bathroom mistake

So Jon and I ate a KuruKuma, a thai food restaurant with a beautiful view, last night. We had a very spicy beef curry dish with nan bread, and a papaya salad. The salad was so spicy we went though two pitchers of water trying to eat it! Because of all the liquid I drank, I had to use the restroom pretty bad on our way out. Unfortunately, there was a lady in the women's one stall. I waited while brushing my hair and doing my makeup at the sink, but she still wasn't done yet, and was making some throat clearing noises. So I went out of the small restroom, figuring she needed some privacy to do her thing. Finally, I heard the sink and was filled with the joy of knowing I could soon empty my bladder. You can just imagine the look on both of our faces when a man came out of the women's restroom. He just looked at me wide eyed, then looked at the sign on the wall. I was laughing hysterically at his aloofness. He quickly realized what had happened, said a shameful "so-ri", and bowed before quickly walking back to his table. As I ran in to relieve myself, I thought to myself how lucky he was he only had me to face in his major faux pas.

Peanus Butter?

Yesterday I tried pig ear in… peanut butter! But when Japanese people say peanut butter, they say peanuts butter, and well, it doesn’t sound so innocent. Anyhow, it wasn’t like, a whole ear. More like stringy bits of cartilage-y looking stuff (picture really thin, long slices of bacon) with a small amount of creamy peanut butter mixed in. It came with a bento lunch everyone from Hyakuna was eating yesterday for their welcome party. Apparently it’s an traditional Okinawan food. Personally, I’d skip chewing, and chewing, and chewing on ear again. You can’t really break it down so you just get to the point where you have to swallow it. Yuck!