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Munich is hailed for its incredible drinking festival, Oktoberfest, where beer is poured like water and parties abound in the streets. Although it is actually a misnomer because it is held in September. I have not been to this glorious festival, but my best friend from college and I always say how we will make it there one day, almost as if Munich is the Mecca and we are on our pilgrammage. Yet, many do not know how much the Japanese people can drink. I stayed in Hiroshima the whole month of October, and well, every weekend found myself...well...really drunk. Due to the drunken debauchery of the annual Saijo Sake Festival, birthday parties, and Halloween, I hereby dub October 2006, Oktoberfest- Japenese style! A short blog to record (and try to remember) the fun times had indulging in the sweet nectar of life. As quoted from my main man Will Ferrell 'It just hits your lips and it tastes so good...'
Okotberfest....Asahi Style!
Casey Lary2007-03-10 16:50:21
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Munich is hailed for its incredible drinking festival, Oktoberfest, where beer is poured like water and parties abound in the streets. Although it is actually a misnomer because it is held in September. I have not been to this glorious festival, but my best friend from college and I always say how we will make it there one day, almost as if Munich is the Mecca and we are on our pilgrammage. Yet, many do not know how much the Japanese people can drink. I stayed in Hiroshima the whole month of October, and well, every weekend found myself...well...really drunk. Due to the drunken debauchery of the annual Saijo Sake Festival, birthday parties, and Halloween, I hereby dub October 2006, Oktoberfest- Japenese style! A short blog to record (and try to remember) the fun times had indulging in the sweet nectar of life. As quoted from my main man Will Ferrell 'It just hits your lips and it tastes so good...'
Sake Festival
Every year a town east of Hirsohima, called Saijo, holds a sake festival. Despite being a very small town, it is the third largest distributor of sake in Japan! The population of the town triples during the festival. We met businessmen (with remarkably bad teeth) who came all the way from Tokyo ($300 round-trip) just to taste sake. We attended the event last year and had the time of our lives, yet since the festival last year I could barely smell the stuff without cringing. Lisa and I and the rest of the Hiroshima gang got our drinking faces on and headed into the drinking arena. You pay 1500 yen and walk into a closed-off park. It's like entering a drinker's Disneyland. We are given a traditional sake cup and let loose to explore the wonders of sake. Lisa and I decided to keep track of how many cups of sake we drank. For every sake cup we consumed we would make a mark on our arm. As we raised our glasses for the first kanpai, a look of terror crossed our faces- were we really going to do this AGAIN!?
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