Hiroshima

[PaloAltoCougar]

Yes, eat the real ononomiyaki. Also, if you're up for working-man level dives, Gyoza no Osho. There are plenty in Kyoto. Have the gyoza; the best in Japan (IMHO).

I am nothing if not obedient. We're in Kyoto now and we had our guide take us to his favorite okonomiyaki place (really good, and we have a video of ours being made which I'll watch on Fast Sundays as a kind of self-flagellatory penance), and then last night we joined the locals at the nearby Gyoza no Osho where we put away an embarrassingly large number of those delights. Today for lunch we had a couple of large ramen bowls (Ippudo) so we've done a pretty nice survey of Japanese cuisine in our short time here. The last supper (we're going home tomorrow) will probably be another sushi fest.

[myboynoah]

I am nothing if not obedient. We're in Kyoto now and we had our guide take us to his favorite okonomiyaki place (really good, and we have a video of ours being made which I'll watch on Fast Sundays as a kind of self-flagellatory penance), and then last night we joined the locals at the nearby Gyoza no Osho where we put away an embarrassingly large number of those delights. Today for lunch we had a couple of large ramen bowls (Ippudo) so we've done a pretty nice survey of Japanese cuisine in our short time here. The last supper (we're going home tomorrow) will probably be another sushi fest.

Awesome! You da man, Pac (and fils). Nothing embarrassing about eating a large number of gyoza, especially from Gyoza no Osho.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I am nothing if not obedient. We're in Kyoto now and we had our guide take us to his favorite okonomiyaki place (really good, and we have a video of ours being made which I'll watch on Fast Sundays as a kind of self-flagellatory penance), and then last night we joined the locals at the nearby Gyoza no Osho where we put away an embarrassingly large number of those delights. Today for lunch we had a couple of large ramen bowls (Ippudo) so we've done a pretty nice survey of Japanese cuisine in our short time here. The last supper (we're going home tomorrow) will probably be another sushi fest.

Well done brother. Well done.

[PaloAltoCougar]

mbn and JL, it's awesome that you, my intended readers, were actually awake and vigilant when I posted earlier, and it's interesting that we're all roughly the same distance, albeit in opposite directions, from the CS epicenter. The sun never sets on the CS Empire!

[myboynoah]

mbn and JL, it's awesome that you, my intended readers, were actually awake and vigilant when I posted earlier, and it's interesting that we're all roughly the same distance, albeit in opposite directions, from the CS epicenter. The sun never sets on the CS Empire!

We're bigger than U.S. Steel!

[Jeff Lebowski]

mbn and JL, it's awesome that you, my intended readers, were actually awake and vigilant when I posted earlier, and it's interesting that we're all roughly the same distance, albeit in opposite directions, from the CS epicenter. The sun never sets on the CS Empire!

Indeed.

Fresh croissants and crepes for breakfast. Baguette sandwich for lunch. So good. I love Paris.

[happyone]

I am nothing if not obedient. We're in Kyoto now and we had our guide take us to his favorite okonomiyaki place (really good, and we have a video of ours being made which I'll watch on Fast Sundays as a kind of self-flagellatory penance), and then last night we joined the locals at the nearby Gyoza no Osho where we put away an embarrassingly large number of those delights. Today for lunch we had a couple of large ramen bowls (Ippudo) so we've done a pretty nice survey of Japanese cuisine in our short time here. The last supper (we're going home tomorrow) will probably be another sushi fest.

I hopy you enjoyed Kyoto - I was missionary there for 3 months in 1977/8 - Just beautiful.

I really, really need to get back to Japan - I need a Osho's goyza fix

When I was there as a missionary, if you ate 10 servings (60 pieces) in 30 minutes you got them free and your name on the wall. I never achieved that ( I also never tried), most of the names on the wall were missionaries

I also want some good Tenshinhan and Katsudonburi

Seeing I'll be retiring soon maybe I can arrange that.

[happyone]

Yes!

second this!!!

[myboynoah]

He was an American child in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb dropped

On that clear, sunny morning, 7-year-old Howard Kakita stood on the roof of his grandparents’ bathhouse excitedly watching the vapor trails of an approaching B-29.

The date was August 6, 1945. The city was Hiroshima.

Howard was not supposed to be on the roof, his grandmother shouting as the air raid siren sounded. Then again, neither he nor his brother were supposed to be in Japan at all. Born in California, they were Americans, like their mother and father before them, like unknown numbers of U.S. citizens who were caught in that city on that day and forever after associated with the atomic bomb and the horrors it unleashed.

. . . . . . . . .

His story, like that of many American A-bomb survivors, is seldom part of the popular literature surrounding Hiroshima. Yet it is distinctly both a Japanese and American tale, one filled with tragedy, betrayal, heroism and eventual forgiveness.

[Commando]

He was an American child in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb dropped

That's amazing. I never considered that there could be any Hiroshima 'survivors.'

[PaloAltoCougar]

That's amazing. I never considered that there could be any Hiroshima 'survivors.'

We met one during our visit to Hiroshima two years ago; very interesting, My favorite survivor story is Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who was visiting Hiroshima on business when the bomb fell there. He survived, amd made it back to Nagasaki where he was treated at the hospital. Then...

Despite being on the verge of collapse, Yamaguchi dragged himself out of bed on the morning of August 9 and reported for work at Mitsubishi’s Nagasaki office. Around 11 a.m., he found himself in a meeting with a company director who demanded a full report on Hiroshima. The engineer recounted the scattered events of August 6—the blinding light, the deafening boom—but his superior accused him of being mad. How could a single bomb destroy an entire city? Yamaguchi was trying to explain himself when the landscape outside suddenly exploded with another iridescent white flash. Yamaguchi dropped to the ground just seconds before the shock wave shattered the office windows and sent broken glass and debris careening through the room. “I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from Hiroshima,” he later told the newspaper The Independent.

[Jeff Lebowski]

That's amazing. I never considered that there could be any Hiroshima 'survivors.'

I met a few on my mission.

[clackamascoug]

The explosion today in Beirut is being reported as a Baby Hiroshima - somehow I doubt that.

[myboynoah]

I met a few on my mission.

I did too. Then I met the children of survivors when I returned for work. Then I met survivors of the fire bombings. Some very sad stories.

[Commando]

We met one during our visit to Hiroshima two years ago; very interesting, My favorite survivor story is Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who was visiting Hiroshima on business when the bomb fell there. He survived, amd made it back to Nagasaki where he was treated at the hospital. Then...

OMG. What a life.