yamagata food

good part of taking business trip is that you'll have a chance to enjoy the local food there. this time was good choice: yamagata. I often consider that we can find all kinds of food in Tokyo but I found it wrong. Still so much food I'm not much familiar with everywhere!

The local foods I could taste in this short stay were things like Natto jiru(Miso soup a lot of vegetables and crushed fermented soybeans in it), Imoni(cooked various potatoes), Bukkake soba( buckwheat noodles in cold soup. shocked a little cause I thought soba noodles should be always served only in a hot soup. it was icy cold soup!), Tsukemono sushi(literally sushi with pickles on it. good presentation and yummy! maybe can't become a main dish like a normal sushi but i liked it a lot). Furthermore there are Dongara jiru(it is a miso soup you tossed all the body part of fish in it. I even found fish testicles but good for snowing cold night) and mountaineous plants cooked with miso and vinegar(nuta) . They are so good! My most favorite thing from Yamagata is Fuukimame (greenpeas cooked with sugar) though I still can't find any tastier than those of from Hamaya in Tokyo.

golden st

first time stepping in Golden Street in Shinjuku. so peculiar atmosphere but so understandable that many people get hooked on the area.
常連でないと入りにくい雰囲気の所がかなり多いし、もし入っても一期一会的な出会いが求められるような。
but quite sure many people especially people like typical japanese business men need that kind of place. People may not feel comfortable at their work places but will find the bars as their second home with others who can share the interst or something together.

普段知り合えないような強烈な人も多そうだけど、なんにせよentertainerは凄いです。