japanese quotient

While I was sipping on my Frappucino and checking my emails in Starbucks a while ago, I decided that I should try to do at least one thing everyday that's Japanese that isn't usually found in Australia – my Japan quotient. It started off really well, with bubblooning, and going to a Japanese festival, and eating tofu and stuff, but kinda deteriorated to just ordering a lemon green tea or green tea frappucino in Starbucks. I think one day I found myself just eating Pizza Pringles, which techinically, filled my Japanese quotient since I don't think you can find them in Australia, so to me they were something I associated with Japan and thus adequately Japanese.

 

Anyway, with my Japan quotient in mind, I decided to see Noh performance in the city – which, after watching it, should be my share of Japanese culture for at least the next week – It's this ye-olde Japanese theatre that's performed outdoors, and with the words sung in a really slow way. It's supposed to be one of the official, national forms of drama in Japan, so decided to check it out.

 

It was pretty cool… for the first 15 minutes. That's pretty much all the time you need to see what's going on, appreciate it, and then want to move on. Fortunately I showed up late so I apparently missed all the boring bits. Well, "boring" is all relative I guess, but apparently the bit I saw was the better part.

 

After being culturally enriched the adequate amount that day, we headed off to soak in Japanese culture at this place called Sekky's – it was the traditional Japanese place that took the shape of a retro 50's diner, so I ordered a chilli cheeseburger with fries. That also counts as Japanese right? I mean, how many other retro 50's American diners run by Japanese people are there in Australia? Plus I've never seen a chilli cheeseburger in Australia, so come on, that must be Japanese…