and tonight we're having chinese

i forgot to photograph our meals for most of the trip, as per inga's request, but here's what we've got.

The first photo I remembered to take: Curry and rice on my plate (okay, so the curry's in the gravy boat), and squid and roe spaghetti on dev's.

I've got yakisoba with pork and vegetables (and shrimp and squid, which really do count as non-meats in Japan); dev's got a sampling of gyoza, meaty-filled steamed buns, and egg rolls. super-duper, this one.

This is the hotpot we had for dev's birthday dinner on Monday. There was sushi and sashimi as well, though stella was sad that the salmon sushi was smoked salmon. Hotpot and sake? Rock.

Four-cheese/Margherita pizza and house wine at the Italian restaurant we ate at for a break from the fish and noodles and rice and broiled meats. Those Japanese know their pizza, oddly enough. There was calamari too, and holy, holy jeezus. Never visit Japan and forget to eat squid. You've never had it better.

a tiny, tiny portion of the last night's meal with the gang. the rest included bonkatsu (maybe dev can tell me what that word should really be? hint, dev!); soba topped with tea, a quail egg, and green onions; tempura; and too much hot sake and draft beer.

That's what you get for now, amigos!