I've had an enjoyable, sometimes tiring and informative week working in Japan. It will be nice to get back home to Michael and the animals... sleep in my own bed, eat some homemade food, and have alternative TV options (instead of CNNJapan and BBCWorld).

But probably the most interesting part of the week have been the dinners. Here are some of the more usual things that ended up on my plate this week...

1. Chicken skin (grilled on a skewer)
2. Chicken cartiledge (skewered and crunchy which a soft chicken meat chaser)
3. Fish spine tempura (as part of tonight's 3 hour dinner with various tempura courses and finishing with pineapple tempura and mango sorbet)
4. Pigs feet (four feet's worth were brought to the table... a whole pig...cooked in a dark brown glossy gravy, similar to what you would make from a gravy packet... I had about a toe's worth... a pinky toe)

And I'm wondering why I have a stomach ache right now...