Delicious Food

We didn't do much yesterday because it was raining. We stayed inside and hung out, I studied a little bit. We went out for dinner though, and I remembered to take pictures of the food this time (I know a couple people asked). Nobu, his Mom and I went out to a place that specialized in shiyoiyaki. Shiyoiyaki is chicken where the main seasoning is a salt. They served the chicken a few pieces at a time on skewers. It ranged from fairly "normal" parts, wings and thighs (picture right), to more exotic stuff, like knee joints. The knee joints were really weird. They were like the crun chewy part that you don't normally eat because its weird. It waschyn't bad, it was just a really odd texture. We also had a salad, and shredded radish with some mushroom thing and leeks. It was also tasty.

After dinner we changed houses. We left the guest room in Nobu's parents building, and took a train, 40 minutes farther into Tokyo to stay with Nobu's Mom's friend, "Sa-chan". She met us at the train station and got us back to her house. The house has a guest room, with futons (the Japanese kind) and internet (yay!). We hung out and talked for a bit, I got to use a lot of Japanese. She thought it was really strange that Americans call beds that fold out of couches futons. Today we're going to look around, since we're farther into the center of Tokyo.

Here are some more pictures of dinner. From top to bottom: "sand gut" chicken (Nobu wasn't sure exactly what this was (edit: apparently it's stomach?)), chicken hearts, chicken thighs, and finally the knee joint pieces. Yum.




The house we're staying at now.