Beef Deluxe

After finishing the fortress, all the under thirties, there were 6 of us, went to a beautiful onsen. This one had many pools of different temperatures and several outside that were dotted amid a traditional Japanese garden. After warming up and cleaning off we went to a barbecue restaurant, that they told me was being payed for by the principal of the school who gave us 20 000 yen for dinner to thank us for our work. We sat around the barbecue table as the eccentric yamaji-San ranted about the Spanish intern who came a few years ago who wouldn't stop taking pictures of him and everything. According to him, he would take over a thousand a day. They then informed me that they ordered the beef deluxe for us to share and grill. I was relieved and surprised we were eating something as normal as beef, no, it couldn't be, something's up. It was as I suspected, beef deluxe was actually a sampling of various body parts of the cow, even some, that the waitresses couldn't identify. There was however cow stomach, liver, tongue, heart and skin. I didn't eat the skin, but the others were surprisingly okay, although the stomach was very chewy.

 I'm definitely going vegetarian when I get back.