One of my favourites is the last episode (so, spoilers)

But in the end, when Sokka and Toph are hanging onto the blimp, hopeless, and finally something good happens (I think suki shows up)

And her reaction of "Did boomerang come back?!"

I miss that boomerang.

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Kawaii! Suki! Sekkusu kudasai!

>> ^RedSky:
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Darn got me by 3 minutes LOL.

*drool*

Oishi desu-ka? Sekkusu kudasai!! Suki! Suki!

Glad to see you have an adventurous spirit, MG. Do you remember what was in the bento that you found so offensive? Was it animal, mineral or vegetable?

Japanese food falls into several categories. I'll list them starting with the most common/popular, to the highest cuisine styles.

1. Street food, including yakisoba, tako yaki (octopus in batter balls) and okonomi yaki (Cabbage pancakes), modan yaki, tai yaki (fish-shaped cakes filled with red beans) etc

2. Street-style bento/bowl food, including rice with seaweed and grilled salmon, chicken kara-age, gyudon (beef bowls) etc

3. Izakaya food (pub food), which is a bit like tapas, in that it's small plates of all kinds of interesting yummies, fried and otherwise. My favourite is grilled eggplant in soy sauce

4. Ramen noodle shops can range from the hole-in-the wall to more expensive restaurants, but are usually the kind of food you grab on-the-run, which is why Japanese love to slurp their ramen as fast as they can.

5. Chinese food, which is appropriated to the Japanese palate, like gyoza (fried dumplings), haru maki (spring rolls), cha han, mabo dofu (chili with tofu) etc

6. Pizza restaurants are very popular. You can sample very Japanese style pizzas, that have kim-chi (pickled cabbage) or kamaboko (fish cakes) on them. Some pasta restaurants can be quite classy, usually because they have a European trained chef.

7. Kateika which is home-cooked food, including grilled fish, like salmon and mackeral, rice, miso soup, nabe yaki (hot pots) vegie and rice dishes like gomoku gohan, curry rice, omu rice (a kind of omelette) etc


8. All-you-can-eat restaurants sell food like shabu shabu and suki yaki and are very popular, usually offer all-you-can drink as well.

9. Sushi, including sashimi and all the varieties of sushi. Some sushi places are VERY expensive.

10. Soba restaurants specialise in all kinds of traditional noodle dishes and can be quite revered for their particular style.

11. Kaiseki Ryori is high cuisine, serving some of the foods you would find in osechi ryori and include the food served at a ryokan (Inn), like clear soups with rare mountain vegies, sashimi and delicacies in seafood. We were teated to some kaiseki ryori last time we visited friends in Japan and my favourite was tiny slices of hard butter in between slivers of dried persimmon. It was delicious!

I've probably left some out, but there you have it. Even after you've lived in Japan for some time, it can be quite difficult to become comfortable with some of the high-end stuff, unless you have an absolute love of seafood in its simplest form, because the flavour is usually very subtle.

Kono uta ga suki!! Kago-chan and Tsuji-chan are cute! I love W

Viva la Révolution Farhad! If only our alternative online MTV was hosted by Harfynn Teuport & Sukie Babswenk of Rok TV (sorry for shameless Sift ad!)

A clip from the original Chris Morris series: The Day Today (on BBC Two back in 1994). A hilarious parody of MTV called Rok TV, with Harfynn Teuport & Sukie Babswenk presenting Nirvana's Panty Smile advert soundtrack and FurQ's 'Uzi Lover' (all played by Chris!)

After watching it a few times - I think I should remove NSFW (as the swearing at the end is censored).