Posted in Food, Restaurants, Travel on Monday, August 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Most of the time, when I tell Japanese people what state I’m from, they look at me with a cocked head or a confused squint. To explain, I usually say that Wisconsin is like the Hokkaido of America: just about as north as the country gets, aggressively cold in the winter, full of relatively unspoiled [...]
Posted in Drink, Restaurants, Travel on Monday, August 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
But it isn’t just Sapporo Beer.
I am a beer geek. I’ve discussed this is previous posts, occasionally at length. When I travel, I tend to plan my itineraries around trips to breweries and bottle shops, meticulously plotting out marathon bar crawls just to find that Rodenbach on tap, that Yona Yona on cask, or any [...]
Posted in Drink, Food, Restaurants, Society and Culture, Travel on Sunday, June 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I think the translation of kuidaore on Jim Breen’s online Japanese dictionary is pretty funny:
食い倒れ 【くいだおれ】 (n) bringing ruin upon oneself by extravagance in food
But really, this is exactly what it means. The verb kuu 食う is a sort of informal way of saying “eat,” while the daore 倒れ part can mean either [...]
