By: Atty. Marlo T. Cristobal
I would like to share with Banateros viewers some travel anecdotes of my family in Japan which l have already shared though with a few friends sometime ago. I reproduce them here as my recommended luscious guidance in their travel plans ahead, or for their reading treat. As they are quite long, l will narrate them in 8 episodes.
Yesterday, the start of the family booked travels this year, we made our first touch down at Kansai Airport, Osaka, Japan. Right after depositing our suitcases in an APA Hotel at Namba, Japan, without losing any minute, we proceeded excitedly to a place called Dotonbori.
Dotonbori is indeed one hell of a carnival for food. It absolutely does justice to its worldwide moniker, “The Kitchen of Japan.” If l may be allowed to put in my metaphor, it is Japan’s Las Vegas of Food or Divisoria of Food where thousands of patrons join their own preferred cues leading to their sought food or to where their palate takes fancy of, amid an endless and broad array of sole Japanese food concoction every corner of Dotonbori. It might as well be the Paradise of the gluttons and the gormanders.
But the story does not end here. As the stomach gives in to the demon of a strong appetite, it makes a mean turnover thereafter — making an irresistible command for you to make an urgent dump, but luckily here in Japan, you end up normally in a chamber of relief, spic and span, where you relish delightful and pleasurable moments while dumping, thanks to the unique and admirable toilet technology of Japan.
So, friends in your travels you might want to experience (if you haven’t yet) these two unique technology wonders of Japan — culinary and waste dumping. Contrasting subjects, yet consummate complimentary in functions that are worth passing on to wanderlusts.
