@ Tenoji Temple

Funny little video clip I thought I would share...

Melissa and I were at a nearby temple - Tennoji temple - for the monthly flee-market (every month on the 21st). It is essentially an outdoor flee market with lots of booths and tents selling everything and anything you would expect to find at a flee market back home - dollar store items, old clothes (of course these are mostly kimonos and Yukatas), coins and old paper money, swords, jewelry, books, trinkets, and old electronics...
We were passing by this one booth, in the food booth section, when someone shouted out "chellengie, challengie". We looked back and there was a short little man waving his fanny left to right while grilling "something" on his mini barbecue, looking up at us between rotations. He waved us over, handed Melissa a raw piece of "something" and said "challengie..." pointed at his baked piece of "something" and directed Melissa to cook hers up on his BBQ... the results are recorded here for your entertainment.



...incidentally the "something" turned out to be what I can only describe as puffed sugar (Imagine cotton candy pressed down into little "fillets" like the one Melissa started off with). It was sweet and kind of granular if you let it melt on your tongue. Kids probably get wired on this stuff. It was quite tasty "oishi", but I wouldn't want more than the half he broke off for me. I tasted Melissa's too... she did a very good job cooking hers, I must say. I suspect only because she finally got the "wiggle" just right :). Good job Babe!


Mike