California or Bust

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In lieu of my newly developed tendency to travel on/near the fourth of July (gotta celebrate our country’s independence, right? Last year, MEXICO, this year, CALIFORNIA), I visited my friend/ old neighbor, Tileli, in San Francisco. She happened to have her internship there this summer so luckily, I was able to take advantage of it. I flew in around 5pm on Thursday, and as soon as I got outside of the airport I decided I could live in California. The weather was beautiful: sunshiny and cool. The scenery from the taxi window was equally beautiful: all the mountains were a site to see). After getting there, we decided to go to Japantown for dinner. Since she lived rather close to that neighborhood, it was just a short walk. At the place that we went to, everyone sits around this huge oval-shaped table. In the middle of the table was the sushi chef, and around him he would place the prepared sushi on this boats that floated around a river (similar to splashtown’s lazy river) and the boat-train would circle around the table. Once a plate of sushi caught your fancy, you could just pick it up off the boat. The different plates were color-coded according to price, and once you were done eating, they calculate up all of your empty plates to figure out the bill. It was quite the experience. We had a spider roll, some type of crab roll, and fried soft-shell crab claws. They were good - but we may have grabbed too many. We also tried what was probably the smallest piece of cheesecake the two of us had ever seen, which was green tea flavored. However, other than its wasabi-like color and texture, it tasted like normal cheesecake with maybe a slight hint of green tea. Since that was a rather unsatisfying dessert, we then went to the Belly Good Café to get a crepe which was filled with bananas, pecans and nutella. The guy at the store then proceeded to roll this thing up in pink construction paper. I can honestly say it was the first time I ate anything out of construction paper. After that, we walked back home and had a good night watching the most random tv ever, while eating sickening amounts of nutella and wasabi peas (not together, one after the other may be just as bad), and relaxing before our next few days of chaos.

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Photos

Japantown
This is me looking stupid in Japantown

For Til and Me
Yes, we do love sushi boats

Construction Paper -- the new finest china
This even beats Chinet! In this picture, I am wondering why I am eating a crepe out of a piece of construction paper.

Japantown Signs
I guess this was my first chance to learn some Japanese.