Dr. Anna LatourIn a rather extreme edition of #LatourDetour, we have now visited Rinku, Izumisano, and Iharanosato, Japan.
German Vidal@anna Enjoy Kansai! I used to go there once or twice a year (to work with people at Nagoya University), but I haven't been in a couple of years now... I really miss it! (the food, especially 😅)
@the_heruman lol the only vegetarian thing I could find was an egg sandwich 🫠
Thankfully I had scored some vegetarian braised noodles at Hong Kong airport 10 or so hours earlier so I wasn’t suuuuper hungry.
Anyway only had 2.5 hours to play outside then had to go back to airport to catch my flight home
@anna Ouch, that was a really short stay... You need to go back with more time!
As for the food, yeah, being vegetarian in Japan isn't easy. Even the most basic noodle soup usually has a broth made with pork or fish. There are versions made only with kombu seaweed, but without speaking the language (and especially in a small city) it must be nearly impossible to find.The only "easy" thing that comes to mind is rice and tempura of vegetables...
Have a nice flight back home!
tempura 🤢
No.
And thanks! I was lucky that my replacement flight from Osaka to Amsterdam was with KLM and they seem to offer vegetarian food by default, so it didn’t matter that I hadn’t had a chance to book a special meal.
Anyway. Typing this while walking to my office in Delft 😭
Steven Rieder 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇺🇦@anna @the_heruman if you’d have had more time I would have had more tips for veggie food in the region. Next time!
@rieder I checked but the convenience stores you recommended weren’t even open at the train station. After that, I abandoned any plans of finding food and focused on finding geocaches 🤷♀️ @the_heruman
@anna @the_heruman not open? 😮
Laurens
It's Only A Paper Moon (Album Version)
@anna Ah, Ol' Blue Eyes 🙂
edit: It worked, I now have a jazzy swing orchestra in my head 😆
@ElBeeToots hahaha you're welcome
I've had that song (and other versions of it) on repeat since Saturday.
The band played it during the banquet social of the VLX. It was only then that I realised that it was like a proper song. For some reason, I always imagined that It's Only A Paper Moon had been composed especially for the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode with the same name.
I got so emotional lol
Thankfully, someone asked me to dance and it was a really good dance, also! Have been humming it ever since
