The original plan was to head to a Shabu Shabu restaurant, but some amazing street performers caught our eyes and we took some time to watch their acts- one group played peruvian music, while the performer after that performed all sorts of interesting acts... as much as I felt a bit apathetic at first, his enthusiasm and extremely wide range of acts drew me in as he continued entertaining the crowd.
A great street performance. His "Robot Story" was amazing. Catch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXLcTOZKP1o
The Shabu-Shabu was excellent, and worth every yen of the hefty 3000 price. Raw pork and meat is thinly sliced and placed in dishes for customers, where they can dip them into hot water to essentially cook them on the spot and combine them with the rice and vegetables. Furthermore, it was an all-you-can-eat sort of deal as well, making it in my mind one of the best possible deals for meat-lovers.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXLcTOZKP1o
Some of the best food I've had... but I say that every time I try something new here.
Wow, Stefan.--------------------- 09/17/09, Thursday ---------------------
Today was interesting; after visiting the P.E. class registration early in the morning, I slept until around 2:00 PM. The day before completely drained the amount of money in my wallet, so I decided to go to the bank to exchange some U.S. bills... unfortunately, I didn't realize they closed at around 3:00 PM.
Lack of yen aside, I visited a hair salon that one of the Japanese volunteers (Yuko) recommended to me. Somehow, I had managed to get around alright despite being fairly weak in Japanese, and luckily met a stylist who could understand English. Considering the price came out to around 1900 yen for the works, I would say it isn't bad at all compared to some places in the U.S.!
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