I wholeheartedly agree! I spent some time in Tokyo this summer, and it was a few weeks until I really started to taste the food - everything is spiced much less, and plain rice makes up much of the diet, but there's a lot of subtlety and delicacy in the flavours. By the time I went back to the states, I realized things about food I'd been eating for years. Like sushi rice - sushi rice is flavoured slightly differently depending on the type of sushi, but until I became acclimatized, I never noticed.
We may be somewhat lacking in new releases, but the Traditional Games area at Origins is worth stopping by. The US Chess Federation, American Bridge League, the American Cribbage Congress, and the organization I belong to, the American Go Association, all run events at Origins.
Come by our booth in 2006 for a game, or to learn how to play!
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I wholeheartedly agree! I spent some time in Tokyo this summer, and it was a few weeks until I really started to taste the food - everything is spiced much less, and plain rice makes up much of the diet, but there's a lot of subtlety and delicacy in the flavours. By the time I went back to the states, I realized things about food I'd been eating for years. Like sushi rice - sushi rice is flavoured slightly differently depending on the type of sushi, but until I became acclimatized, I never noticed.
We may be somewhat lacking in new releases, but the Traditional Games area at Origins is worth stopping by. The US Chess Federation, American Bridge League, the American Cribbage Congress, and the organization I belong to, the American Go Association, all run events at Origins. Come by our booth in 2006 for a game, or to learn how to play!