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Nice Pictures Danny. I can tell from your pics that You eat out a lot don't ya. Its interesting how the prices for some of your things such as the sushi and pizza were cheaper than the small sandwich.

Just thinking that's kinda odd is all. Oh and in your first pictures, are those little girls looking at you? I can just imagine what they are thinking about a guy taking pictures of them.

quick question danny..
how much does it cost to fill your tank every week?

mine is about AUD$80... i think that's roughly around 83,000 yen with current xchange rate
;__________;

good coverage as usual. Looking at these pictures gives me motivation to continue studying kanji ^^;
So I'll say...thanks for the motivation.

Awesome sum up as usual Danny! I truly love these weekly expeditions into the heart of Japan. Seeing as I broke my leg and saved over three grand on my New Zealand Adventure Holiday I think I shall, and be rightly inspired to, venture into Tokyo this coming fall!

i wanted to ask this for sometime now, but have no idea who to ask.

Wat are those blank and white thingy on japanese sites, newspaper and magazines? like the one in Yui Aragaki's burogu, below the モバイルブログはこちら.. What does it do and how does it work? Care to answer that? Thx ^_^;;;

I have seen a few commercials about that..it shows some guy taking the black and white grids with their japanese-only mobile phone, and after that, they are able to see some videos or some other things...not sure though T___T;;

I notice that whenever there's younger people in your pictures they always seem excited about being on camera XD. I LOVE spicy food, but usually my stomache hurts real bad the next day. Back when I was only 13 or so I messed my stomach up real bad but kept trying to eat spicy food, still do, but my stomach is all better.

I remember having Pasta in Japan before, and I was quite surprised how bad it was. Tasted like Chunky Ketchup on Noodles instead of Italian food, but it could of just been the restaurant I was at (was somewhere in Kyoto). I remember Johnathans being pretty good though.

Something I noticed in one of your pictures though, Why is there 3 nozzles at the gas pump? I've never seen more than 2, which is normally just Gasoline and Diesel.

I must see that hana yori dango movie XD

i love when folks tell me " u won't make it" or " u shouldnt do that" or " give up and get a normal job" cos that gives me more fuel to succeed in what i want to do...gambate!!

Food looks great!!!
I´m impressed with your workplace. Never imagined I could explode on a Gas Station

thought u said had sushi on Mikuru.. now THAT would be fun :D

Lots of Japanese and misc. food, glad I just ate! It seems like as you grow older, you just don't have enough time to finish the games you buy T_T I guess that's why people play online RPG where there's no specific end, you just do party play, raid some dungeons, expansion comes out with more materials and you go doing more of the same stuffs with no end -_- I remember the back in the days I would save my money to buy games like Final Fantasy IV and Axelay and would play them until I beat them and was so happy with the feeling of acomplishment. I can hardly feel like that as of late...

Nice coverage Danny. I get to know more about japan thx to you. Life expense in japan is really high, i can get spaghetti x3 here for the same spaghetti x1 price in japan.

Tako Yaki, Tako Yaki. I tried Tako Yaki from a place on Chuo Dori in Akihabara the last time I was in Tokyo. I thought the Octopus Balls themselves weren't too bad but the guy piled on some kind of dried fish flakes on them as he was handing them to me. I was...not a fan.

I'll be in Tokyo in early October and I think I'll give them another try, minus the fish flakes. What are those flakes called anyway?

Long post is long... forgot the first question.
Ok... we don't do number of accidents and death because it would require an animated version to keep the numbers updated.
If I'm not mistaken, car accidents are the number one reason of death in Brazil.
It's been proven that most of the accidents are caused by wreckless driving, followed by DUI.

About games... too many of them nowadays. I used to complete all games when I was a kid, but just can't nowadays. I usually only play them a little, have some fun, and then try the next one.

But I did finish some. Portal, CoD4... Rocket Slime on the DS and one funny and unknown RPG for the PSP... forgot the name. Gurumin.

Let's see... no Tescos in Brazil.
I also had pasta today... but it was gnocci.

