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Sengo



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Tu_triky wrote:


Very cool. Welcome back. I'm sure you had fun. Smile


Thanks! Japan was maybe 5 degrees colder than it's been here.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Sengo wrote:
They said it was sliced fairly thin and had a slight crunchy/chewy texture....nothing like eating maguro or hamachi.

Yeah, that sounds more like tako...
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Sengo wrote:


Thanks! Japan was maybe 5 degrees colder than it's been here.


Well that's reasonable....nothing a few pieces of warm clothing couldn't remedy to.
So where exactly did you go on your two week vacation?
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Tu_triky wrote:


Well that's reasonable....nothing a few pieces of warm clothing couldn't remedy to.
So where exactly did you go on your two week vacation?


Being that it was my husband's first trip to Japan we took a tour:

http://www.supervaluetours.com/c.aspx

It was really great for the first-timer. We also spent a week in Hiroshima with my relatives and toured there, too. We wanted to see the fall leaves changing colors which were absolutely beautiful. Someday we'd like to see the cherry blossoms, too.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Sengo wrote:
Being that it was my husband's first trip to Japan we took a tour:

http://www.supervaluetours.com/c.aspx

Nice...! Victory! Peace!
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Sengo wrote:


Being that it was my husband's first trip to Japan we took a tour:

http://www.supervaluetours.com/c.aspx

It was really great for the first-timer. We also spent a week in Hiroshima with my relatives and toured there, too. We wanted to see the fall leaves changing colors which were absolutely beautiful. Someday we'd like to see the cherry blossoms, too.


Cool. Smile

I had the pleasure of going to all those areas except Nara & Fuji, only over the course of two trips.

Sounds like a whirlwind tour of of Japan's major tourist destinations. Never a dull moment I'm sure! I bet it was a fun filled trip with lots to see.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Who says winter is the worst time to take a vacation to Japan???:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iq6th7f8FI&feature=youtu.be

There's a close-up of Triky @ 1:06
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

gaijinmark wrote:
Who says winter is the worst time to take a vacation to Japan???:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iq6th7f8FI&feature=youtu.be

There's a close-up of Triky @ 1:06


rofl That was hilarious. Macaque that, everybody!

Thanks for the laugh.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

gaijinmark wrote:
Who says winter is the worst time to take a vacation to Japan???:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iq6th7f8FI&feature=youtu.be

There's a close-up of Triky @ 1:06

Yikes, monkees....! bleh

rofl
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Tokyo Coffee

By OLIVER STRAND | December 16, 2011

The New York Times


Patrons sit and sip outside Nozy Coffee in Tokyo.


When I tell people that I went to Tokyo to check out the coffee, I get two reactions. One is bewilderment �\ as if I went to Denver for the surfing. The other is fascination: those who pay attention to coffee know that Japan is the world�fs third-largest importer (after the United States and Germany), with obsessive buyers who regularly land the winning bids at Cup of Excellence auctions, and that it produces the coffee gear everybody wants.

Japan�fs interest in coffee isn�ft a fad. Dutch traders first introduced the drink a little more than 400 years ago, but it wasn�ft until the port of Kobe was pried open in 1868 that coffee became widely available. Soon it was fashionable. Tokyo�fs first kissaten, or coffee shop, opened in 1888; by the 1930s there were 3,000 in the city. The supply of beans was cut off during World War II, but once it returned in the 1950s there was another coffee-shop boom. According to Masanobu Kusunoki, director of the UCC Coffee Museum in Kobe, Japan had 160,000 kissaten by the 1960s.

Today, the kissaten are disappearing, replaced by Western-style chain stores and a growing market of home brewing. Still, there are around 80,000 kissaten left in Japan, which are easy to spot in Tokyo.

More at the jump:

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/ristretto-tokyo-coffee/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

^ I'll stick with o-cha. Victory! Peace!
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

bmwracer wrote:
^ I'll stick with o-cha. Victory! Peace!


Hehe. I'd love to go to some of the those coffee shops more for the experience than anything. I eagerly bookmarked the article so that if I'm fortunate enough to visit Tokyo again, I can go. Yes!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Some places to have Christmas dinner in Tokyo: http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/eat/top-tokyo-spots-christmas-dinner-596677

I have a feeling EstherM is a regular at Hobgoblin. Drunk
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

gaijinmark wrote:
Some places to have Christmas dinner in Tokyo: http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/eat/top-tokyo-spots-christmas-dinner-596677

I have a feeling EstherM is a regular at Hobgoblin. Drunk


I feel that too!
This Christmas will be different though. I am going to binbo salary men's paradise Shinbashi for dinner and then to Shibuya to do some mean Karaoke. w00t!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

EstherM wrote:


I feel that too!
This Christmas will be different though. I am going to binbo salary men's paradise Shinbashi for dinner and then to Shibuya to do some mean Karaoke. w00t!


Sounds like you'll be making merry. Mr Green

Have to do a final shopping push tomorrow.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Eve wrote:


Sounds like you'll be making merry. Mr Green

Have to do a final shopping push tomorrow.


Hope it won't be to stressful Fingers crossed
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

^ Hey ho, hey ho, it's off to work we go..... Mr Green
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

bmwracer wrote:
^ Hey ho, hey ho, it's off to work we go..... Mr Green


Christmas hos in Japan, who wud have thunk it.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 8:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

You know what I noticed a lot, on various Japanese blogs/sites, is the use of 'Marry Christmas' instead of 'Merry Christmas.' Beaten
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