６月２８日（日）

picture: the Terminator in Korean Town

In the early afternoon I met Etsushi again at Tsuruhashi Station and we walked to コリアンタウン (Korean Town). We got a little lost in some narrow, winding shopping streets lined with older shops. Etsushi said the little streets were like a 迷路 (meiro, labyrinth). When we got to Korean Town there were a lot of street vendors. Korean Town itself was fairly small, a couple of blocks long, but there were many food and shopping options regardless of space. I tried a chicken skewer that I can't remember the name of and a Korean rice and vegetable dish called pibinpa for the first time. Also, we found the Terminator! ... with kimchi and daikon

After that we went to a little coffee shop Salon de Amanto near Osaka Station and I ordered an 天人コーヒー (amanto coffee, which I misread as tenjin coffee because life is hard).

In the evening Etsushi went elsewhere and I decided to find my test site ahead of time so I don't follow my own time-honored tradition of losing my way to important events. Apparently doing this kind of preparation is called 下見 (shitami). Turns out I found the place, but got lost and way overshot the station on the way back. I was nearly back at the station when I finally asked a sweet family of three with their little boy for directions. The dad basically said "See the tracks? It's right there." Haha, foreigner fail.

(All names used in this blog are pseudonyms.)