For the last week, while Brandon has been busy getting his sister married off in Nashville, I have been visiting my parents in Aizuwakamatsu, Japan in Fukushima prefecture for the holidays. They will be living here for about a year because my dad is working here at the moment. It is a pretty small town, with a population of about 100,000, so there isn’t much to do except eat! I love all the food I have eaten so far. The weirdest thing I’ve eaten are these little fried dough balls with a bit of octopus tentacle hidden in the middle. They make and sell these at little stalls inside the mall, as a kind of junk food. Here are a few pictures of some of my favorite meals.
The last one is actually Vietnamese food, but the lady who owns the shop where we ate it speaks Japanese so I think it still counts. As you can probably tell, I like eating things from lots of smaller containers for some reason.
After the new year, I will be traveling across the middle of Japan (to Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kyoto) by train with my siblings.
