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I have discovered yet another delicious Japanese snack -
mochi. It`s basically rice-pastry cakes filled with an (bean paste), and
they are calorific but delicious. I am hopelessly addicted to an. I never
thought I'd find something I'd like more than chocolate until I discovered
an.
The mochi were found in a little alleyway near the bank, where there are
lots of little traditional Japanese shops selling food and clothes. Have
any of you watched the film Spirited Away? Well, in that there are these
little soot-sprite creatures called Dust Bunnies, who eat these colourful
star-shaped sweets called kompeitou. Well, in this alleyway, I found a
packet of kompeitou. I was so surprised, its quite an unusual sweet!
Didn't actually buy them, but they'd make a good present for any Spirited
Away fans.
Once again, we all ended up going to another nomihoudai/tabehoudai (all
you can eat/drink) place on Friday night, and it was great fun. The place
had a really nice atmosphere - each table was in its own private alcove,
creating a sense of intimacy, and the food was already prepared when we
got there! We all stuffed ourselves and got rather merry on our unlimited
drinks (I was on some sort of lemonade cocktail which was delicious), and
then Tom decided that we should all go to one of those photo-booths where
you make stickers of your photos.
After that, we rounded the night off with another trip to Sanctuary, which
tonight was packed full of gaijin - possibly as many gaijin as there were
Japanese. Had even more drinks there (kaluha and milk is yummy!), and at
about 2am we decided that we should possibly think about going home. Got
in at 3am.
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