Out of curiosity, do the capsules themselves have A/C outlets inside them? For say charging your phone while you sleep or if you need an electric blanket or whatnot.
I used to instigate this with one of my Hawaiian friends. I'd always point to her and say "she taught me everything."
Nothing this egregious. Like, this is obviously hyperbole, but generally, they just kind of direct questions at the Japanese person, and respond politely when you pipe up with something to say.
In foreigner bars in Taiwan I generally get wait staff that resolutely use English with me even when I refuse English menus or order from memory because I've been to the place often enough to know what I want, but pretty much every place else in Taiwan I never get this at all, as soon as I speak Mandarin there's usually relief and a follow up question on how long I've been living in Taiwan. I chalk the English-only up to the staff wanting to keep their English going as much as possible or a manager's insistence, and try not to take it personal even though it bugs me a bit.
I met up with a Swiss friend in Zurich the other week. His English is excellent but he'd brought his sister along, and she was less fluent, so I was mostly speaking German to her and a mix with him. We hit up a restaurant - and he explicitly asks the wait staff for an English menu for me. I'm like "...dude."
Out of curiosity, do the capsules themselves have A/C outlets inside them? For say charging your phone while you sleep or if you need an electric blanket or whatnot.
Capsule hotels are such a neat idea. Just make the rooms a bed and nothing else, then make everything else nicer because you get so much more out of the space you have.
My capsule hotel was not nearly so nice. But it was also a lot cheaper. Of course one of the reasons it was so cheap is that it turned out to be in an area of tokyo full of prostitutes.
The only real downside of nicer capsule hotels is due to the way they are set up they tend to be one gender only set ups, or atleast different genders per floor at a minimum. Can make traveling as a group troublesome.
Ok I'm looking at this furikake stuff online and as someone who eats a lot of rice it looks like something I need; there are some with fish flakes and some without, can someone who's had it offer an opinion? Fish necessary, no?
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Ok I'm looking at this furikake stuff online and as someone who eats a lot of rice it looks like something I need; there are some with fish flakes and some without, can someone who's had it offer an opinion? Fish necessary, no?
Furikake is dried seaweed. Green flakes. I dunno what you mean by extra fish flakes. But furikake is great on rice no matter what you get?
Ok I'm looking at this furikake stuff online and as someone who eats a lot of rice it looks like something I need; there are some with fish flakes and some without, can someone who's had it offer an opinion? Fish necessary, no?
Furikake is dried seaweed. Green flakes. I dunno what you mean by extra fish flakes. But furikake is great on rice no matter what you get?
Furikake is a mix of things, typically dried and ground fish flakes, seaweed, sugar, salt and MSG. Some have bonito flakes, some have powdered miso, etc etc
There are many kinds of furikake. You can find them in most asian food grocers, and sometimes in mainstream markets. Even Amazon has furikake without bonito.
It's also good on top of eggs, potatoes, and fish.
Actually, on the topic of Japanese food, I recommend these youtube channels: RunnyRunny999, Cooking with Ai, and the unfortunately named Cooking with Dog (which does not contain any dog meat recipes).
飛べねぇ豚はただの豚だ。
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It's irrational, I know, but I just don't like the Ken Tanaka character.
But his Japanese is so good! Hearing David Ury speak is like being stabbed in the ear. It's like, "I remember my first day of reading romanji too." edit: fuck! they're the same person?! That's what I get for making a hasty judgment.
Though I linked the video, I've only had one bad experience trying to speak to a native Japanese person, and it was actually in Little Tokyo L.A. There was a little shop there that sold a bunch of knick-knacks and things like tamago-yaki pans and a grouchy old woman there who wouldn't speak to me at all, in Japanese or English. I was still a beginner and in college so I just figured my accent was awful. I've never really had a bad experience in Japan itself. I mean, other than all the pushy mama-sans in Shibuya and Shinjiku after hours. I don't really know what to tell you Brainleech, but that sucks that you had such a bad experience.
I'll tell you one of the best experiences that I had though. I was meeting a friend and looking for landmarks that were a bit obscure. A man a little older than me noticed me wandering on the map and offered help in some really broken English. He ended up escorting me to the meeting place which was about a half mile's walk. I'm sure speaking the language helped, but this was only the latest of many of these experiences that I've had. But again I'm sure a lone foreigner is a lot more approachable than a group of military guys, and we do stand out.
