Day 186: Gifu

It's been two weeks since school started up again for fall semester. While it's nice to get out of the house and be a little productive, it makes me sad that I have to relegate my days of rolling-around-in-bed-doing-nothing to the weekends.

Shortly after I came back from Korea, my host family took me on a two-day trip to Gifu.

 

There are these soumen restaurants where the noodles float down these chutes and you catch with your chopsticks. I believe that in Kyoto they have these long bamboo chutes where you catch the noodles from.

 Some time ago in Himeji, we went to a soumen restaurant where you got your own water-jetting plastic chute thingy. 

There was also this place where you can fish from a pond, and for the fish you catch, you gut it and grill it yourself. 

 

The fish I caught!

 

My host dad grilled it.

 

My host brother eating the fruits of my labor.

 

There's also a shop that's famous for making fake food, like the ones you see on display outside of restaurants.

 

They also have a small workshop where you can make your own fake food.

 

And make it into a cellphone strap.

Part 2 coming in next post.