What a weekend! Saturday, February 1st, was the Korean New Year. (In case you were wondering, in Korea they go by a lunar calender.) So I went over to Jin's house after work where a few of us celebrated with some delicious kimchi and tuna soup. Of course, in the celebration, there was beer and whiskey a-flowin' and we soon found ourselves at the nearest karaoke bar. (For those of you who have heard me sing, I am sorry if I have rehashed any bad memories) I rarely go to karaoke these days so it was a special treat and I sang myself hoarse. I always WANT to go but Jin claims to hate it...although I notice that anytime we go, I never have to force him to sing but rather, he is usually the first to grab the microphone.
In any case, it was a wild night, or about as wild as they get these days. That made it all the more difficult to wake up early on Sunday morning. Jin and I had to meet one of his friends at the train station before 11am in order to go to Shimonoseki--about 1 1/2 hours north of Fukuoka by train. Normally, it would not be worth taking a special trip to the town but Jin's University has a deal where foreign students can get money for traveling...as long as it is with a Japanese person. It was as good of a place as any for a day trip. Our mission was to eat some good fugu, or blowfish. Shimonoseki supposedly has some of the tastiest blowfish in Japan and Jin had heard about an old-fashioned seaside market where blowfish soup is famous so off we went in search of the deadly delicacy.
To be honest, aside from the thrill of playing 'Russian fish roulette', I didn't find blowfish to be anything special at all. I enjoyed the sushi I ate much more than the blowfish. After we had arrived home, however, Jin decided to tell me that while cooked blowfish is just so-so, raw blowfish is amazing. Why we didn't eat the raw blowfish, I don't know. I guess that will have to wait for the next trip.
Posted by keldog at February 03, 2003 03:20 PMit seemed to me that the fugu didn't have any taste... thanks for testing!
Posted by: vince on February 5, 2003 02:38 AMyeah, not much taste. although, i had some fried fugu and it tasted really buttery...i suppose that could have been the batter though.
Posted by: kelly on February 5, 2003 11:06 AMAre you kidding!?!! Fugu is great. Sometimes it tatstes exactly like soy-sauce, sometimes it tastes like a mixture of soy-sauce and wasabi... sometimes it tastes like that with a shiso leaf...its amazing all teh variety there is in fugu-flavor
Posted by: kevin on February 5, 2003 08:07 PMI guess that's why they call it "The other white meat."
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spent the night partying at the house of blues with hootie and the blowfish. great, great night. meet and greet actually turned into to a meet and hang out. they played for about 3 hours and didnt stop til 2 in the morning, they were running out of stuff to play, they were jokingly taking requests. oh at the time the tickets were an "outrageous" $75 a piece. well worth after the fact, but at the time ludicris. My wife and I have an annual New Year's tradition. We tell each other we would rather stay home than pay huge bucks to go out with a few friends to a party where we know next to no-one. Then on New Year's eve itself we order Chinese food around 3:00 in the afternoon in order to beat the New Year's Chinese Food rush which results in a 3 hour wait for your food if you order at 5pm. Then when 7:00pm hits we both get depressed because we should have made plans to go out. I have a few drinks and usually fall asleep on the couch around 11pm.
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