Curry house of horrors
This evening a bunch of fearless foreigners teamed up to visit the "curry house of horrors" in Atsugi. Actually it is just an ordinary curry restaurant, but apart from various "things" sitting in your curry or on top of your rice, you can order the spice of you curry in 10 differnet spice levels.
From 0 ("No spice at all, suitable for elderly and small childern") to 10. The explanations and comparisons stop at level 5 and the staff refuses to serve anything higher than level 5 until you ate level 5 - and survived...
Real men like our spanish compadre and the evil italian went for level 8 and managed it with ease...
...while we ordinary mortals desperately fought our level 5 curry. It was a long, hard fight, but eventually we managed to eat it completely :-).
After sucking on a lot of icecubes we went to a local arcade place and tried the wonders of modern japanese entertainment industry.
The most fun things were 太鼓(taiko) drums. You stare at an interactive TV that is playing a soundtrack you previously selected. With the aid of colored circles of various sizes it instructs you when and where to beat the touch sensitive drums synchronized to the music. It is a little bit difficult to explain the principle without seeing it yourself, but it is a surprising easy concept and it is amazingly funny. Especially if you play as a team. The main goal is to have fun and gain an acceptable drumming accuracy. Depending on the selected difficulty level you have faster and more difficult to manage combos and there is even a hidden "devil" mode. But it will be a pretty tough way to get there... ;-)
From 0 ("No spice at all, suitable for elderly and small childern") to 10. The explanations and comparisons stop at level 5 and the staff refuses to serve anything higher than level 5 until you ate level 5 - and survived...
Real men like our spanish compadre and the evil italian went for level 8 and managed it with ease...
...while we ordinary mortals desperately fought our level 5 curry. It was a long, hard fight, but eventually we managed to eat it completely :-).
After sucking on a lot of icecubes we went to a local arcade place and tried the wonders of modern japanese entertainment industry.
The most fun things were 太鼓(taiko) drums. You stare at an interactive TV that is playing a soundtrack you previously selected. With the aid of colored circles of various sizes it instructs you when and where to beat the touch sensitive drums synchronized to the music. It is a little bit difficult to explain the principle without seeing it yourself, but it is a surprising easy concept and it is amazingly funny. Especially if you play as a team. The main goal is to have fun and gain an acceptable drumming accuracy. Depending on the selected difficulty level you have faster and more difficult to manage combos and there is even a hidden "devil" mode. But it will be a pretty tough way to get there... ;-)
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