紅茶を飲まなきゃ

Edibles and Explore

Noms.

So I thought I'd tell you guys a bit about what I'm eating while I'm here. This is mostly for you guys who think (like my mum) that everybody in Japan plucks fish from the sea then consumes it directly. Well contrary to expectation I've only eaten one bit of raw fish so far, but I did come across some 明太子 which looks like it means "brightly fat child" but in fact means fermented pollock roe. O_o

Squiddy noodles

Yellow Kiwi?

Beany squish rounds

So let me explain a little bout what each of these is: The first is a nifty sort of noodle pot where you add the water and squiddy cabbages first then close the lid and let it cook, after which you put in the sauce and TADA noodles :). (the drink behind is 'aquarius', a sort of isotonic water good for us pasty foreigners that get all our ions sapped by the zapping of the sun.

Right, the second I don't even know what they are. However they did come A la melted plastic... as apparently our microwave is like a nuclear reactor and anything you put in becomes instantly like the surface of Betelgeuse within 10 seconds. This includes plastic cases. The round things themselves appeared to be like a veggy dumpling with beans in, yummy yummy.

The latter is self explanatory but also COOL. look at it, thats a kiwi but YELLOW. sadly they aren't particularly tasty as they taste of a normal kiwi that had around 4 tablespoons of sugar tipped on it. I also have about 5 left (cry)

 Wanderings

I'm not going to hide it, the main reason I left my room in the 30 odd degrees heat was because I had no sugar for my tea. I was perfectly happy to sit here with my air-con on and not go out but the tea-need struck so off I went. Heres a few pictures of just outside where I live on the way to the shop.

Bigger road with cables

Windy road

So no it's not hugely spectacular but that isn't the nice bit. ;) Well I have to have something to write for the future, cant have you guys losing interest. I live around 3 stops from Shinjuku <-- thats the place that when you think 'Tokyo' its appearance is what you imagine. SO thats to come.

Anyway, I did find sugar and milk (though all of it is UHT here as Japan has no cow space)

Shower fails.

There's been around 3 shower fails so far. 

1. On my way around I did not however find any shower gel so I will have to go on another venture soon or when my travel soap runs out I will smell and nobody will talk to me.

2. The water heater is entirely in Japanese as you would expect, but after 10 minutes my water was till chilling to the touch and due to being impatient I went and asked how to work it (just incase I had read it wrong). So the nice Japanese guy came to help and merely explained I had to wait for it, and obviously the instant he turned it on instead of the arctic shards of a moment before the water was a lovely warm temperature, akin to being embraced by a thousand swan necks, making me look like a royal plonker.

3. I pressed the wrong button and now the wall unit for the heater keeps talking to me. 

The culprit. 

I'm going to go try and get it to shut up again now, so stay tuned for showerly updates! byeee.