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Japan Photos 2001 - 2005 |
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Sightseeing
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Japan Photos 2001 - 2005 |
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| A Chemistry Experiment |
 Inspecting a strange purple liquid |
 It was amazing how the white gas exuded from the purple liquid ! |
 The side view into the flask yielded interesting observations |
 The scientist explained the chemical reaction in detail |
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 The scientist's twin brother |
 Another scientist |
 The scientist noted the results of the experiments in a spreadsheet |
 The foreign scientist |
| Nabemono 1 |
 The Nabé in the Japanese Room (Oct 2001) |
 The Prawn Nabemono up close. Nice. |
 The Nabemono cooking in progress |
 Testing the German digestive drinks |
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| Nabemono 2 |
Nabé or Nabemono food is a hot-pot where various ingredients (vegetables, fish, meat) are cooked in stock/broth in a Donabé (unglazed earthenware pot) on a portable stove. |  Nabé cooking in full swing at Suzuki-san's flat (Nov 2003) |
 Rice and raw egg have just been added to soak up the rest of the soup |
 Nabé cooking is a good way to heat the room! |
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| Crab Nabé |
 The crab before entering the Nabé pot (Dec 2003) |
 Here is the crab opened up after Nabéing it |
 The crab Nabé eaters |
 This is how to eat mochi - pounded rice cake (like hotmelt adhesive) |
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| Turtle Nabé |
 Me drinking the turtle blood in saké. Tasted rather strange. |
 The chopped-up turtle bits before entering the Nabé |
 The chopped-up turtle bits in the Nabé. (Dec 2003) |
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| Various Food & Drink |
 Ban-san downs the Killepitsch (German high alcoholic spirit) |
 Eating delicious watery melon on the balcony |
 Natto (fermented soya beans) |
 Rossogolla is a Bengali dessert made of curdled milk, starch and sugar |
 Isobe-san eating a Rossogolla |
 Thomy Rot Weiss from Germany (tomato sauce and mayonnaise) |
 The chopped-up tako (octopus) for the takoyaki |
 Takoyaki |
Takoyaki is a small pancake ball made by mixing flour and water and cooking on a specially made hot griddle mould with egg, vegetables and a piece of boiled octopus. Mayonnaise is then spread sparingly over the resulting takoyaki balls and bonito and seaweed flakes are sprinkled on top. | ||
 Tai fish (red snapper / sea bream) |
 Tai sashimi (red snapper / sea bream) |
 Grilled Oyster |
 LA PIÈCE Wine Bar, near Shin-Iizuka station (EXCELLENT) |
Oden (below) consists of many ingredients such as gammodoki, konnyaku and tofu boiled for many hours in kobu (kelp stock). | |
| Family Pub in Iizuka |
 Inside "Hana Kyabetsu", friendly family pub |
 The special "crazy food" specially prepared for us |
 Me and Naoki with ice cold Sapporo beer |
 Ban-san and the friendly waitress Satomi |
 Oden at the "Hana Cabbage" Pub |
| Bounenkai |
 The Bounenkai (end of year party) Dec 2003 at Tarafukutei たらふく亭 |
 Me on the right |
 Group at the Bounenkai |
 Andou-san at the Bounenkai |
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| Beer Party 1 |
 The party group in the Social Room, July 2002 |
 Kimuchi and beer, July 2002 |
 Me wearing an inflatable advertisement, July 2002 |
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| Beer Party 2 |
 Isobe-san with the special brew, Apr 2003 |
 Itoh-san and Andou-san at the smoke extraction table, Apr 2003 |
 Tasting some German liquor, Apr 2003 |
 Cleaning and drinking-up the remnants after the party, Apr 2003 |
 Group in the Social Room, Apr 2003 |
| Xmas Cake Party |  The Weihnachts-Stollen and Glühwein, Nov 2003 |
 Ban-san demonstrates the cake eating with chopsticks, Nov 2003 |
 The "Dirty Harry" licorice alcoholic drink went down well, Nov 2003 |
 Iizuka view from Nogami President Hotel |
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| IIZUKA Karaoke Snack Bars |
 The entrance sign at the Joy Shouchiku |
 "Active"アクティブ is in the Cosmos Building 福岡県飯塚市飯塚3-20-4F)next door to the Joy Shouchiku Bldg. |
 "Active": Someone is being propped up by the hostesses (Nov 2003) |
 "Active" also has nice fish tanks (Dec 2003) |
 "Revenge" リベンジ is in the Joy Shouchiku Building 2F (Nov 2003) |
 The entrance sign at the COSMOS building with many snack bars |
 "Revenge": Air-guitar being tested (Nov 2003) |
 "Revenge": Karaoke singing in progress (Nov 2003) |
 "Treasure" トレジャー is in the Joy Shouchiku Building 5F (Dec 2003) |
 "Treasure" me and the hostess (Dec 2003) |
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ICE BAR, IIZUKA (closed down indefinitely! |
 ICE BAR is in the Joy Shouchiku Building 5F. |
 "ICE Bar" is in the Joy Shouchiku Building 5F. Ban-san, Me and hostess Tomo-san (Dec 2003) |
 "ICE Bar" Me doing Karaoke. My Entertainment Advisor was temporarily resting (Dec 2003) |
 ICE BAR Yuki and Tomo, the hostesses. |
 ICE BAR Yuki, Me, Tomo, Ban-san (Apr 2004) |
 Me and Ban-san doing Karaoke (Apr 2004) |
 Crazy Shingo-san and Matsumoto Takashi-san (he made the ICE sign) |
 The TEAM at ICE (Apr 2004) |
 Me, a guest and Yuki the boss |
 ICE was part of EMULSION a good food bar (Dec 2004) |
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BVLGARI, IIZUKA |
 The BVLGARI classy lounge bar in Iizuka |
 Me and Ban-san and the YSL high class hot towels (Apr 2004) |
 Inside Bvlgari |
 Yuko and Suzuki-san |
 Yoshie gives Ban-chan a leaving present ! |
 Me, Ban and 3 beautiful hostesses |
 The core TEAM after the leaving party, (Mar 2004) |
 At Bvlgari after the Bonenkai (Dec 2004) |
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| North Kyushu Map | IIZUKA City Overview Map | updated IIZUKA Detailed Map of Yoshiwara-chou |
| Detailed Map from http://www.ikutoko.com/ Address/Map finder: http://www.mapion.co.jp/html/AddressList/40/40205/index.html Restaurant List: http://phonebook.yahoo.co.jp/a140/a240205/g103/g20186/ Pub and snack bar list: http://phonebook.yahoo.co.jp/a140/a240205/g103/g20085/ Joy Syochiku Building ( ジョイ 松竹 ) 福岡県飯塚市飯塚3-20: Cosmos Building 福岡県飯塚市飯塚3-20: Bvlgari (ブルガリ) 福岡県飯塚市飯塚1-39 Matsudaya (Turtle Nabé) 松田家 0948-25-2771 福岡県飯塚市大字柏の森503-1- 1F Nogami President Hotel, Iizuka, Fukuoka: http://www.nogami-group.co.jp/hotel/ Dictionary: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html |
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Updated 23 OCT 2005