Ok I'm looking at this furikake stuff online and as someone who eats a lot of rice it looks like something I need; there are some with fish flakes and some without, can someone who's had it offer an opinion? Fish necessary, no?
Furikake is dried seaweed. Green flakes. I dunno what you mean by extra fish flakes. But furikake is great on rice no matter what you get?
Furikake is a mix of things, typically dried and ground fish flakes, seaweed, sugar, salt and MSG. Some have bonito flakes, some have powdered miso, etc etc
It's pretty much all delicious though.
Great, thanks. Checking online the main difference between types was whether it had bonito or some other kind of fish flaked into it or not. I'll get a few kinds, we'll see how it goes.
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I think it's just called The Capsule Inn, very close to Shimbashi station
Just over 4000 yen per night, 5000 if you want to spring for the VIP cubicles
Which I did
Corn and mayo?
Okay. Fine.
Corn, mayo, and shrimp?
I must destroy you before the sickness spreads.
Witness.
Well let's go see
That little tablet to the side lets you get a 3DS charger or a fan or whatever sent to your cubicle
That pillow is memory foam
I'm pretty sure there's an inbuilt alarm that wakes you up with lights instead of sound
Also, yes
The only real downside of nicer capsule hotels is due to the way they are set up they tend to be one gender only set ups, or atleast different genders per floor at a minimum. Can make traveling as a group troublesome.
... this TV has on demand movies
The selection's not huge and you have to pay extra whoops OK that's the adult section
For anyone who can't read Kanji, Oyakodon means "Mother and Child Rice Bowl"
It is rice with chicken and egg. It is seriously delicious.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
You gotta add "mother" and "father" characters in there separately, 母親，父親。
I like to think that you discovered the porn in the middle of typing that post.
Like we can trust anything you say, anus tart.
Crap. They're on to me.
Furikake is a mix of things, typically dried and ground fish flakes, seaweed, sugar, salt and MSG. Some have bonito flakes, some have powdered miso, etc etc
It's pretty much all delicious though.
It's also good on top of eggs, potatoes, and fish.
http://www.nichifuri.co.jp/products/collabo.html
but in the meantime, all i can think of when i see the name is
But his Japanese is so good! Hearing David Ury speak is like being stabbed in the ear. It's like, "I remember my first day of reading romanji too." edit: fuck! they're the same person?! That's what I get for making a hasty judgment.
Though I linked the video, I've only had one bad experience trying to speak to a native Japanese person, and it was actually in Little Tokyo L.A. There was a little shop there that sold a bunch of knick-knacks and things like tamago-yaki pans and a grouchy old woman there who wouldn't speak to me at all, in Japanese or English. I was still a beginner and in college so I just figured my accent was awful. I've never really had a bad experience in Japan itself. I mean, other than all the pushy mama-sans in Shibuya and Shinjiku after hours. I don't really know what to tell you Brainleech, but that sucks that you had such a bad experience.
I'll tell you one of the best experiences that I had though. I was meeting a friend and looking for landmarks that were a bit obscure. A man a little older than me noticed me wandering on the map and offered help in some really broken English. He ended up escorting me to the meeting place which was about a half mile's walk. I'm sure speaking the language helped, but this was only the latest of many of these experiences that I've had. But again I'm sure a lone foreigner is a lot more approachable than a group of military guys, and we do stand out.
Great, thanks. Checking online the main difference between types was whether it had bonito or some other kind of fish flaked into it or not. I'll get a few kinds, we'll see how it goes.
I just wanted to mention that this looks exactly, like strikingly similar, to where I grew up, which is nowhere near Japan
like a dang cat to cat nip
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Please enjoy Jun's beautiful cat and insane knifework
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Also that cat is fucking adorable.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Now you got me curious, where did you grow up?
He made a typo, he's from Nowhere Near, Japan.
outside Snohomish, Washington
it's a big valley with a lot of farm and dairy land
up north in Skagit County it's like that, too
Yeah, I was gunna say. That's basically the Skagit Valley right there.
yeah man that second picture looks just like that one stretch of I-5
Whoah weird coincidence, I first heard of Snohomish literally yesterday when a Shadowrun podcast talked about running an adventure there.
I'll keep that in mind, now that I am back in LA I really miss that kind of country side and going to Washington would be way cheaper than Japan.
northern Washington ain't a bad place to visit if you're into rural living
also the section on Snohomish in the shadowrun 4e Seattle sourcebook is like, shockingly accurate