Finally, we have the same taste for graffiti Danny.
Take a peek at the one I got last week here:
http://xspblog.com/2008/07/19/liberdade-1707-animefriends-2008/

great food coverage
okonomiyaki reminds me of horikita maki in teppan shoujo akane
takoyaki is one of my fav - always get a couple when i go to jusco (1 ball around 40 yen).
is jusco huge over there? is part of aeon right?

as for games, its 50% normally finish it. for those i cannot finish - i usually end up cheating (cheat codes or hex edit it) and there are those you can never finish - cause they have no ending (e.g GTA, the Sims, bla la la la )

I have a lot of unfinished games...
Too many to count...
Hey Danny, mind telling me where these food places are?
I want to know where when I head to Japan and eat this kind of food?

BIG Hana Yori Dango fan, but unless SARS gets their hands on it i will prolly have to sit and wait (which means DVD release).
Need to buy all the DVDs of it sometime, and Zettai Kareshi, awesome shows.

If the game gets boring or repetitive, it is likely that it is left unfinished, not to mention if it was bad in game system.

Ah getting figures many months before they are out must be good.

The Pizza with the 1/2 boiled egg doesn't look too bad at all.

Dammit.. that sushi lunch looks good. Used to have lunch at around 1:30pm, but like you said, most of the lunch sets are gone. been eating at 11:30 ever since. mmm... tako yaki...

Now why in god's name would they want to display the casualties and injuries in traffic related accidents?

Danny, I always wondered how would someone without a Japanese name get their Hanko done? Katakana?
I've seen those being sold for like 100 yen but they only come with Japanese surnames.
Also isn't there a higher chance of forgery? since all you need is to buy a 100 yen seal.

Looking at this post made me hungry lol. Especially the pizza. Time to grab some lunch!

Were most of the photos taken using the Sigma lens? If so it's pretty sweet. I'm currently scouting my options for a lens for my D70.

Danny you need to give us some recommendation on restaurants in Tokyo when we visit. Why not do a Danny's favorite restaurant post. BTW I am definitely guilty of not finishing games I bought (I finished less than half of them). I am still not done with Super Mario Galaxy.

I love your food pix danny LOVE LOVE LOVE lol potato and tomato spaghetti, oiishi desuka? I want to try making that sometime ^^ Half boiled egg on pizza? omg!!! XD

oh boy i have so many unfinished games :(
Mostly rpgs...Star Ocean 3, FFX-2, FFXII... GTA4, Ninja Gaiden Sigma... Second play through of Chrono Cross and FFVII. I start but I never finish.

and lol at that building that you never noticed. It ninja'd itself and crept up right behind you.

I really like that first photo Danny. It's a great photo to play around with in Photoshop. ^^

Seen traffic accident signs in state police offices when I was young. Usually during the summer after holidays such as Labor Day when many Americans travel by car.

New hanko stamp is one of the first things my wife and I bought... I never realized that often Japanese have more than one.

I like egg on pizza. My wife also puts tuna fish on pizza.

Sure I knew that... Haven't you ever notices the line of ball-less octopus coming out of takoyaki shops? ^^; Poor things are on the short side, so it's easy to miss them... ^^;

houses in tokyo... not to mention windows at places with no sunlight.

I've never had no born chicken on pizza. Was that actually good? Flavor seems kinda mismatched.
Use to eat alot of spicy food, but I got bad food poisoning once and stomach was never the same. Still eat spicy tho, but I pay the price after. Hershey squirts city.

Gotta bunch of unfinished games. Most due to lack of time or interest. Sometimes a new game comes out and I start playing that instead. Gotta finish Twilight Princess & Metroid Prime 3.

ok Danny....you got me convinced that i need to trade in my old canon s3is for a canon 40D..of which I'll buy at the end of the month...great pics man. can't wait to get back to Japan to take another 450 pictures next year.

No tescos in my place or India. I love spicy food, but i eat in moderation so i dont get an upset stomach. Talking of food, lunch time here is around 1pm, but i usually go around 12.45 to beat the rush. If i go after 2 there's no chance of getting lunch, most probably i'll get served evening snacks.

When i was at OJT we usually eat before 12:00 to avoid crowds, Should we end up at 12:00 we would just take-out the meal and eat it in our office's Pantry instead :)

Back in the NES day's, I only finished half of my games. They were the Rockman series, the only games i took seriously xD.

I finished Rockman 3, 4 and 6 while 1, 2 and 5 i wasn't ablt to complete ;p

Nice pics as usual Danny! Delectable food will never be taken out of your trips eh?

As of now, we don't have lunch breaks since my classes start at 1 in the afternoon and last up until 8 or 9 in the evening, we only have snack breaks which lasts for an hour and a half...

