Ice Cream and Tea

Tea is a popular drink in Japan of that there can be no doubt, you can have tea on your rice, tea in your ceremony, tea in crisps and my most favorite tea flavoured ice cream. Before you retch remember this is uber sophisticated green tea none of your PG Tips out here. Whilst on strange foods its also possible to get Wasabi flavoured snacks and deep fried sweet potato with sugar. Restaurants will sell anything you will eat so its not unusual to see chicken cartalidge kebabs for sale. The culinary magic of this place will never fade. And the Sushi isn't bad either.

I think Kyoto is a slightly less sleazy place than the bigger cities so I was a bit shocked when I went to get a can of coffee from the vending machine only to discover that this was not a coffee vendor, no indeed, it was 24 hour on demand porn from a machine. Classy. Porn is everywhere all the convenience shops stock a wide range and we were shown what looked like a very nice fan in the local pub but turned out to be a graphic depiction of a Samurai and his Lady friend making the beast with two backs.

I am engaging in some cultural activities and have visited something interesting most weekends. There are markets several times a month in various places. I went to the one at Toji temple said to be one of the biggest, it was indeed very big and offered countless opportunities for pictures contrasting the temple faithful lighting incense and the capitalists hordes in the garden.

More soon,
Roger