Tuesday, June 2, 2009
First day
Today we went on our bicycle tour around the city of hikone, which was my first real look at the city in daylight. It’s beautiful here! The modern day buildings mingle with the old fashioned ones; occasionally the buildings give way to beautiful gardens, temples or rice paddies. Lake Biwa stretches off as far as the eye can see on one side, and you can see the shadows of mountains in the distance. The weather is great too, it started off a bit too chilly for my light weight shorts and T-shirt but quickly became warm. The wind is blowing gently and the sun is shining. We went to the nearby store, equivalent to meijer , and bought stuff for our apartments. At the store we bought some ramen. I meant to get shoju ramen, it looked good in the picture, but got miso instead, which worked out great because I liked the miso better, it was amazing! And it was two or three serving’s worth for only 380 yen!! (note that 380 yen is roughly equivalent to $3.80) My roommate, Jessica, and I made shopping a team effort. It was a fun adventure. I am apparently in charge of the cooking, which suits me fine. We had some trouble getting all the stuff home, and one of our eggs broke. Now we are finishing up some paperwork and such. I have to study tonight because the placement exam is tomorrow.
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Is it fancy Ramen? The kind we buy here is like 15 cents for a year's supply (ok, ok, it's more like 15 cents per serving but you get the point). Assuming it is indeed fancy Ramen, is it clearly superior like Jif peanut butter and Kellogg's pop-tarts, or is it just "classier" like the expensive soap and laundry detergent?
ReplyDeleteit was made fresh. It was a ramen shop at the food court, like McDonalds (which was also there). It's the difference between those really cheap sushi boxes you get from meijer and the really good stuff you get fresh from a restaurant.
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