This is a teriyaki chicken pizza. It has some sort of salad dressing, teriyaki sauce, chicken, seaweed shavings, and cabbage. I ordered it without mayonnaise like it usually comes.
This is the Pizza RoyalHat's special pizza. It comes with tuna, ham, tomato, corn, cheese, and sauce.
On Saturday I traveled to Nishi-iya to enjoy some Bolivian food with Justin and a couple other Jets. Justin has some Japanese/Bolivian friends who invited us over for dinner. It was my first time in an actual Japanese house. The house was really cute with three really big tatami rooms, kitchen, entranceway, playroom, and bathroom. We sat on the floor with our legs under the blanket that lays between the tabletop and small table heater. We had all kinds of sushi, a Bolivian appetizer, and chicken/potato dish that tasted just like my favorite meal in Honduras. I always crave that dish, so it was a satisfying surprise to eat it out in the middle of Japan's hidden valley.
On Sunday I met up with two Jets from Michigan in Takamatsu, part of Kagawa Prefecture just north of Tokushima Prefecture. We explored Takamatsu's Ritsuren Park, the largest garden in Japan (750,000sq m).
The kikugetsutei teahouse inside the garden was serving tea properly by the Japanese tea ceremony.
We sat (on the floor) in a waiting room for a while and then shuffled (in our socks) into the tea room. We sat on the ground while some guy in a kimono asked a few people from the group to participate in the running of the tea ceremony. Then they made the three of us move to the front because it was apparently obvious that it was our first time. We got a great view and were served just after the women in kimonos. Some of the other women there were in kimonos, and all of the men and women conducting the ceremony were in traditional kimonos. First we ate a tea ceremony sweet, and then drank some tea from some expensive cups. There was a proper way to hold your cup and rotate your cup and bow to the person serving you. We just followed everyone else and hoped we weren't insulting anyone. The woman in charge of making conversation during the ceremony asked us where we were from and a couple other things I couldn't understand. Overall, it was pretty exciting!
Then we headed over to Yashima, just east of Takamatsu, where there is a neighborhood (called Shikokumura) of historical houses/structures from all over Shikoku. First we ate an entire vat of Takamatsu's famous sanuki udon at a locate restaurant.
This is an old soy sauce warehouse.
This is a lighthouse and house of the lighthouse's keeper was nearby, but difficult to capture in a photo.
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