My holidays started with a nice dinner among friends at No No Budo, a local favourite offering an all-you-can-eat buffet of organically produced Japanese foods. After completely stuffing ourselves to the point of bursting if we were to eat a wafer thin, I came to the conclusion that the term “all-you-can-eat” is a little misleading. No one eats all they can eat at an all-you-can-eat buffet. More accurately, they eat all they can, plus a little more. Thus the term should be recoined to be "a-little-more-than-you-should-eat" buffet. Having done exactly that, I was feeling rather ill and was faced with the choice of pulling my customary all-nighter prior to holiday departure or the highly desired option of going to bed. I opted for the latter, a very wise decision in retrospect. Fortunately, (or unfortunately, depending on
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