Took a picture of this bag at a department store.

An animal and relations will become good.
Animals are alive with nature.
It is a friend wholly.

Add a “Booyah!” and you’ve got an awesome bag!

What is considered? I want to understand you. Please be together all the time. I want to know what you consider.

This bag can be yours for only 600 yen! Get it now at your local Daily Yamazaki!

I went undercover at the local grocery store (as that really tall white guy) and snapped these pictures with my phone (with a really loud CLICK CLICK!). Sometimes the price of fruit can get crazy. Famous this, famous that, from a famous place, etc etc. I’ve eaten some of these grapes and they are THE BEST grapes ever to exist! You’re probably laughing, or going “what-ev” but I’m for real. Are they worth $18? Well… only if I get or give it as a gift, or a once a year purchase. I never knew that grapes could taste this good.

I haven’t eaten any melons yet, but I think I’d save myself $20, I mean 2000 Yen, and take the melon on the left!

Yeah, more like “Mmmm… naaaaaasty…” These sea snails were big, had a fishy taste, and a strange texture. They were cooked and came to the table warm. This was my first time eating them, so I thought “what the hell” and I ate them all. You have to dig them out of the shell with a toothpick or small fork and they the end result looks a little disturbing. I’ve never eaten an eyeball, but I’d imagine it would have a similar texture.

Here are a few sea snail videos from Youtube, bleh. Read the rest of this entry »

We were doing some traveling so I we hit up a mall for some shopping and some food. That’s when I ran across this beast! For ¥390 I could have eaten two feet of egg rolls! These are the most awkward egg rolls I’ve ever seen, somebody could use them as weapons.

I thought this sign was funny. Because

1. It was in front of a chain restaurant entrance trying to get me to enter
2. It sounds like I was bartering with them for a while
3. 5% is a discount, not a bargain, and no where close to a final bargain

Now here’s what a Final Bargain should look like, up to 70% off, hellz yeah!

For just 298 yen you could be enjoying some watermelon Kit-Kat candy right now! When I think of candy in Japan I think of Kit Kat because it’s popular here and comes in a variety of flavors. Skittles needs to launch a world wide campaign! Everybody should know that Skittles it the #1 candy, great for all occasions, and they should be sitting here hanging out with the Kit Kats!

This is my first experience with Chugen. Chugen (also called Ochugen) was originally a day that people gave gifts to the ancestral spirits. Shopping at Iwataya was amazing, there was one huge area dedicated to picking out gifts and a waiting area for sending them out. We sent the gift of… fish eggs! I took this picture with my camera phone. I didn’t think of taking a picture of the entire store, doh. The first picture were the choices we used, the 2nd picture are the eggs and fish stuffed with eggs.

The first Friday this August we went to a summer festival. I don’t know the official term besides ‘awesome’! Most people wore a yukata (looks like a kimono) or jinbei (shirt and shorts outfit), Fireworks lasted about 90 minutes, and the vendors sold crazy foods. It was about hot, about 85 F (29.5 C) with 90% humidity.

There were breaks between some of the firework explosions to announce sponsors of the event on a loudspeaker. I’ve never seen this before. I wonder how much an ad placement costs. One sponsor was Coca Cola and a big bottle of coke lit up near the end, but I didn’t get a picture of it.

Kids were using a flat paper net to catch goldfish, and turtles! It was ¥100 per try and they were doing great even though the net break easily. Food like grilled meat on a stick, takoyaki, dangly tentacles, and other mystery meat ran ¥400-500. Here are a few pictures.

Summer festival fireworks

"I like Turtles!"

Mmm... grilled tentacles

Takoyaki aka Octopus

I hit up the local Round 1 with a group of friends for a game night. We had a good time playing video games, ping pong, using the batting cages, karaoke, and one of the coolest places was the relaxation area with massage chairs. I had to get a picture of the sign posted before entering. It kind of looks like somebody used an online translator which is a bit strange because there are companies offering translation services for a small fee (less than $1 a word or $35 a page) to translate Japanese to English.