Monday, June 14, 2004

"Tokyo remains the world’s most expensive city, according to the latest cost of living survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting released Monday. London was ranked 2nd, Moscow 3rd, with Osaka and Hong Kong rounding out the top five most expensive cities.”

This evening I went to a traditional Japanese restaurant with some of my friends. I ate an amazing variety of foods and had a lot of fun. In fact, I ate many foods I thought I thought I would never eat. Some of the more interesting foods I ate were whole small shrimp, fugu (blowfish - the one that is poisonous), and squirrel (that little furry animal that runs around eating nuts) as well as some sort of kimchi fish intestines. Some of the more traditional foods were takoyaki, udon, tempura, yakisoba, sushi and sashimi. There were others but I just can’t remember everything I ate. I also figured out that I really like うめサワー (for those who can read it). Now I must really sleep. Below are some pictures, but please forgive the quality as they were taken with my kaetai (cellphone).

This is the squirrel..