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wintersweet · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:57 am Post subject:

Abufletcher is roaming the fora at the Chronicle of Higher Education, actually, where I sometimes lurk. Surprised

Quibby, what kinds of sweets are you missing? I found my sweet tooth pretty well satisfied in Japan (but when I was in Taiwan, for a longer period of time, I did discover that I like American food far more than I thought I did! and boy did I miss having easy access to a good range of cheeses...).

Quibby84 · Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 643 Location: Japan

like the kind that you can feel stick to your inards as you eat it....lol.
When I was in the US I was SOO healthy now we go out for ice cream as much as we can. We tried to eat chocolate donuts but they were hardly sweet and usely cookies have salty center. I bought some cho cho sticks and they were these saltyish things dipped in fake chocolate. It is not good for us to eat more sweets, we just feel bad cravings. But this morning I actually got sugar (instead of the salt I bought thinkin it was sugar) for my coffee and that made me feel happy....
what sweets did you eat..and where were you from?

Apsara · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 2142 Location: Tokyo, Japan

Hmm, I haven't noticed cookies here having a salty centre in general. There are hundreds of different ones, try something else- you can get Oreos in a lot of places. You'll get used to things being less sweet here than in the US, although some things are sickly sweet- have you tried the sweet beans, anko, yet?

What about Mister Donut, not sure if you have a shop in Ashikaga but they have them in most places, surely they will be sweet enough.

I'm not from the US so don't know cho cho sticks but maybe you mean you tried Pocky? Try a similar product called Fran, it has the thickest chocolate. Or Mousse Pocky. It may not taste like Hershey's but it's still chocolate!

The most important thing is not to compare too much to things back home, try to approach everything with an open mind. Be brave and eat Japanese food as much as you can.

I buy some NZ comfort foods that I won't accept substitutes for- NZ cheese, honey and Vegemite for example, but otherwise I have got used to Japanese food and like a lot of it.

Venti · Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Posts: 171 Location: Kanto, Japan

Welcome to Japan, Quibby. Hope you're settling in nicely.

wintersweet · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:23 am Post subject:

osakajojo · Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 229

I stored most of my c.d. collection in my parents' attic and took my essential collection.
Porn- I personally have never collected, but if you have it burned to a blank disk, the customs won't know what is on it.
As far as regions, you can get a Div-X player to play any region-they sell them in Nipponbashi in Osaka.

jerjer · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject: