Christmas Kaiseke:

Then it was Christmas. Our first Christmas together actually. And we were in Kyoto. So we decided to do the traditional Kyoto feast which is something called Kaiseke (I may have spelled this wrong). This is a ten course meal full of things like tofu, raw prawns, and pickled salmon cheeks. So while you were most likely eating turkey, mashed potatoes, and most likely some form of pie, angelica and I were eating fugu. This is also known as puffer fish, which if not prepared correctly will kill you. I guess it happens about once a year. Angelica thought it tasted great. I just thought it kind of tasted like fish with a lot of bones. But it made for high comedy as we pretended to die over and over again. There were other things too. It was a fun experience, but I felt a little bit like Ralphie in A Christmas Story. Although the wait staff did not try to sing us Christmas carols.

List of ingredients of our Christmas dinner that could have killed us:
-Fugu

List of ingredients that were once part of a salmon’s face:
-Salmon cheeks