01 12 2004

Wed, 01 Dec 2004

Photo blog

Not much luck with the diet. I'll get there eventually.

I finally got around to processing the rest of the photos from the Fukuoka trip. I've added comments to some of them.

Browse away: a trip to the Fukuoka sumo

One thing I didn't get photos of were the yattais. A yattai is a little restaurant run out of a van or cart. They range from something akin to a gypsy cart, to complicated fold-out things that don't resemble a car at all, lest you catch a glimpse of the spare wheel mounted somewhere. They generally fold out enough to allow 5-10 people to sit inside the covered area, and it's like eating at a tiny restaurant.

Fukuoka is famous for them, so we decided that a trip to one (or two) after the sumo was in order. Unfortunately, we picked the most well-known strip of yattais to go to, and it ended up being rather expensive. Two sticks of "gyuutan" - cow tongue - which would have cost maybe $6 in a normal yakitori place - ended up costing about $23. We realised the price after ordering. Oh well, it was a fun experience.

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