You won't believe this but, I've been playing Mana Khemia since April, but I've only finished it until recently. I also bought Super Robot Wars OG gaiden last April, and I haven't even started on it yet T-T School is too demanding.

Seeing those police boards in Japan was a bit scary! Especially when you know people are out there that should be arrested!!

And I love takoyaki :) I had to have some at the airport when I left for Sydney. It was very sad!

Nice pics. A lot of houses may have a fairly minimalist look to their exteriors, but I find the architecture of large public, and private buildings more than makes up for it. Maybe the simple house designs are way of balancing things out...btw, that bike park looks like an absolute nightmare to deal with. >_<

Wahh, I love your photos ^O^ I love, that you've been making photos from everything around you..
Actually there are Tescos in Hungary too. The biggest one is in (yeah, inside) a shopping centre.
Tesco is popular here, because it's really cheap, but before they started to sell the UK Tesco products, they had been just.. "trashfood", I don't know, how to call it. So it was more a sad place, than a shop, where you could buy something to eat.
Anyway, that changed. But it's still a place for poor folks.. (that's kinda sad, I love the UK Tesco Chocolate Cookies).

Awesome post ^^ I just thought I'd comment about the difference here in Pueblo, Colorado with regards to traffic accidents. Here it's basically tallied up in the local newspaper, where we have sections for police reports, etc. But, if you drive down any of the main roads in town you'll see flowers on a cross in many places where someone died in a traffic accident. Traffic accidents are way too common in these parts, and a large amount of them result in fatalities.

My J-drama fan friends are probably going bonkers over the new movie. xD
I've been wanting to get the Chinese equivalent of a Hanko for awhile. Mostly for the heck of it though, since I'm not planning to move to China or Taiwan anytime soon.

Unfinished games...mostly on my Wii. The adventure kinda games like Zelda and Mario...

i havent finish DMC4, Halo 2, and..wow..to manny to name.... lets name the ones i ahve finish ^^ i finished all the pokemon for gameboy, kingdom heart chain of memories, Bleach 1, bleach 3 (never bought 2...), and...i am working on FFCC

I've never heard of tescos, had to wiki it.
I wouldn't mind having my own hanko, sounds very convenient.

Traffic accidents are very common in australia especially during the holidays, the news sometimes reports the number of fatalities in each state.

I said I never beat games, that's almost true...I've beat maybe 2 or 3 ever lol.

I usually complete games by beating the end boss, but never get 100% completition by collecting all the items and stuff.

Are those small food places situated near train stations? or in back alleys?

So that's what their called, hanko. I've been looking around here for someone to make me one of those. I've always wanted to have one.

Who was that guy Yui had a date with? heheh! That would have been nice if that happened to me. XD

I always love the pics you post about the food. And that sushi lunch set is pretty cheap. But the onigiris are quite expensive. The onigiris here are even more expensive. I wonder why that is.

Oh and I almost always finish my games...except for some of those really huge sandbox games (GTAIV and etc).

Good morning Danny! Just arrived work and look at this nice post.
Personaly i find japanese houses very confortable and enjoyable for living, i find the one green covered just awesome, i like that stuff.

About games, just last night i completed Lost Odyssey an RPG for the 360 (it tooks about 60h. of gameplay for complete it all but was worth of it!). So now i can go back to that monster named Oblivion and the other one jackass namen Grand Theft Auto IV.

so yes, even if it tooks long time i usually managed to finish every games i buy.

Another Japan-filled article by Mr. Danny! This will surely help us with our future if ever we decide to live/visit Japan someday.

Hmm... I'm not too sure about what those stamps do exactly. So basically rather than signing you just use the stamp right? Aww... I'm gonna miss my signature T_T

Oooh, I have a question. On the picture of the Pizza with the half boild egg on it, what is the figure that is standing next to it? Because it looks awesome!!!

Thank god I already had breakfast or I'd get hungry from all the food pics Danny. Never knew about the hanko thing, interesting.

Where to begin with this post...

-After watching 13 episodes of Hana yori Dango a looong time ago, I discovered it was too much of a chick show for me.
-I have tons of games I've never finished. Though I'm convinced some of them are unbeatable anyways (some of my Genesis arcade ports).
-We have that same exact static-hand thing here in CA. Also, gas only costs me 30-ish bucks to fill up. I rarely drive and my Toyota gets about 23/4 miles per gallon. Insurance is my main cost, argh.

