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I think I’ve become a housewife.
I mean. I work from home, so it’s easy to do the laundry / dishes, etc if I need to step away from my inbox for a few mintues. I make jon lunch and breakfast, and if we don’t go out, I make dinner. I clean because our housekeeper’s a deadbeat. My feminist 17-year-old self would be appalled.
Eff that. I’m buying some overpriced wine and going on strike.
Beer
You know the sentiment, “you don’t know how good you have it, until you’re gone”? Beer. As I keep moving around, beer seems to get more and more expensive. In Milwaukee, I would never have considered $12 for a six pack a bargain. On a good day in Denver I could buy a six pack of fat tire for $6.5. Seattle brought that number to $9.
So why, in Yokohama, am I *stoked* to find Kirin for $2/beer? (That makes a $12 six pack for all you fellow art-school kids.) It’s absurd!
On a similar note, yesterday I was out at a cafe and the sodas / juice / sparkling water was all in the $5-$7 range. I ordered a gin and tonic for $6.5.
Tell me, what is the incentive to stay sober if EVERYTHING is expensive?
Dear Japan, I love you.
What’s that he said? "Broccoli Ocarina! Big Size!" For a little bit of Christmas magic…
Thanks to chief, and the slog, for the link.
Lunch time, in the office.
On a personal level, I am opposed to the stir-fry-mix packages and just-add-water noodle bowls. I think it’s cheating. I *enjoy* cooking. It’s like… my hobby.
Okay. So Japan, meet Hobby. Hobby, this is…. what? Hobby, you don’t like Japan? Well, perhaps you just haven’t been properly introduced.
See. The thing is.
Judging by the standard restaurant fare, I think they eat noodle bowls and soup here at home, like all the time. So I’ve been wondering… how do they make the soup? How is it that everything in a restaurant taste so uniformly… good and healthy? Have I been doing it wrong? Is everything I know about “Asian Cooking” one big fat sake-induced lie created by the Food Network? perhaps. At first glance, it seems that the packaged fresh-noodle-and-sauce thing is where it’s at.
A recipe for finding your calm center, in the Japanese kitchen:
1. The ingredients may look the same, they probably don’t taste like what you remember.
2. Find vegetables. Vegetables, meet saute pan. Saute pan, meet noodles.
3. Pour soup mix and hot water over all of the above. Slurp noodles and drink broth from the side of the bowl.
