April - July: Odd n' Ends
Here is a little bit of this and that from over the summer before Terry left.
McDonald's Japanese competition is def Mos Burger. Just like the BK VS Mickey D's debate in America --it's Mos Burger VS McDonald's here. But at the end of the day McDonald's is still number one in the World Japan.
Back in May Terry took me to finally try it. He didn't really care for it but I can't leave Japan without the "bragging" rights!
Mos Burger has it's... Mos Burger, like a Big Mac, number one on the menu, you know. And the thing Mos Burger is famous for is having a chili as a topping. Yeah, kinda weird and very messy.
They do have other cool things on the menu like burgers with "rice" buns (think of Chinese Bun/dumplings), hotdogs (with that chili on top), fried chicken, rice dishes, etc. I actually think it's a pretty cool alternative to a Western fast food chain.
And here is a link to the Japanese menu if want to take a look.
Terry goofing around while we waited for our food on the second floor. Next to us was a glassed in room for smokers as Japan still has smoking in pretty much every place. At least they were separated here. :)
Behind him in the corner is where you take your trash and tray when you're done. In Fast Food places in Japan you usually separate the trash for them. Plastics, burnables, even dump out the ice for them. Lazy Americans would never do that. Lol.
Around the corner a man was selling Takoyaki from his truck, meaning he made them in his truck. So for 500 yen I got a snack for later. Terry won't touch them because of the Octopus stuffing. >D
In May we brought over some our Japanese friends (and one of Terry's coworkers) for some American BBQ. Terry made some of what he does best --Pork Shoulder and ribs, slow cooked. MMMMmmmmMMmmm.
It was a lot of firsts for Seika and Tak that night, so besides the BBQ it was American Video games like Rock Band. Tak picked it right up, though. Seika even had a good go.
It was pretty much throw all the American you could at them. Beer, food, games, drinks, TV, etc. Don't worry, we weren't showing off, they were generally interested and that's why they came. Well, maybe Terry was showing off a little bit. J/k, j/k.
I think we over fed them, but they loved it. You can't go wrong when Terry cooks pork. And Tak isn't in a bad mood in that picture, he's just quite drunk. :)
Before Terry left in May we tried a new Yakiniku place located above one of our train stations and on the eigth floor. Cool.
They had an English menu (YESSSS) and lots of menu options. They even had all you could eat plans, one being a drink option. My kind of place!
The green drink was a chuhi were you juiced your own melon for the flavour. It was kinda cool seeing as those melons go for $10 plus in the stores. And no, the drink didn't cost that much. Huh.
I made a couple large purchases in June while Terry was thousands of miles away. Oops.
It's cool, I told him I bought them! Um...
Anyway, as you can see they just kinda dropped the furniture off. I had to put it all together. Fun. The mirror on the dresser and all the little handles and knobs were tedious but the bed... was not. It wouldn't snap together! My neighbors were probably thinking I was having a mental breakdown because I was banging the headboard against the wall trying to get it all together.
I finally had a moment of smart genius and unscrewed the pieces... yeah, they had put the brackets in the wrong spots. Boy that was a lot of fun unscrewing everything and putting it back on again in the correct spot! :D
In the next post I'll show you the finished product~~~
The computer luckily just had to have a couple wires plugged in and then turned on. Thank you, Mac.
And then of course the city of Yokosuka hosted fireworks for the Americans on July 4th. I just walked out of my building to watch them. Pretty cool.
So next post will be the inside of our box, er, apartment. OH BOY!