I have no idea what this is an ad for, but it's a Geisha and a Ninja riding a panda. In there background you can see two ninjas fighting. I'd like to think this is what it's like when you live in Japan for long enough. I'd get my panda license.
A wolf mask (I think) in a store window. 
Rowen with two costumed individuals.
Rowen's hand with a celebrities. I'm going to guess it's Ted Dansons.
Greg Forsberg and the Order of the Metal Hand. This photo is upside down because I wanted my right hand in the shot and my left hand couldn't hit the shutter from the left.
Rowen getting Handsy.
This is a wolf, and apparently there is a song that says his name, and how his balls are swinging in the wind. A very common statue apparently.
Ghosts eating Japanese spaghett.Spaghett!
This will become more and more common as summer approaches. 
This will become more and more common as summer approaches. 
This is at the cleansing station outside the Sensojo temple.
Cleansing station outside Sensojo temple. 
These were an ad for a company that was visible from the temple square.
Cleansing station outside Sensojo temple. 
These were an ad for a company that was visible from the temple square.
Five Story Pagoda
God's sandal, standing at four point five metres.
God's sandal, standing at four point five metres.
Nitenmon gate
These were the shutter doors on the shops near the temple. 
These were the shutter doors on the shops near the temple. 
Kaminarimon gate 
Row took me to a ramen restaurant near our hostel that she really likes. For those of you who I did not explain this to already, some places here have a different way of ordering food. There is a machine outside that has buttons with the names of all the different food you can buy. You put your money in the machine and press the food you would like to order. It dispenses a ticket which you give to the cook. In the interest of pursuing my "Things I've never eaten before" challenge I picked a random button. This was the result. 
Row took me to a ramen restaurant near our hostel that she really likes. For those of you who I did not explain this to already, some places here have a different way of ordering food. There is a machine outside that has buttons with the names of all the different food you can buy. You put your money in the machine and press the food you would like to order. It dispenses a ticket which you give to the cook. In the interest of pursuing my "Things I've never eaten before" challenge I picked a random button. This was the result. Sight Test: Fried egg on top of fried pork on top of rice with sauce.
Smell Test: It smells like egg. I think I can also smell fish sauce
Sound Test: Like a million voices crying out and were suddenly eaten.
Touch Test: The egg felt like egg, it's rubbery. I don't think the rice really warrants a touch description. And the meat, which I'm assuming is pork, felt like fried pork.
Taste Test: I am now pretty sure it's pork, and the sauce is fish sauce.
NINJA EDIT: I have more details on this, I just need to find my notes.
That be Katsudon....I've had that...some places make it better than others. Theoretically the sauce is tonkatsu sauce. I have no idea what's in it. And the white mask is Kitsune, a fox demon, I believe.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my fave posts so far because I LOVE food related blog posts w/photos! How did Rowen like the Japanese spaghetti?? That udon soup looks real yummy. I want some now
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