On one summer day I, with my host family and my classmate, went to eat budō – grapes. We were planning to go for about a week ahead though I was clueless as to what to expect. What could “we're going to eat grapes, it'll take us whole morning and we are going to bring lunch (lots of rice) with us too, so make sure you’re free at all cost” possibly mean?
Not knowing where were we actually going, I was quite surprised to find out that it was not some field or something, but a public place, even with a grape-roofed parking lot, where families gather and for a fixed fee feast on small sweet grapes until they collapse and don’t want to see grapes ever more.
The system is simple… You find a vacant place, get a plastic bowl and scissors, cut off the grapes from above and eat until overdosing. The funny thing is the height of the grape roof was just about 1.5 metres. Which resulted in me (1.8) walking like a goblin with funny looks all over me; the mostly shorter Japanese didn’t have to struggle too much while walking.
After we could see nothing but red since our eyes have turned into grapes too, we packed and headed to Naka Okazaki train station… From where, I and my friend, headed to Nagoya to witness The World Cosplay Championship 2008!
More in the next post…
Photos:
Quite an original roof for a parking lot
Welcome to the grape...eatground
The grapes were low
Let's eat!!
Ugh. No. More. Grapes.
Ever.
The new hot road truck cabrio edition
Sweet! ^^ Literally.
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