I sneezed….
… and all my hair fell off.
Starting a new job tomorrow as a Junior High Teacher for girls, so the Lambe’s been shorn. Do I look like a teacher?
Monthly Archive for April, 2006Page 2 of 2
The weather has been something rotten lately. Mostly rainy (a hard, driving incessant rain knocking all the blossoms off the trees) and grey (so crap for taking sakura pictures). In such times there’s not much else to do but eat. So on Wednesday I went to Cafe Peace (http://www.cafepeace.com/) on the Hyakumanben intersection, a ten minute walk from my house and 100% VEGAN (and ironically situated above a yakiniku (barbecued beef) emporium. Their speciality seems to be fake meats (chicken, pork, beef etc) that do indeed taste and even have the texture of actual meats… almost disturbingly so. More importantly, they have HEARTLAND beer (http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/kirin-heartland/16899/) and these cutesy HEARTLAND beer glasses which I was quite taken by. Anyway, the atmosphere is nice, there’s a wide range of dishes on the menu, and it’s mostly very good indeed. Worth a try… and um kind to animals… Now please compliment me on my arty pictures.
First: Thai Curry Set. Only ￥1,250！ And very tasty to boot! But the desert the menu claims is included is actually just a slice of lemon.
Second: Tofu and Miso Hot Pot. ￥１，０００．This was actually very good and if you’re a fan of fake meats the tofu-pork was actually convincingly pork-like, taste-wise, smell-wise, even texture. Impressive stuff.
Some hors d’oeuvres from Cafe Peace:
(It’s all in the presentation)
First: Harumaki (Spring Rolls) - containing not chicken but a chicken substitute that tastes almost exactly like something intended to substitute for chicken!
Second: Gyoza (steamed pork dumplings) - but minus the pork! And they taste quite - adequate…
Top: Statue of Lady with large breasts.
Next: Philippe considering the bill.
After that: Myself considering the statue with large breasts.
Last night after Philippe and Hyon Ju had finished their little language exchange, we all had dinner together. Philippe had a hankering for pizza and I for curry. We jankened (http://www.genkienglish.net/janken.htm) and I won. We went to Kerala on Kawaramachi north of Sanjo. I’ve had the lunchtime set there before (quite reasonable), and have been wanting to have a proper dinner there for a while. It’s not cheap but it’s super tasty. And as you can see, the atmosphere was scintillating. After Hyan Ju had retired for the evening, and we were left to our boyish whims, Philippe introduced me to another top bar: シクロ off Tominokoji Street, very nice place with nice friendly people, tasty Vietnamese beers and a curious book of Flower fortune-telling… (I’m lavender)… Now it may seem to some of you that don’t know me so well, having read my postings so far, that I spend all my time drinking beer in bars. This is very far from the case. I often drink at home.
I’ve had mail from Chris Cotter regarding my blog:
“I clicked on “next blog” in the upper right corner, and come on a ministers home page. Even better. Then I clicked the “next blog” again, and came upon a hottie’s home page. That was best of all.”
I pointed out he didn’t seem particularly excited by my blog. He pointed out:
“You’ve only had three days of entries… how can that compare to some guy ranting about the devil or some page with lots of pics of hot, young flesh?”
Point taken.
Tomorrow: Pictures of actual food!
It’s been raining heavily all day so I stayed in bed with Tolstoy, or rather a book on Tolstoy. Just got mail from Hyon Ju. She runs a little Sunday breadshop down by Gojo. Very tasty bread, but the weather is keeping her customers away. She reckons she’ll be lucky to sell half of it. The wider implication of this? Free bread for me if I go down there around 5 o’clock. Lots of it. Yum.
It’s All Fools!
I started my blog!
Huzzah!