Also, I just realized it's 3AM. My internal clock is broken even when I reset it.

Oh yea, and I lost my job recently... I only worked one day! lol

Aww great photos! as always...
Wow I would like to taste okonomiyaki when i go to Japan... looks delicious! yummy!

Potato *and* spagetti? Only in Japan...

I ate at Johnathans a couple of times, it was pretty good value (and easy to order in English). I liked the seasonal menus, pumpkin was popular in October.

Danny: Does the Japanese Tescos have the famous "Tesco Value" product line for credit crunched consumers? I'm more of a "Tesco Finest" man myself, but please investigate for us!!!

"Dont know why they display this but not sure if it actually helps people to become more aware when crossing the road/out n about. Is there something similar to this in your region?"

I remember in my previous home in North Carolina, I always see signs for "30,000 Hours Accident Free" outside of manufacturing plants. I know the military bases give awards for having X amount of hours that are accident free, but mostly for aviation. I haven't see anything like that in California. However, the poster next to the accident/death counter I have seen at a Japanese onsen in Akita Prefecture. Is that a wanted posted, and what crimes usually deserve the wanted poster treatment?

Damn, those food pics are making me drool! That sushi is unbelievably cheap - £4?!?!
Nice to see the johnathans menus too - i never went in there as it looked too american/ british to bother with. Curry fair sound ace though - i eat spicy stuff all the while!
As for games, i complete all the games i buy, and unless theyre particularly great, i sell them straight after i have gotten as many unlockables/ achievements as i can.

I don't think the police here show the traffic accidents or deaths...

So many bicycles... If there was something like that here, the bicycles would slowly dissappear one by one...

LOL Mikuru is being served for lunch and dinner...

Hey Danny, do you use the discharge electricity thingy when you fill up your car? I didn't know that a person could have so much static that he could blow up the place...

Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing!

awesome food!!!

is that sailormoon the movie??? i never seen before, i thought only in anime

Er… I do have a bank account at a Japanese bank, and do not have a Hanko.

Lunch break at work for our department- MARCOM, because there's only 6 of us, can be taken at any time. We usually go around 2pm because 12-1pm is the business in the kitchen/canteen area and that it makes the afternoon shorter by having a slightly later lunch.

We have national and state road tolls or traffic accident reports on the news at least weekly if not daily. They usually make a bigger deal about it during holidays to warn people to drive more safely and compare it to previous years' road accident fatalities.

Most of the games I buy nowadays go unfinished mainly because I just don't have the time or patience to play it regularly enough. Last game I finished was No More Heroes, which I still want to go back and play a second time to collect the game artwork cards. Still want to finish DMC4 as well. Can't think of any games that I brought that were a waste of time. I'm not into GTA-type games any more and I still haven't got MGS4 mainly because I know I just won't have time for it.

I love takoyaki or octopus balls :) There aren't any takoyaki takeaways in Melbourne that I know of and last I heard the only real one in Sydney just reopened and relocated.

We don't have a Tesco here in Australia but they were planning to bid for one of our giant grocery retailer Coles but pulled out. We have the US Costco coming here soon though. Personally, I want Tokyo Hands. Wonder if they would call it Melbourne Hands...

I just got my car checked up last weekend. Cost me AUD $320.

Spicy food is not in my daily diet, but I do love curries, especially Thai green curry and Japanese curry.

Great coverage once again, Danny! Much appreciated.
We have a board that announces raod deaths/accidents here as well, Arrive Alive is the group that advertises it (I think). Very nostalgic, seeing those older games, are they easilty available in Japan?
Jo looks very different on the Pachinko sign, did I miss something?

When I was learning to drive back then I always had to travel pass a tunnel in a hill. At the entrance of one side shows the annual casualties (injured + deaths) from road accidents as well as the casualties as of today. They usually stay around 18,000 to 19,000 range, with roughly 200 being deaths.

Perhaps others are lucky enough not having to see or hear demotivating things as often as I have to; I've even heard them from family members now and then.

I won't take their words of course Danny, but I adknowledge that they did say them so I understand their situation(s) and why they think in such way. For me it's also important that I understand such people while not taking their words. That was why I made such a long and random reply in your suicide campaign post a while ago, not as a rant but to let people unstand why such people take such actions:

http://www.dannychoo.com/detail/mac/eng/image/1476/Suicide+Campaign.html#comment156014

thank you Danny! you remember me the name of what I eat in Paris one year and six months ago: Bibimbap!

