For body and mind

Japanese food and eating in Japan. As you might know/guess, they eat quite a lot of fish, rice and noodles here. But I won't talk about that kind of Japanese food now, instead I stuff I have encountered. In both good and bad.

1.) School food

Japanese school cafeterias are really, really good. The one in medical campus has three separate kitchens, one for noodles, one for curry and one for various other foods. The ‘various’ kitchen is the most interesting one. You can freely pick your meal among the dozens of small plates. One plate might have fish fillet, second might be a cup of rise, third might be salad, etc.

In the image you can see lunch I ate while ago. The larger battered thing is chicken fillet, while the smaller one is fish. Other stuff you can probably recognize. You can also see the receipt. If you look closely to the receipt, you can see that it tells you more then just the price of the products. Indeed, the said paper slip tells me how many units of proteins (2.0), how many units of salad-stuff (1.2) and how many units of glutamates (6.7) I got. The larger number is the amount of energy I got got from this meal (793 kJ).

While this is bit odd, it helps you eat in a healthy way.

2.) Nattou

See the link for the description. The image probably tells how it tastes... (forced smile much)


3.) Sometimes you just want honest normal Finnish food. I felt like that while ago, and spent good 2 hours making meat soup. The end result can be seen below.

Some bonus images near my living place.
The road leading down from the dorm to the heart of the city (and medical campus)

Temple that I pass every morning. I can't remember what this temple was called, but it probably explains why there are 3-4 graveyards around our dorm.