A note on Family Mart and Sunkus and rice ball roulette.

These are like 7Eleven’s, only they have real food there, stuff that Japanese people do not look down on eating. Well maybe they do, but we saw a lot of people buying dinner at these places. There are racks of prepackaged food with people working at the store constantly checking what time that food had been put out so they can take the stuff away if it had been out for too long. It was at Family Mart that I discovered the rice ball. It’s exactly what it sounds like. A ball of rice wrapped in seaweed paper. And each one has a different filling. They are color coded but I tried on purpose not to remember which flavor went with which color, that way every time I bought rice balls I could turn it into a game. A game I like to call Rice Ball Roulette. If I was lucky it was salmon or tuna on the inside, but sometimes I got this red pickled stuff. Not sure what it was but it tasted kind of like chilled barf. But that’s part of the game. You have to eat it!!! Ange never got in on this game with me. She chose a game called sake roulette. But it wasn’t really so much roulette, it was more like she just bought a couple bottles of sake, and drank them over the course of a few days. Yeah, not as exciting as Rice Ball Roulette.