Pizza with half-boiled egg!!? o.O is that for spreading over the pizza or rolling on the table? seems really weird to me ^^; I really cant stomach spicy stuff; once I eat it, my tears automatically roll down for no reason.

I remembered I was playing Diablo II and theres once when I cant take the shock from dying in such a lame place (being owned by zombies and died infront of the first boss' door) that I quited for months, but I did return to complete the game.

Spicy food, yum. I adore spicy food, and I don't mind 'slightly' spicy...

Dammit, the sushi and katsu looks delicious. I don't know what to think about the egg-pizza, but hey, I won't knock it until I try it.

Haha its the first time I see a boiled egg and a pizza coming together as a single dish. How do you actually eat it? Do you break it open and then let the yolk flow out?

never finished sprinter cell. stuck on the oil rig level.
never finished prince of Persia: Warrior Within. hated the camera angle. too hard to control movement.

Good as usual, Danny. I usually beat most of the games I buy, but is true that lately have less time to play games. Most times, I play game until finished or unblock all secrets, finish all dificult levels, or beat all foes... When was child , I even beat two or more time a game, and now , I hardly play again a game when finished it...

finished all the games i bought, never have time to finish all the anime i have though hurhur
btw just watched the dark knight, awesome stuff. When's japan showing it? they are gonna have a heck of a time trying to translate all those joker lines...

Unfortunately, this is not a lack of will, but a lack of
time that I can not finish some video games. That is why
I appreciate more and more games where you can register anytime
and resume later when they want.
And that Soul Calibur IV fate in a few days!

lovely shots <3

kiddie graffiti + panda = win

2 phones = free wii...hm quite win. just chuck out the phone or take advantage of the Japan gleam to sell the phones to people?

Tesco finally invaded the States but in the form of Fresh and Easy.

I don't have a set time for my lunch I can take it anywhere between 11:30 and 2:30. I usually go around 12:30 unless I'm busy and I go around 12:00. The food looks really good but I'm not so sure about egg on pizza or spaghetti on potatoes.

Does anyone every yell at your for taking pictures during your travels?

i'm one of those who finish less than half of my games. hey, great to see lots of meals that less than 1,000 yen. whenever i see anything that i like (even a little) that's less than 1,000 yen, i'll just buy it cos u never know when u'll see it again.

do u mean u r not using an iphone now?

think its cool that u show wat's the happy meal toy for each week. ^;^

I'm a game freak --_-- lol ... probably finish the game I bought in about 1~2 days ...

great post. one of these days I'm gonna make a trip to Tokyo

The food looks delicious, I would totally go at that pizza. There is a thing with gas stations- as you open your tank lid there is a hint of vapors coming out, also there are vapors released as you fill up- so it is for the best to discharge any static before filling. I always touch the body of my truck to discharge static, and before I work with any sensitive electrical components (mossfets) I ground myself and rid myself of static. It is rare, but static electricity mixing with gas vapors can and will cause a catastrophic explosion.

Um, tescos?

Hello Danny!

Are you going to be out in armor sometime this week? I would love to take a few photos.

Very inspirational opening words there Danny. I just recently made a youtube video on a similar concept. I wonder if you'd host it? hehe =D http://www.youtube.com/cruxay

oh... and you are mentioned in it, if that helps my chances at all haha.

I wish i could speak/read&write japanese. And could go to Japan. That food (except salmon roe, icky) looks so yummy!!

Wow, the McDonalds toys there are so much better than here. Here there awful ><

i'm on diet, please have mercy of me

I finish all the games I buy, but I buy very few of them, latest was Bioware's Mass Effect for the PC. I usually try to make sure I like the game before buying it.
Aa, and I just recently managed to finish DMC4, I did enjoy it, especially the crazy cutscenes:) But some level design was a little annoying. And they reused the bosses a little too much IMHO.

Curry Fair! I think I know what time of year I want to go back to Japan again in ;p

Thats the one thing I miss the most, is the curry. All the tonkatsu over here is like 3mm thick, dry, and without curry. Really sucks.

I usually finish my games but I get stuck sometimes.
We have Tesco's here but is mostly tesco value (i.e. cheap stuff). When I was in England I found stuff with Hungarian text on it. Denmark got wasted, LOL.
That date looked kinda strange for me. (asking to hold hands, standing meters apart) but the girl was cute:D

At the rate this is going, Mikuru will quickly find her way to the endangered time-travelers list >.>

You make me want eat so much food T.T

I used to finish every game that I bought when I was a kid but now , I finished less than half of my game due to boredom. I got bored easily with a game ^^;;

Man the BLT looks good!

