I'm starting to make friends!I've also become friends with one of the guys that works at Mos Burger. On Friday I went out with him and a couple of friends to an izakaya. Izakayas are Japanese style bars that also serve food. Pretty snazzy. I got udon noodles topped with shrimp tempura and a side of french fries.
While we were there I tried natto. Natto is fermented/rotten soybean paste. It's not really that good. In fact, it's nasty. I think Japan should look into uninventing it. Yes, I know I just posted a picture of me standing next to Colonel Sanders, and yes, I know that by doing so I have lost all credibility when it comes to the culinary arts, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm right about this natto thing.
In Japan 99 out of 100 cars are Japanese. The first foreign vehicle I saw was this jeep...and it was for sale. If I had the green and an international driver's license I would buy this beast.Sadly over here gas is even more expensive than back in the states and from what I've heard, the roads are even more dangerous.
When I took Modern Japanese History at UCD, one of the course's key concepts was Japan's rise to modernity. There was intense debate and discussion within the country about whether modernization and Westernization were the same, and if in fact they were different could modernization be achieved without Westernization. It remains a controversial and complicated topic today.
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