First, a brief re-cap of the weekend: Thursday was my roommate Jeanette's birthday (yay! I think it's possible I was more excited about it than she was) and it ended up being a great day all around. For dinner we went to an "authentic" japanese restaurant - it was the kind of place where you have to take your shoes off and sit on the mats, and I came to one conclusion about myself eating sushi while in China, and that is, I probably won't be doing it again. My choices at any sushi restaurant are pretty limited anyway, but they don't seem to have avocado here, so I'm basically limited to cucumber rolls. That and not being able to read either the Chinese or the Japanese on the menu is just not a good situation.
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