Ramen and Las Vegas

Very long fingers, from doing the "peace sign" for the camera too often.

The first day of my winter break from work (we had a whole week with no working days, which is incredibly long by Japanese standards!), I met up with two friends who also do magic. The plan is that the three of us will go to Las Vegas and watch lots of famous magicians together.

We met and talked about when it would be possible to go, and what shows to see etc. We also had ramen. It was great.

Ramen from all over the world

My friend is using an ancient cell phone, so it requires a lot of concentration when taking photos.

In Japan, you have to give presents to everyone you know or work with after every trip you ever go on. Usually you give them small cakes. One of my Japanese friends hates sweets, so he has asked me to bring cup noodles from different countries instead. I have not had time to meet him much recently, but last week I had an evening with nothing planned, so I went to the bar where my friend works and gave him noodles from my trip to Oxford and from my trip to Sweden.

This thing that I was served was great. A cracker with something that tasted of crab.

He tried the "Kabuto" brand from Oxford first. Kabuto is a Japanese samurai helmet, but the noodles were "beef flavored pho", which implies Vietnamese noodles. Everyone that tried them agreed that the soup part was not bad, but the noodles were bad.

There was also curry noodles from Britain, and two types of soba noodles from Sweden. One was "classic yakisoba", and the other was chili flavored soba. My friend has not mentioned trying any of the others yet, but then again I have not had time to meet him so we have not talked.

Tiny and not tiny whiskey

I also mentioned that I had bought a bunch of tiny bottles of alcohol, and he said he wants to collect lots of those too to make a tiny bar for decoration.

Soup curry ramen

Our student cafeteria has started serving "soup curry ramen" (again). This is ramen noodles were the broth is similar to soup curry soup, and the topping is kind of similar to what you often get in soup curry. Not bad. But I like the soup curry better with rice than with ramen.