On Friday October 23, we had a welcome party for the new ALT and a surprise birthday party for one of the English teachers. The party was held at a restaurant called Danpo (暖歩), which means warm walk. The food was really good, and it was Japanese style (washoku 和食). Naturally, it was all you can drink as well. I don't think I've been to a party (飲み会 or 宴会) in Japan that didn't have all you can drink.
There were many courses of food, this is the salmon egg and marscapone canapé. Before this we had, baked tofu. Note that it is decorated with momiji, or Japanese maple. Since it is autumn, the maple leaves will change colour, so they are popular fall imagery and decorations.
This is a Yuzu (a Japanese citrus fruit) and tofu soup. It was very yummy.
Before this dish, we had sashimi. This is an assortment of grilled things. On the left there is tsukune, or chicken balls, and the thing with the holes in it is lotus root (renkon, れんこん). In the middle is sawara, a Japanese white fish (it is apparently Spanish Mackerel). On the right is grilled kabocha, or Japanese pumpkin. I love Japanese pumpkin so much. It's so good. They are green on the outside and orange inside. The plate was decorated with more momiji leaves and sweet potato cut into maple leaf shapes. After this course, there was pickles, miso soup, and rice. There is always soooo much food at these events.
There was dessert included with the meal, it was pumpkin pudding, persimmon slices, and carrot cake (not in the way we know it though). However since it was one teacher's birthday, I ordered a cake. This is it. We surprised him with it at the end.
That night was kind of freaky, because a man with a knife was seen around the city. At school, there were a lot of police. A warning was issued to watch out for a man in a black suit and helmet carrying a knife. Apparently there wasn't any danger though, he had tried to rob a convenience store but ran away when the staff called the police. When we first heard about it, we thought it might be a crazy guy stabbing random people... But I don't think anyone was hurt.
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