It is a fish. It is a fish filled with bean paste. It is a fish filled with bean paste that we bought from a corner stand near our hotel.
And it is good.
This is my new favorite snack food. I don’t know what it is, but the little squiggles are light and crispy and just barely kissed with salt.
Toby and I went on a photography tour, where a pro photographer takes you around and gives you tips and points out interesting things to take photos of. I’ll be posting a lot more photos after we get back, since the ipad resizing app I’m using makes them kind of crummy, but here’s six of the five hundred (!!!) photos I took in the four hours we wandered around.
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Latin/lounge cover of Manic Monday, with a mariachi breakdown.
WTF, Japan?
I was pretty surprised to see so many iPhones in use by people on the train and walking around Japan. I was under the impression that while Apple had done a lot to make their products into a desirable fashion brand here, market penetration was still pretty low. But just informally surveying the people I see, it looks like 33 to 50%.
Our photography tour guide yesterday said much the same thing when I mentioned it. German-born but living in Japan for nine years, he agreed with my guesses about the amount and the brand desirability. He also mentioned that despite what I thought, smartphones in Japan before the iPhone weren’t all that sophisticated and didn’t work that well.
Admittedly, just two data points, but I found it interesting.
- shiny puffy quilted coats
– “toggle” buttons on coats
– uggs
– ankle boots with heels
– opaque black or grey tights
– seriously mini skirts
– inappropriate footwear in bad weather. Seriously – 4″ heels in cold and rain?
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