If I was told I had to choose the cuisine of one country and eat only that for the rest of my life, I'd choose Japanese.

Douglas Adams, in an interview with The Observer, March 1995

While I feel that I cannot concur with Mr. Adams here, it turned out that I could also not adequately answer the many questions tossed at me during our recent return to Germany, as to what I eat every day, what I like most, if it is expensive, if it is enough. To be better prepared in the future, I will record all that goes down for one week.

Breakfast

A glass of grapefruit juice and two Cissy-made waffles.

Lunch

Two Cissy-made sandwiches (ham, cheese). A bowl of beef strips on rice with raw egg (gyudon), a cup of miso soup, a potato salad (all from Yoshinoya for together 500 yen). Two Xylitol mints.

Afternoon

A pack of strawberry milk (250ml, 90 yen). A Kit-Kat (99 yen)

Dinner

A small bottle of mandarin orange juice (350ml, 150 yen). An apple and two more waffles.

In order to make more use of my new server, the domain I bought last year and to experiment with wiki technology, I am about to launch Weblog Japan. If it works, it could become a good source of information for people travelling to or living in Japan. For that, it needs to have some initial content (it is empty now). I intend to toss it at the Kanto Trainee list, but before they can play with the site it needs to be a little more polished (especially concerning explanatory pages), and maybe some more features (such as search). But the basic features are already working. See it at http://www.weblog-japan.com/.

It is also a social experiment. I want to see how long such a site can exist without any kind of access control.