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[xlaire]

Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce to you.... onigiri!

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[cartographer]

That looks nyom. Is it snackfood or dinnerfood? Why don't we get stuff like that?

[xlaire]

its an everything food!

due my complete lack of cullinary skillz, its my breakfast, lunch and dinner.

due to the japanese working 13 hour days (no exaggeration!), they just grab one whenever.

you can get them in any conbinis. (Lawsons make the best - I've done extensive research.)

[omnimowse]

Do you get free lump of wasabi with it, like in Aya? :)

[xlaire]

thank christ, no.

[mackers]

Mmmm, onigiri looks good.

The sake thing has always confused me; isn't it a beverage?

[xlaire]

oh, oh - i know the answer!

i just found out last week.

the drink is sake, as we all know. salmon is sake too, but is pronounced sha-ke.

spent the last 7 months thoroughly confused about that. never knew quite what to expect when teachers offered me sake. it could easily have gone either way.

[mackers]

ahh. that helps.

except when sean connery offers it.

[trjh]

Hooray for Japan. My little sister (who does not live there, but in Boulder, CO) eats just the dried seaweed as a snack. Enough that she took a packet or two on holiday to Italy.

I seem to recall some trouble finding vegetarian food in the LSI Tsukuba(sp?) corporate cafeteria when I was there, but they had little packets of spices that went very nicely on a bowl of rice. I wish I knew what was in them, or could find them here.

When I was there (for only three weeks) I also got to experience the mind-numbing 13 hour days. Especially fun was the pre-work meeting with the customer, and the post-work meeting with the customer. Mostly in Japanese, which I had/have about 20 words of. Sitting politely for an hour when you wanted to go home ages ago, listening to people discuss technical problems in another language, is not fun.

[penexpers]

Argh. I need to reapply again next year. That looks so cool.