I will give up my seat if you promise not to visit me in my dreams.
I remember seeing etiquette or manner posters throughout the subway stations in Tokyo and particularly recall a poster advising women not to do their makeup on the train. However, none were quite as interesting (or incredibly frightening and nightmare inspiring) as the one (above) from 1978 wherein “Marcel Marceau gestures toward a priority seat reserved for elderly and handicapped passengers, expecting mothers, and passengers accompanying small children.” More vintage poster goodness here.
Evidently juvenile disobedience in the classroom can be hilarious…especially when it’s synchronized. These daring Japanese school girls take this classroom prank to the next level and what’s almost as funny as their synchronized moves are the punishments the teacher assigns to the students (e.g., standing to the side of the classroom on one leg with hands in the air, doing a weird dance, etc.).
Kirala, is a Japanese Restaurant in Berkeley, CA where I learned to appreciate seafood. Prior to my first bite of Sushi there, I had never been fond of Seafood and barely ate any at all except for the occasional Fillet-o-Fish (does that even count as seafood?). Nearly 11 years later, seafood (particularly fish) makes up a large portion of my diet.
It didn’t take long before I became a regular at Kirala and the one dish I almost always ordered was the “Butterfish” or Miso Marinated Gindara (a.k.a, Black Cod or Butterfish), a dish Kirala and their robata masters had perfected. Since moving out of the Bay Area, I’ve been searching for a worthy equivalent to Kirala’s Butterfish and I was starting to lose hope until I decided to attempt to create my own using some extra Gindara we had from nabemono the night before. » Read the rest of this entry «
