On Saturday, Kuniko’s parents and sister came over for dinner. It had been a while since we had seen them, and we had to catch up on our summer holidays as well as receive a bunch of fruits, vegetables and goodies. We cooked up an Indonesian-style dinner. Nasi goreng, shrimp harumaki, and I slow cooked a pork roast all day and served it with a peanut, soy and lime sauce.
We had a nice evening hanging out with the family. Usually we go over to their house by car, which means that one of us doesn’t drink alcohol while we are over there. Saturday we both could drink and that meant a little bit of a wilder party. It was fun.
My schedule this week includes a couple of events. I’ll be going out to dinner with some students (both current and former) on Wednesday, and then on Friday Kuniko and I will go to a (new?) brewpub that serves local beers on tap. This is a big deal – local beer is just starting to catch on, and there are all kinds of government regulations to make it very difficult for new breweries to start up. A lot of these regulations were helped along by the big four brewers in Japan. It’s even illegal to do home brewing in Japan. Anyway, I’m hoping that the bar is a nice one – it could turn out to be my next hangout.
