Sunday, June 24, 2007

Downtown LA

We found some sweet finger puppets on Olvero street.













I was excited to check out Famima, the kinda newly introduced American opening of the Japanese Family Mart convienence store chains. They had Konbu onigiri, which excited me, and some other stuff I've missed, but were sadly lacking in Dars chocolate and Lemon Water. And also, Little Tokyo is so dissapointing after having actually lived in Japan. I kept speaking to everyone in Japanese and they'd answer me in English, and I didn't find everything I was looking for in the bakeries. Oh well, it was still fun.


Here's Tegan in Chinatown, we had some nice pastry things and bubble tea. Did a bit of marketing for some cool bags in the market. The lady asked where we were from, Tegan said Seattle, and she said oh, that's how you know how to bargain! I felt I must have done a pretty decent job of it, though I've never bargained in Seattle, it's all about the markets in Asia baby! A backpacker's gotta learn how to bargain there, no choice.

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