Top 5 things I Dearly Miss
My time in Japan is unfortunately coming to a close. Now that I have only a few days left, I’m getting more and more excited about things that I simply can’t get over here.
CEREAL!
Captain Crunch, Life, and especially my good pal, Count Chocula. Japan’s a tough place to live for lovers of these crunchy morning delights. Here, I basically have the choice of either frosted flakes or chocolate frosted flakes. Sure there’s granola stuff sometimes, but it’s damn expensive. Oh Count…
POPTARTS!
I feel this breakfast treat is a different enough animal to warrant it’s own place here. I really fucking miss pop tarts which is strange since I rarely bought them while in Canada.
PIZZA!
Sure, they have pizza here, but it’s just not the same. While very delicious, you’re looking to pay around $35 for something that equals to about one medium sized pizza back home. What I really miss are those giant cheap-ass slices. Oh, and to eat pizza again without corn and mayonnaise on it! I don’t know why, but most pizza here has corn on every slice. Not that it tastes bad, but the un-corned pizza is missed.
WILLY WONKA’S STASH!
Nerds, Punky’s and every other kind of tooth rotting candy I can possibly get.
SPEAKING ENGLISH!
How novel it will be to finally go to a store and not go through the process of using my crap Japanese. Not that it’s really a big problem to tell you the truth. Japanese is tough to learn, but not as tough as people think. There’s actually rules that make sense unlike our bastard tongues. Still, the idea of speaking English on a regular basis sounds like good fun.
Hmm… so most of what I miss seems to be food based. To tell you the truth, Japan’s a really great place to live! It’s got tons of fun things to do and I find new things every time I go for a walk here. I’d highly recommend hoofing it over here. Bansai!
December 14th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Totally agree on the cereal, I have moved to Singapore from Australia and have found the breakfast cereal selection to be sorely lacking