Kindness of a random stranger
April 27th, 2009
This weekend something interesting happend to me. I was sitting in McDonalds (I know its unhealty) and eating a Hamburger.
The thing costs only 100 yen and for that price its a really cheap and quick supper. It was already quite late so I just wanted quickly to eat something. Well I was sitting there and eating while a elder japanese woman was staring at me. She was maybe 70 or so. So, well she stared at me and I got annoyed for a moment and looked back, smiling. She smiled back and left me alone (looked some other way). I didn't think much of it and continued eating my food. I didn't have anything to drink but I thought, hey, just buy yourself later in the late-night supermarket something.
She got up and went to the counter to buy something leaving her things unattended at the seat. I found that not so good but hey, it's japan and here its a bit safer than in other places around the world. Well, she came back and put a coffee cup with extra milk and sugar in-front of me and said I should drink something.
As you can imagine I was totally baffled and kindly refused. I tried talking to her and seemed she just found it too terrible just eating something and the coffee was so cheap too (120 yen) so no problem. I thanked her and tried to talk to her until her husband came who was totally confused why she was talking to not only a stranger but a foreigner here in japan. Very amusing.
This was the first time a random stranger was kind to me here. I'll not forget that.
Anyway I just wanted to share this interesting, friendly and memorable coincidence with you.
Have a good start into the week!
Cambodian Beer
December 27th, 2007
Today I got something less serious for you !
My lab was in Cambodia for a 3D digitalizing project (Unesco) and they bought us this back as a okashi (present). I think I will keep it as a souvenir ;)
Do you think I should try it ?
For the knowledge hungry:
,,Tasty'' food in Japan made Chinese style
June 7th, 2007
Some time ago I had the chance to go to a nice Chinese restaurant here in Japan located near Ikebukuro. After being surprised how huge the menu was (at least 40 double sided pages full with text) and the trouble with actually being able to decide something from that vast input I found these ,,delicious'' and amusing items.
Freshly fried silkworm larvae
Delicious fried scorpion on rice.
I don't know if you would have enjoyed that but I stuck to the ,,normal'' stuff. ^^