looking for inspiration?
i went recently to asia (seoul and tokyo, specifically) to find inspiration. well, the trip was too short for that, but i did find these:
got lucky and got upgraded to first class. apparently, first class riders get finer toilet seat covers. hmm, what's up with that? finer tooshies?
Classic example of Asians not quite grasping English. Go check out Engrish.com for better examples.
we bought these knives at the fish market in tokyo. we couldn't really communicate or bargain with the man who sold us these knives (you know, my college japanese sux), but we were sold when he cut slivers of newspaper right in front of our eyes.
if you ever hit up tokyo, make sure to go to the fish market - it's the freshest sushi you'll ever have. no joke. but it's best to go when they open at like 5 am. does the sound of sushi and sake in the morning turn your stomach? how about if you've been out drinking all night? then it's not really morning, is it?
oh, but you may not be into this guy:
we had this at dinner the night before. one of one restaurant we went to that didn't have an english menu (dumb tourists)...all i kept telling them was "no meat" cuz my friend's a vegetarian. they made us a soup with that thing that looks like brain. we couldn't figure out what it was and when we went for sushi (again) the next morning, there it was right before us. when i asked the sushi chef what it was, he kept saying "s-p-a-m" "s-p-a-m?" SPAM? what? and then i reluctantly realized that he meant "sperm". or perhaps fish balls of some sort. hey, until i knew what it was, i thought it was pretty good.
you can't do asia without boozing. we did it up right - one night was filled with sake, soju, beer (as seen above), then champagne and finished off with whiskey. and you wondered why we call this panties + vodka.