Canteen(food)

Like every major institution, this University too has a canteen that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner at reasonable prices. Mostly deep fried food like pork cutlets and fried fish. They have small salads and very good fruit (melon, pears or ananas).
Special here is the Noodle soup time: from 10.00 till 15.00 hours only...and it pays to go there. Three kinds of noodles..ramen, udon and the dark soba are served here with different kinds of broth, made of dashi (fish stock made of bonito, a dolphin look-a-like but not a mammal) and ofcourse the old mizo, water mixed with a soybean paste and really delicious. With that you get either fried oysters, 賭けうどん kake-udon, or a few green leaves and coloured fish slices or even some meat 肉 cut up in stripes.
The only time not to visit here is at 12.00 noon...the whole university seems to be converging upon this place and it's havoc. The other thing is that the tables are quite low and they also have steel beams under them, normally meant to put you bags and coats but for the foreigners it basically means to bash your knees time and time again...
On the right you see Alexandra, Bart and Colin enjoying this great daily event.

And now to the major event of this week...I finally managed to locate the stores where they sell tonicwater...a small osakeya お酒や, liquorstore, with tiny bottles and a supermarket with more western things but again only in small plastic bottles like the ones they sell coca cola in everywhere.. I bought all four bottles to makes sure I will last a week.
So here it is my first G & T created at home and enjoyed on the balcony in the sun at 5 pm...the perfect time.

Did buy some Vodka, V8 (vegetable juice), tabasco and worcestersauce to make a fab Bloody Mary for next Sunday..... Life is looking good...!!!!