Herro Flom Japan

It's Friday, I'm starting on my way home and I was hungry for a snack so I bought a bag of tempura fried squid. They look like potato chips or some other salted carbohydrate snack. Apparently, if you're not eating them, they don't smell so nice. I was eating them out of the bag when [...]

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The only good thing that comes to mind about living a spartan life limited to home, commuting and work is that it doesn't take much at all to make me happy.

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It smells like a bonfire made from burning tires on a New Jersey beach at low tide on a hot summer day. Guess which family resturant. Easy question for anyone who's lived in Japan.

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This is the kind of news from Japan I suspect is the norm. Am I right or wrong? I'll admit that it's a fact, as reported a few days ago by the Asahi Shimbun, that that a town called Omachi in Nagano Prefecture is selling rice crackers with wholesome waspy goodness baked right in. But [...]

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It's lunchtime, swimming just let out and the department store shoppers are also hungry. The line to the register snakes through the restaurant and out the back door. I have nothing better to do while waiting in line, ergo, I'm unnecessarily blogging. Who knows, maybe somebody out there was wondering what a McDonald's in Japan [...]

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