My friend had the crab spaghetti. Why are crabs so scarey looking??????? 

This is the tomato and garlic spaghetti - yum yum! 

This is the garlic toast that I ate at Ninnikuya 

I Have Garlic Breath!!!!!

Hello Everybody!

Boy, did I ever have garlic breath on Saturday. I went shopping in Umeda (I bought some crazy plaid shorts), and after I finished shopping I went to a restaurant called Ninnikuya. Everything in this restaurant is made with garlic!! I think there is a Ninnikuya in Hirakata too, but I went to the one in Umeda. It was really good. I started with the garlic toast, and I couldn't believe how much garlic was piled up on top of the toast. It was really amazing. Also, the pieces of bread were really big, and I had to poke down into the pieces of bread with a chop stick so that the garlic butter could soak all the way down through the bread. Along with the garlic bread, I ordered the tomato and garlic spaghetti. It was really good too. My friend had Crab spaghetti, so naturally I had to steal some of that and eat it too. It was a pretty good restaurant, so I think I might go there again sometime. It also looks like it might be a good place to have a party.

Anyway, I'll see all my students in class, and for anyone else reading this blog, don't forget to bring mints if you go to Ninnikuya because you will need one after all the garlic.

Peace and Love!

Scott

I can't believe that this semester is almost over!! Wow, time flies when you are having fun, as we say in English. It's also getting to be really hot outside now too. I can't believe how hot it is already. I am from Canada, so I don't think I will ever get used to the heat. However, to battle the heat I have bought the most amazing thing, and it was only 660 yen! It is a shaved ice maker!! It is so wonderful. It is made of blue plastic, and I can put a piece of ice inside of it, and then turn the handle to make shaved ice. It is so great. I bought green tea syrup to put on the shaved ice, but it is also delicious with maple syrup. Sometimes I eat it Japanese style with the green tea syrup, and sometimes I eat it Canadian style with the maple syrup. If you try shaved ice with Maple syrup I am sure that you will like it.

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Hello Bloggers!

I hope everyone is enjoying all the pictures I have been putting up on my blog lately. It is a lot of fun. The latest picture is a picture of my sister's dog. Isn't she cute? I was in Umeda last month, and I found a pet shop that sold Japanese clothes for dogs. Naturally, I just had to buy some Japanese clothes for my sister's dog. My sister lives in Vancouver, so I think that my sister's dog is the only dog in Vancouver with a Happi Coat. Cool eh?

We have been having such beautiful weather lately. I thought this was the rainy season, but it is more like summer! On Sunday I went to Arashiyama because it was so beautiful outside. I was going to go and visit the monkeys (again!). However, when I got to Arashiyama I saw that people were renting row boats and rowing on the river. It looked like so much fun that my friend and I rented a boat and we went rowing on the river. It was great. I took millions of pictures. I used to love canoeing in Canada, so I was really happy to get a chance to go rowing on the water. Unfortunately, after rowing, I didn't have enough time to go and visit the monkeys. I guess I will have to go back to Arashiyama again to see all of my monkey friends.

Have a great week!

Look! Isn't my sister's dog so cute? I bought her pug a "Happi Coat" :-) 

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This is my favourite monkey in Arashiyama. He is so cute. However, after taking these pictures, this monkey's mother tried to attack me! Some of the monkey's in Arashiyama are naughty! 

I think monkeys are cool! 

This is the restaurant I was talking about in my last blog . . . I'm hungry just thinking about it. Good luck finding it! 

Hello Bloggers!

I have to tell you about the most amazing restaurant that I found in Kyoto the other day. Maybe it’s already famous, but I still have to write about it. It was so good, and very different from any restaurant I have ever been to in Canada. It is a katsu restaurant. I can’t remember the name of this restaurant, but it think it could be “Katsu Kura”. Anyway, it has a really cool atmosphere, and the food is just delicious. As soon as the waiter took my order, he brought me a bowl of sesame seeds. I ground up the seeds and mixed them with some sauce. Yum! I had the pork sirloin katsu with a special Kyoto vegetable katsu. They were so good, especially with the special sesame sauce! The pork almost melted in my mouth, and the vegetable katsu was really unique. Along with the katsu, I had a huge pile of shredded cabbage, some miso soup and a mixture of rice and barley. One of the best things about this restaurant is that you can eat as much soup, cabbage and rice and barley mixture as you want. My meal cost about 1300 yen, so I think it was a pretty good deal for all the food I got to eat. If you are looking for this restaurant, it is on sanjo in Kyoto, down the street from the big Kappasushi.

Enjoy!

Look at this cute picture of my sister's dog :-)