Dougy Mak's Blog

My first day in the rain in Japan. Today, I made use of my NorthFace jacket and it was actually a little cold outside. We were originally going to Harajuku today, but postponed it until tomorrow since it was raining. Instead, we went to the next train stop (Tokorozawa) and looked at some stationary supplies. They have a Daiso here! Passed by a lot of taito arcades again, and we even tried one today. The rule was only $10, but we ended up spending $11. These machines are really addicting and money intensive. Before playing, you can always ask the employees to reset the toys, so it could be more fair. I went ahead and asked the person working there if she could reset the prizes for me in English while pointing to the machine and gave my thanks. She said something to me in Japanese and did a little bow with her head and walked back over to her co-worker which is when I caught them both looking back over at us. Probably because I spoke English to her.

For lunch, we had McDonalds. They had a slightly different menu here and the price is very much the same. We ordered two burgers to share: one ebi burger, and one teriyaki burger meal. The teriyaki burger was different and tasted okay, nothing too special. The ebi burger was pretty good though. Its patty is similar to the filet-o-fish patty, they deepdeep fry the shrimp patty. I liked how it was crispy on the outside and the shrimp was soft on the inside. I also liked my medium size grape Fanta. The size was pretty nice. It was really big! It was a little bigger than an American small drink at McDonalds. The McDonalds here also had a play ground, except it was indoors. It was SO small though, but I guess small people do not need big places like my obese country. Recall from yesterday, I mentioned that there were many categories for trash here in Japan and you have to separate all your trash. Well here at McDonalds, they granted us the luxury to practice that. We got to separate our trash into their rightful bins! It  was not hard since there were only 2 categories (thank goodness), but I asked my girl friend to do it anyways. Different people, different tastes, different size, and different practices.