Yeah I have this problem too - some games just take up too much time and sometimes the games are not even opened!
And yes, Spicy food is very much part of my local cuisine - so often that I get sore throats all the time!

Hmm i have a few of those seal type things, except they're made out of stone instead.
I recently finished DMC4 and it took a total of 11 hours on normal difficulty, so its pretty short. Most of the missions usually only take 10-15 min to finish and theres a save after every mission. Good if you want to play something but have little time. Dunno about the length of the other games though.

Damn you Danny T_T Your pics of the food you eat always have me drooling

Just seeing all your food pics make me want to take up cooking as a hobby as well as try new dishes. Egg on a pizza, interesting. I'll have to try that one day.

Haven't actually finished any games for like in a year , kinda sad when i think about it T_T . by the way i liky spicy food ^^

I only buy games that I will finish, otherwise I don't buy them ^.^

Got mgs4 and beat it three times without playing any other game xD starting mgo after I had enough 1p action.

I used to play all night until I finished a game, nowadays I can hardly stand sessions longer than 4 hours. I don't know if it's the quality of games that has degraded, or my motivation. But I can't get around finishing games these days like I used to.

I bought GTAIV, never got passed 50% simply because I couldn't get rid of this ''meh'' feeling throughout the game. Same thing happened to me with The Witcher, stuck at the beginning of chapter 4. I hope Fallout 3 and The Force Unleashed bring some change in that.

Maybe it's just that I'm beginning to lose interest in games, as I'm getting older.

Wow busy week huh Danny.

busy but very fun!!

Nice week it seems..
^_^

I finish most of the games thay I purchase, though I didn't finish "Xenosaga II" since I couldn't get used to the battle system at all and it ended up frustrating me too much. And I play games to relax and enjoy myself, so I dropped it.

As for lunch, yes, corporate and regular restaurants, food vendors have a huge peak around noon to one past noon over here.
Where I currently work I tend to just stuff my lunch in my mouth shortly after noon while working and running around as I don't make the time to relax and sit down properly to eat these days. (I usually bring my own sandwiches to work.)
However this isn't healty so I need to start taking a suitable lunchbreak again to eat calmly. But I rarely can bring myself to do so when I see the work that piles up.

Oh Danny you cruel PERSON! I was writing something and poof it went because of the F-word? Come on we have ecchi and wordfilter too ? You could at least provide us with our saved text , that way we can "repent".
Anyway apart from the wordfilter/dispossession of users , I also have trouble logging in. I spent 5 minutes in order to succeed. (FF 3.0.1 on Win XP PRO SP2 Media Center 2005)

Apart from that, I think it's awesome that you can just walk into a shop and take pics, because you dont give a *** . I did try to take pics from a shop once and things got rough! I still don't give a f*** though .

Every video image I've tried to open has a 'No longer available' sign which comes up instead. I often get the occasional one, but this time it was all of them. Could it be a UK thing, i wonder?

I can barely start a game I purchase so of course I have trouble finishing them. I have about 15-25 games that I have not started on yet and a majority of those are JRPGs. Games that I have started recently have all made me think I'm liking video games less and less.

I usually finish the games that I buy, although sometimes, it can take a while... Especially if there's some kind of post-ending secret stages, or something like that.

E^d

Very nice. It seems like you eat out a lot. ^^ But of course the food must be really fresh!

I don't really play a lot of games nowadays, but I do finish the ones I buy. Anyways, nice to see some Gakki goodness! :)

That food looks very tasty.
I have to finish Final Fantasy VII, because I had problems with my PlayStation...

I live in a state in Malaysia where 'Masak Lemak Cili Api' is famous
it's a very very very spicy yellow coloured gravy cooked with fish/ chicken/ meat/ seafood
fresh tumeric, lemon grass, chillies (the small super spicy ones) and coconut milk are the main ingredients....
and there's also 'sambal' ...fried blended dried chillies (you have to boil it first before you put it in the blender) cooked with almost anything...
if you know nasi lemak then you obviously know what it is...:D
so yes basically I eat spicy food on a daily basis

I like that the "Frog figurine" is like everywhere in your photos :D