{"id":32031,"date":"2013-09-20T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=32031"},"modified":"2013-09-20T04:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T08:34:00","slug":"wit-life-250-mochi-mochi-and-more-mochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/20\/wit-life-250-mochi-mochi-and-more-mochi\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #250: Mochi, mochi and more mochi!"},"content":{"rendered":"

WIT Life <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>(Kumamo<\/a><\/strong><\/em>to-ken<\/a> CIR, 2000-<\/strong><\/em>03).\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>She starts<\/strong><\/em> her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she sha<\/strong><\/em>r<\/strong><\/em>es some of the interesting tidbits and <\/strong><\/em>t<\/strong><\/em>r<\/strong><\/em>ends along with her own observations.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>\"20130827_182121\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am at the tail end of my State Department interpreting gig here in Hawaii, and was glad to find that even when you are far from home you are never far from other JETs.\u00a0 I sat down to breakfast the other morning in my hotel, and who did I see but fellow NY JET alum Mark Flanigan<\/a>!\u00a0 He was here on ICU business, and I was lucky enough to catch him before he flew back to NY that night.\u00a0 Small world!\u00a0 Tomorrow when work ends I’m planning on reuniting with a Kumamoto colleague from my JET days, a Honolulu native and a dear friend I always catch up with when in town.<\/p>\n

Of course \"20130827_205543\"<\/a>Japanese influence abounds in Hawaii, and in the past I have written here<\/a> about my favorite shop at the Ala Moana Mall, Kansai Yamato<\/a>.\u00a0 I have yet to visit there during this trip, but I am very much looking forward to it and am sure their amazing selection will satisfy this time as always.\u00a0 When I was in LA I did have the chance to pick up some mochi at Little Tokyo.\u00a0 Miyakawa<\/a> is a well-known mochi supplier\/bakery, but I tend to favor the historical Fugetsu-Do<\/a> which is celebrating its 110th anniversary this year.\u00a0 It has a wide array of offerings, but I tend to stick to the tried and true peanut butter variety.\u00a0 My last trip to LA was no exception, and I shared the pb mochi with some Japanese clients who found the taste “interesting.”\u00a0 When I get to Kansai Yamato I’ll probably pick up enough to share with my current clients and am curious to see their reaction as well…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WIT Life is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03).\u00a0 She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations. I am at the tail end of my State Department interpreting gig here in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[70,18,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t