Tokyo - Initial Impressions III
At the grocery store, all the fruit is wrapped in plastic packaging as you can see. After paying for your purchase, the cashier puts the fruit into individual paper bags and tapes it up, then puts those packages into a plastic bag or paper carrier bag for transporting. T says this is to ensure that your fruit does not become bruised.
Back home, I have often lamented the fact that all food shopping seems to be geared toward the non-single consumer, i.e. groups of two or more. But this is pushing a bit!
Umbrella bags.
When it is raining and you are going into a store, many establishments provide umbrella bags, plastic bags to cover your umbrella while you are inside the store. This is to prevent water dripping from your umbrella onto their floors. When you leave the store you discard the bag in the garbage provided.
Tokyo has no recycling program that I can see. T says garbage here is divided into two categories: burnable (food, paper, organic-based) and non-burnable (everything else). Given the amount of plastic packaging I have encountered thus far, there must be a massive amount in the latter category! This is a shock to me, as Singapore was very much into recycling, and back home I try to stick to the Reduce-Reuse-Recycle philosophy as much as possible.
A square watermelon.
(This isn't environmentally unfriendly, just a weird picture I thought I'd put up.)
I thought these were grown this way for efficiency of storage, but T says it's just a trend thing. Apparently the square watermelons are expensive (you think?) and don't even taste that good.
Holy crap! Guy walks away for a few days and comes back to find a novel. Nice work! You're putting me to shame here.
ReplyDelete1. What kind of looks are you getting while taking photographs in the grocery store? Or maybe with their hot-shit watermelons, Japanese grocery stores are used to it by now.
2. I love that you're gonna hike Mt. Fuji, visit traditional inns and hot springs... and then follow that all up with a Coldplay concert. Was Shonen Knife sold out already?
3. Thanks for the plug. Your kindness aside, whatever quality may exist on my blog is negated by the fact that I can't tell the difference between a city and a country.
4. Pick me up one of those frog on a stick things. That shit looks tasty, yo.
Have a great time but know that we all miss you.
Isha,
ReplyDeleteYou have a new mission.
I want you to grab two of those watermelons, and throw them down an aisle as hard as you can.
When they hit the floor and stop yell out...
SNAKE EYES!
That would make you my hero.
PS: Go to my blog and check out the trailer.
:)
I, for one, am glad that you don't update your blog too frequently. Perhaps its some sort of psychological defect, but I have trouble keeping up with blogs. That said, I will now put in a plug for my own blog, that I have now had for 3 years and has been updated a total of once:
ReplyDeletehttp://keeleychampagne.blogspot.com/
Impressive, don't you think?
I'm glad you're having a good time. I can't wait for you to get back- I'm feeling very lonely in your absence and I can't remember the last time I went this long without some guacamole.
Cathy