![]() ![]() In the past decade, three family-owned sushi restaurants in the area have shuttered. Next to close was probably the butcher shop, they say, then maybe the Chinese restaurant after that. People squint a little and say it was probably the electronics store a decade ago, or maybe it was the rival fishmongers across the street from each other. No one can say exactly when the first shop on the street closed. ![]() In the 35 years since they opened up shop, the couple has seen many of their friends move away for a job or family, only to return decades later, often without the job or the family, their absence unspoken.Ībsence is a part of life here on what remains of the Medaka shopping street, a road so narrow that cars have to drive up onto the sidewalk to let another vehicle pass. “You’re lucky you have each other.”Ĭhef Masatoshi Fukutsuna and his wife, Mitsue, smile without a word. He nods at the man and woman behind the counter. “It’s just me now,” he says, his mouth still half-full with vinegary rice and fresh fish. ![]() A hospital consent form he just signed is handed around and examined at the bar. Caught between the rarefied world of $300 (£237) omakase dinners and the brutal efficiency of chain-restaurant fish, mom-and-pop shops like it are fast disappearing.įujinuma, 76, pops sushi into his mouth and thinks out loud about the arrangements still to be made for his sister. She had her usual sushi and a beer, then walked home with her cane past an abandoned karaoke bar, past the empty tempura restaurant, turning the corner where two more pubs used to stand.Įiraku is the last surviving sushi bar in this cluttered neighbourhood of steep cobblestoned hills and cherry trees unseen on most tourist maps of Tokyo. The chef and Fujinuma talk about how his sister was last in a few years ago, stopping by after an evening dip in the public bath across the street. They start mid-sentence with no hellos or how-are-yous and veer into private thoughts without much fanfare, punctuated by news of ordinary tragedies. He lines the leaf with a dozen nigiri sushi and hands Fujinuma a mug of beer.Ĭonversations roll on like this at the Eiraku sushi bar. “You took good care of her,” he says, placing a sheaf of haran leaf on the chipped black counter. After a pause, the chef returns to his cutting board. Another customer peers over the top of his sports pages. Thanks to LavaLampBamboo for the tip.“I’ve just come from the hospital,” he says, tapping the filter end of his cigarette on the bar. Regular readers will likely know that this isn’t PETA’s first foray into the world of videogames in 2008 it put out Mama Kills Animals, a parody of the famous Cooking Mama series, and last year used World of Warcraft to stage an event protesting the Canadian seal hunt. It also serves up a heapin’ helpin’ of pro-vegan programming like “Vegetarians make better lovers” and “LOL Meat Boy’s bad breath.” Downloadable versions of the game are available for the PC and Mac, while those who just want to take it for a quick spin can play a Flash version online at. Gameplay echos that of Super Meat Boy fairly closely, although the PETA version is much shorter, with only ten levels on offer. Once Bandage Girl slept with Tofu Boy and saw all that he had to offer, it was bye-bye beef, hello bean curd.”īut Meat Boy doesn’t take this turn of events very well: he snaps and kidnaps Bandage Girl! Now it’s up to the sexy, strong, oh-so-healthy Tofu Boy to save his love and deliver a righteous, soy-based beatdown on his putrescent nemesis. “After a short-lived fling with Bandage Girl (sympathy dates, really), he became enraged when he was dumped for the tasty and satisfying Tofu Boy. And he smells,” the PETA website explains. “Meat Boy is a vengeful, bloody cube of rotting animal flesh. But now there’s a new version of the game for the most die-hard of the “meat is murder” crowd: Super Tofu Boy, which recasts the action to turn Meat Boy into a bad boy. Super Meat Boy is a 2D platformer for the PC and Xbox 360, with Wii and Mac versions on the way, in which players step into the boots of a small cube of meat who must save his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from the evil Dr. PETA has turned its videogame parody talents to the indie hit Super Meat Boy, reimagining the titular slab of meat as a rotting chunk of evil who must be stopped once and for all by the heroic Super Tofu Boy. ![]()
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