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Bedtime Story - "Peeps at Many Lands: Japan" * (Patreon)

Published:
2022-05-24 05:13:20
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2023-05-25 05:52:35
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2022-05
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*🐸  This version of this month's Bedtime Story has freshly woken rice field peepers at the beginning and end, a second all-frogs-all-the-time version will be coming soon. So you can choose which one you like. 🐸

This month's Bedtime Story is a couple chapters from a marvelous book titled Peeps at Many Lands: Japan by John Finnemore (it's on Gutenberg). I read the introduction and then the chapters on tea houses, shrines, and temples. The day I read was the same day the farmer filled and flooded all his rice fields behind the house, so you have a whole bunch of froggy goodness at the beginning and end. The All Frogs Version I'll post soon.

In other news, Patreon emailed and said they were going to do a revamping of the website and it sounds like it will make it easer for me to go back and fix up old posts. I want to make sure the tags are all right, make it easier for patrons to find old Bedtime Stories and such. 

Also, postcards will be going out soon, too! I have been getting some back and having to resend enclosed in a letter. It almost seems like letters get to people better than postcards for some reason. Everything. is. so. slow. 

I've been getting some other content ideas and want to fool around with those soon, too. See what everyone thinks. 

But for now I need to get hopping on episode 101. It's the one that makes me woozy. 

楽しみに！Tanoshimi ni! XO,

Terrie

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Bergkattse

He sounds a lot like my 80yo Scottish mum (and dad) who came to visit me in Japan Christmas ‘23. She absolutely loved the people, the shopping, the shrines, the bullet trains but the food! Even things like tempura shrimp that’s deep fried she was convinced was raw in the middle. We’d try and persuade her by saying things like yakiniku is steak and onions, gyudon is like mince and tatties 🤣 she did like some ramen we got her in Osaka which was basically noodles in cream of chicken soup. My dad on the other hand tried everything: takoyaki, onigiri, uni, shirako, sakura niku etc. When I tease my mum about to our relatives she does point out she flew all the way to Japan just three weeks after a heart attack so wasn’t feeling too adventurous. Luckily there are excellent bakeries in Japan which she loved and several British restaurants in Yokohama which were great. She did not care for Japanese tea either!

Uncanny Japan -- Thersa Matsuura

Same! My mother loved the bakeries to a frightening degree. She was brave enough to try takoyaki, but always pulled out the tako bits. Still, she brags to everyone back home how she ate OCTOPUS BALLS! Tea is a no go for both mom and dad. I really didn't realize how non adventurous they were until I came to Japan myself and discovered all the great food. A potato was my only vegetable for 16 years. That's only a slight exaggeration. Sometimes we had canned green beans.

Ana Farias (edited)

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2026-09-06 01:00 I just lost count of how many times I listened to this audio! So relaxing with the music and your voice. I downloaded the book. I love British humor and I had a lot of fun with the grumpy comments about the tea, the food, the chopsticks. I really wanted to live the experience of a tea house in Japan, but I suspect that I wouldn't care for the tea served either. I try to force myself to drink green tea, but I can't get past the smell of it (it smells like fish to me!). About sea cucumbers, I've seen some videos on the internet where people eat them. Is it the same thing I'm thinking? If so, I've always found the way they eat to generate "entertainment" very mean. It looks like torture. About frogs: I have an inexplicable dread and just cannot look to them. But I love the music they make. The sound you recorded reminded me of my grandmother's house in the countryside. Just loved to sleep listening to the frogs party in the nearby swamp. Finally, I loved everything about this audio! I wanted the entire audio book narrated by you.
2022-08-16 13:34

Uncanny Japan -- Thersa Matsuura

Oh dear! I have found that green tea in Japan is LOADS better than almost everything I got in the States. I don't know about Brazil. But I was quite shocked by how it tasted like nothing there and wasn't even pretty green! Richard had to force himself to drink it for years until he ended up really liking it. Thank you and Frog Party is a great name for a band. 🐸

Ana Farias

I'm team oolong and that's usually what I buy from stores that sell really good tea. But I wouldn't bet that the green tea sold here is of the same quality as the Japanese one. Compared to the United States, what is perhaps a point in Brazil's favor is that coffee anywhere around here is much better than the North American one, so maybe our green tea from specialty stores deserves a chance? I'll see if I can get inspiration from Richard! 🤭 Ps: I would listen to this band!