{"id":20843,"date":"2012-07-28T06:35:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T21:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=20843"},"modified":"2012-07-28T06:35:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T21:35:47","slug":"lost-in-translationtempurageisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=20843","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Translation\/Tempura\/Geisha"},"content":{"rendered":"

good morning. 6am here in steaming hot tokyo. time to get up, pack, and head toward the next low pressure and the beach. going to be a 11 hour drive but i’m looking forward to it because long drives is japanese surfing culture and i’ve been doing it for over 20 years. i only have a few days left here so better get moving. oh, i went to shonan to pick up my surfboards and it was good seeing matsuo. he’s always like a brother to me.
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\ndriving in tokyo yesterday was frustrating. there was so much traffic and it was so hot. i was getting sunburned through the windows and getting all heated up while the cold a\/c was blowing on my body. felt kind of weird. 4 hours of that and i had enough. i got a little lost. why?
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\nbecause these navigations aren’t always accurate. and when you can’t read japanese, it doesn’t help at all. but i guess the more i drive around tokyo by myself, the more i will learn. ganbaru!
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\ni came back to my dream hotel, Okura. then sat in the bathtub for 10 minutes, then walked downstairs to meet Inaida-san and Yuki-san. look what i was seated into. OMG! TEMPURA!!!! that’s exactly what i want to eat.
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\nand this is exactly what i wanted to drink. can you believe i ate a sukiya 380 yen or $4 cheap breakfast down the street, then eating this the same night? i feel like i’m living in a fantasy world. and i’m starting to love it. haha.
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\nyou sit down on the counter, you order what you want, and they master chef cooks it to perfection. i wish we had these in hawaii. wait, i’ll take that back. even if we had these in hawaii, it would be too expensive for me to go anyway. i bet one piece costs like $10. ouch.
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\nhello shrimp tempura!
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\nhello little ayu!
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\nand this was last. there was shrimp and scallop in here. sip this down with some hot tea and i was ready for bed.
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\ngetting served like a king by these 2 lovely geisha girls. haha.
\nwant to thank Inaida-san for another wonderful tokyo experience. surf hawaii for 2 weeks\/month, then eat good food in japan for 2 weeks\/month. can i join your club? haha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

good morning. 6am here in steaming hot tokyo. time to get up, pack, and head toward the next low pressure and the beach. going to be a 11 hour drive but i’m looking forward to it because long drives is japanese surfing culture and i’ve been doing it for over 20 years. i only have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}