Food, Japan, Peak Oil, Politics
A Night of Japanese food and booze
This weekend was most enjoyable. A few friends popped round to our house, so they could be treated to some Japanese food and Sake! Most of them were people had come over to Japan back in December 2005 for our wedding ceremony… though they’d been making their own Japanese food back in the UK since then anyway.
It was good fun, though Yuko was rather busy in the kitchen. I did offer to cook some of the items, I mean, how hard is it to deep fry some ‘koroke’ (ころけ)… but I was told before hand pretty clearly that I’d probably screw it up and I should leave the expert do it.
My job was to turn on the hot plate and cook the okonomiyaki… but then one of my mates (and now Okonomiyaki addict) felt that his cooking skills were better so I left him to hit
To be fair, his efforts were a lot better than mine.
After polishing off a large chunk of food (with plenty left over for me and Yuko to have the Sunday night as well) we cracked open so two bottles of Sake (one being the unfiltered type, that has some rather dodgy white sediment at the bottom… leading to much joking about ‘man juices’, sheeshhh), and also a bottle of Umeshu (Plum liquer).
A fun night, and I for one was mighty happy, since it’s been 3 months since I last ate Okonomiyaki myself!
In the news
Australia does something environmentally friendly. Fantastic!
Rather disturbing reports from Japan about the treatment of patients.
Bogue over at Arakawa Riverview put up a great little post (20th Feb), on his views to how Japan has reacted to new PM, Shinzo Abe.
2007 Feb 20 Gavin
Why thank you for the kind words, you are most kind -hope Wales can score a try this weekend…;)
ROFL! If Wales manage a try… the French will probably stick about 5 on us
Must say, my enthusiasm is not particulary high… but I’ll still watch the game. Maybe the French will have one of there off-days (fingers crossed). Ireland-England should be interesting game though… bit of a concern about Johnny though, with that late fitness test being planned. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/english/6386745.stm)
Not a good weekend for England or Wales – and as for Scotland, ho ho ho :-0
If I wasn’t Welsh (or English or Scottish), then this weekend’s rugby was quite fun… a real try-fest compared to the tedium of the previous weekend’s rugby.
Shame our teams were just on the wrong end of it all though!
Yuko has decided that she doesn’t like watching Wales play. She gets too frustrated when they play well for a bit, and then fall apart and play like idiots. Me…. 20 years of practice means I just drink beer and think, “typical”.
What I’m annoyed about though is why didn’t Scotland play the same daft way against Wales.