Ern in Tokyo: Another Neighborhood Festival (Part 1) / またまた近所祭り（パート１）

Monday, September 22, 2008

Another Neighborhood Festival (Part 1) / またまた近所祭り（パート１）

A couple of weeks ago, the shrine located behind our apartment had their annual summer festival. We were planning on going on Sunday afternoon with our friend Mari and her son Shoei. But Mikako called me right after work on Saturday and said the festival was going on right now as well. So we decided we would have dinner by buying something from the various foodstalls. It was quite crowded at night, mostly with kids and students. But before eating, we went to the shrine to wish for good health among other things. And then, even though this is a Japanese festival, one of the foodstalls was serving souvlaki (Greek version of the Turkish doner kebabs, although I couldn't tell you the difference over here). That was our main meal. But, we also couldn't pass up the deep fried gyozas that were only 100yen for three, or the isobe-yaki which was also 100yen for two (but the isobe-yaki seemed like they were frozen and just reheated). We also had one frankfurter and shared a corn-on-the-cob. Of course, we're still planning on going to the festival on Sunday as well.

二週間前位にうちの裏にある神社が恒例の夏祭りを開催しました。最初は友達のマリちゃんとショー君と日曜日に行く予定だったが、美香子が土曜日の仕事帰りの僕に電話して、今も祭りやってるから、行かない？良いねと答えた私が、「じゃー、夕飯はそこで食べるか？」　ま、食べる前に神社でお参りして、その後にいろいろ食べた。日本の祭りなのに、なぜか毎年ギリシャ料理のスブラキの屋台が出てるので、私たちはいつもそこでそれを買う。（と言いたって、この屋台のスブラキはトルコのドネルケバブとどこが違う？）それがメインで、他に揚餃子（３個で１００円）、磯辺焼き（２個１００円）、フランクと、とうもろこし。もちろん、日曜日も行くよ。