The first ramen of the trip!

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

Ostensibly the entire reason for this trip is ramen. A year ago, we were watching the show The Mind of a Chef, the first season of which featured David Chang, who had many formative experiences with ramen, and who kept coming back to ramen. After yet another episode that mentioned ramen, Toby turned to me and said “I want ramen. Let’s go to Japan.” And thus was history made.

For those of you thinking of Top Ramen and wondering why we’d want to go to Japan for it, Top Ramen is to real ramen what McDonald’s burgers are to burgers shaped from ground sirloin, thrown on the grill and grilled to that perfect temperature (I like medium well; others like medium-rare, I don’t judge), then placed lovingly onto a freshly-baked (perhaps) brioche bun and served up on the Fourth of July. You get the idea.

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Guess the Amenity

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

And now for today’s episode of What The Hell Is This Thing? Version: Guess the Amenity.

(Facebook users: the vast majority of these posts are longer than appear here. You should always click on the picture, even if there’s no indication there’s something there!)
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Waiting on the Shinkansen to Hiroshima

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Toby.

Pic below the cut, as I can’t resize it.
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Note to self

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

Sitting on the train in the Okayama station looking at the kanji on the station sign. The kanji for ‘oka’ looks like a man hanging from gravity boots in a doorway. (I already knew ‘yama’–it looks like a mountain and means ‘mountain’.)

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Ahem

Crossposted from Glamorous in Retrospect. Author: Stephanie.

Toby would like you guys who like green tea Kit Kats to know that after taste testing you can keep your green tea Kit Kats as long as he gets all the orange Kit Kats.

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