Musings of a Food and Travel Addict
I went to PacBell SBC Park for a Giants game. We won, yay!PacBell SBC Park is known for having expensive food, which it does. It also has expensive beer. All kinds of beer. Bud is US$5.00 and everything else (“premimum”) beer is US$7.50. They even had this:
But check out the price!
Now that’s just plain WRONG! And the US$4.25 is for the bag o’nuts you see there in the pic.
US$7.50 for Pabst Blue Ribbon? Anta BAKA??
Congratulations Rodney, you are…
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You are smart, loyal and sensitive. You are also very caring towards other people and you help them out whenever you can. You are very passionate about your line of work. You fight for your beliefs and if someone doesn’t agree with you, you argue your point of view across in a very convincing yet diplomatic manner. For that, you earn respect.
I’ve heard of multinational companies, but this is absurd! Check out my bag of potstickers.
Pretty straightforward, right? Now check out the name of the company that makes these taste treats…
Yup. A company from Southern California (City of Industry) with an Irish sounding name that makes Chinese food.
The mind wobbles… (Kelly Bundy)
So baseball has spring training, football has pre-season and I’ve got the “it’s not raining anymore so let’s haul out the Weber” season.
Ergo, it’s the first BBQ of the season! We all decided to BBQ some chicken parts (Ivan), angus steak (me) and, erm, a Pork Log (Andy).
As the “master of fire”, I fired up the coals and started up the grill. Dun worry, I was supervised every step of the way.
Continue reading “First BBQ of the Season”Toward the end of my last stay in Tokyo, I wound up helping an American serviceman find his way to Ueno and the Keisei Skyliner while we were on the Yamanote (The Skyliner is a waaay cheaper way to get to Tokyo from Narita, best if u dun have an expense account or a JR Pass).
He was a bit flustered as he ran in the car (getting his arm caught in the door in the process). Seems that he was trying to get to Narita and got the JR (Japan Rail) and the Tokyo Metro mixed up. Here’s some general rules about rail in Tokyo.
JR usually runs above ground. The Yamanote and the Chuo/Chuo Rapid are JR Lines. At JR stations, you go UP to the platforms.
Tokyo Metro generally runs underground. You go DOWN into the Metro station and usually once there, you go DOWN again to get to the platforms. This is the rule in central Tokyo, although as you head further out, some Metro lines become elevated.
To make things even more confusing, Tokyo Metro as it’s known by everyone, is actually run by two operators. The actual “Tokyo Metro” which makes up most of the subway lines on your map is operated by a private company while several lines (Oedo, Asakusa, Mido, Shinjuku) are known as the Toei Subway, which is run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Why this matters is because the fare structure is slightly different between the two systems. However, if you have a Suica or a Pasmo, which are prepaid transit cards, it’s not an issue. You can purchase these at JR or Tokyo Metro stations respectively.
Transferring about can be a challenge if you’re not competely familiar with the city (as I’m not, at least not yet!). I found this page run by Tokyo Metro that helps you transfer between the two subway systems.
Neat, wish I knew about this site while I was there! Live and learn and know for the next visit…
The daily scrum on the MTR. Please mind the gap between the train and the platform!
Here’s a neat page about the Sanja Matsuri I checked out.
Kind of a Lost in Translation moment (or at least the DVD menu).
Writing from the Signet Lounge at Tokyo Narita, after arriving on NH 812 in Y from HKG, connecting to my flight back to SFO (groan)
Possibly one of the brighter (and very simple) ideas for seatback tables. There’s a hole in the table! Whatever for?
Especially useful when the ride gets bumpy. I’ve worn Diet Coke (erm Pepsi) before on SWA and UAL when we hit turbulance. Eeeeee-splash.
The economy meal from HKG. You can guess this because of the brand of water and one of the meal choices on this morning flight was DIM SUM!! This is the first time I’ve ever had dim sum on the plane. Granted, it was just two pieces each of siu mai and har gau and a baby joong along with the ANA standard issue cold soba and salad. Could you imagine a full dim sum service on a plane? Hella cool!!
And oh yah, my flight NRT-SFO is booked solid in steerage. So I reluctantly accepted being bumped…to BUSINESS CLASS AGAIN! Op-ups helped by being 1K.
Writing from 30,000 feet on NH8, NRT-SFO
Here’s the Business Class dinner.
Wah! I love this airline! Ya dun hear ppl saying that about UAL, do ya? =P
The last things you see before you enter the confines of the Airport.
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