogs. :hehe:

omg, i remember pogs...ahh..from hawaii eh...
they lasted a few years...the pog craze.. :bonk:

nice photos B-san of the Nissei week, and that samurai armor on display, did you post it yet, that was cool, and about 50 lbs worth of armor!

Tu_triky wrote:

Speaking of manju...check out this monja manju...which is akin to eating monjayaki (the cousin of okonomiyaki) in a fried manju....dayem it looks good...uma so! :drooling:

a short video clip...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mgthda

Didnt download the clip, but that monja manju sounds really good. Tabeta koto aru no?

bmwracer wrote:Q bought some orange manju and I bought strawberry and chocolate mochi ice cream... Oishii...!!

I've never heard of orange manju before. Was it real orange or some processed stuff? And the strawberry and chocolate mochi ice cream sounds good. Haven't had that for quite a while.

qilver wrote:

omg, i remember pogs...ahh..from hawaii eh...
they lasted a few years...the pog craze.. :bonk:

The pog craze started way before, like in the early 80's or even before that. We used to play "milkcovers" with them. Ah, the good ol' days. :P Speaking of POG, maybe I should send people the juice when doing exchanges. ^_^