Today's Picture: 017
Feb. 12th, 2009 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkanToday's picture is of:
kaitenzushi! Or "conveyor belt sushi," as it's called in the West. As can be seen from the picture, the sushi comes out of the kitchen on a conveyor belt which circulates past tables and counters where customers are free to choose the pieces they'd like to eat.
Prices are calculated by plate. Some kaitenzushi use color-coded plates that correspond the price of individual pieces of sushi; at the restaurant where this photo was taken each plate costs 100 yen, although not all plates have the usual two pieces of sushi on them.
The pictures on the wall list the various types of sushi that you can order via a touch screen above the tables. They come out on special trays electronically encoded to chime as they approach your table so you don't confuse your order with another table's. Once you've eaten you feed the empty plates into a little shute that keeps track of how many you've eaten for easy bill calculation; send five down and you can play a short video game to win little prizes out of a box above the table.
And to celebrate getting TP back on track, have some bonus shower scrubby action:
I'm just not heartless enough to leave my shower scrubby cold, wet, and alone in my claustrophobic and dark Japanese shower, so I hung it up on my curtain rod during the day (the colors match nicely).
I think it was pretty lonely, because when I woke up on the 16th, it was doing this:
OMG THE CUTENESS IT BURNS!11
Seeing its little froggy face staring up at me from under my pillow pretty much convinced me to bow to the inevitable: I will never use it as a shower scrubby again (at least not while it's still pleasantly citrus-scented from previous use).
Really, I think this problem could be solved if my rectangle allowed pets.
That will be all.
kaitenzushi! Or "conveyor belt sushi," as it's called in the West. As can be seen from the picture, the sushi comes out of the kitchen on a conveyor belt which circulates past tables and counters where customers are free to choose the pieces they'd like to eat.
Prices are calculated by plate. Some kaitenzushi use color-coded plates that correspond the price of individual pieces of sushi; at the restaurant where this photo was taken each plate costs 100 yen, although not all plates have the usual two pieces of sushi on them.
The pictures on the wall list the various types of sushi that you can order via a touch screen above the tables. They come out on special trays electronically encoded to chime as they approach your table so you don't confuse your order with another table's. Once you've eaten you feed the empty plates into a little shute that keeps track of how many you've eaten for easy bill calculation; send five down and you can play a short video game to win little prizes out of a box above the table.
And to celebrate getting TP back on track, have some bonus shower scrubby action:
I'm just not heartless enough to leave my shower scrubby cold, wet, and alone in my claustrophobic and dark Japanese shower, so I hung it up on my curtain rod during the day (the colors match nicely).
I think it was pretty lonely, because when I woke up on the 16th, it was doing this:
Seeing its little froggy face staring up at me from under my pillow pretty much convinced me to bow to the inevitable: I will never use it as a shower scrubby again (at least not while it's still pleasantly citrus-scented from previous use).
Really, I think this problem could be solved if my rectangle allowed pets.
That will be all.