Thursday, September 05, 2002

"��������"(Zuboraya) restaurant serves globe fish (in Japanese: ���� fugu ) with a comparatively economical price (for a basic one set meal, cost around 1,700 yen). Globe fish is very poisonous and can be lethal to your life if eaten with the inards. Restaurants who serves globe fish in japan bear licenses (to kill?).


Personally, I think it taste like snake. The fugu sashimi is served with vinegard and other stuffs (rather than the normal soy sauce). Here is a map to the Umeda Zuboraya shop.


Tuesday, September 03, 2002

Hearton Hotel Nishi Umeda in Osaka is an inexpensive and decent accomodation options. Its within walking distance to the JR Osaka Station. Its a pretty new hotel. And did I mention its inexpensive? (around 8,000 yen for a single room and 8,500 for a double room) Reservation can be made online at here!
Hotel Monterey Kobe is modeled after a medieval Italian monastery. When you want seek santuary from the tempting Kobe beef, I recommend you to consider there. The lobby, escalator as well as the courtyard were such a treat!




A Chinese page with the hotel info
An English page with the hotel info
While I have only eaten Kobe beef once, that restaurant that I went to was pretty good and comfy. Its called "�O�c��" (Sanda Ya). They also sells delicious marinated plum. Tips: go there for lunch to get a bargain price!

map and address of one of the Kobe shop

map and address of the one of the Osaka shop

Monday, September 02, 2002

My PDA, Sony CLIE NR70V, broke down on me today. The soft reset just keep looping when I press on it. So, finally, I have to do a hard reset and thereby erase all its content. Fortunately, the backup restore software works seamlessly when I sync up with my PC. Phew! That was close.

I was a previous owner of a Apple Newton MessagePad 130 (by the way www.newton.com still points back to the Apple Computer website). While the UI on Newton is still significantly better, I love the superfine hi-res screen and the built-in camera features on the NR70V. The camera comes in very handy especially when I want to take pictures of, say, several pieces of furnitures that I wanna buy for later comparison at home. The super fine and comparatively big screen can also be used as a photostand for the tons photos that I took with my digital camera. Without it, I probably would seldom print them out nor watch them on my PC.