Trekking @ Izumi Gatake & The Worst KFC Ever.

On Saturday I had the opportunity to go trekking with mitsuru and his 2 friends from his former Uni's Mountain Climbing club, Fumi-chan and Sugeno! :) We went to a mountain pretty close to Sendai, Izumi Gatake - Coincidentally, it's where our yearly church camp is held, and last year, one of the camp's optional activities was trekking/hiking!

the whole climb took us a total of 4hrs. The weather was exceptionally cold (for the start of autumn - i think it got to about 12 degrees - in the city.) and it also rained and drizzled for most of the climb up. so we get a bit soggy and our shoes looked like they went for a mudbath. not to mention my pants... haha!

it was fun! looking forward to going climbing again before winter comes! Have to go before the end of October, if not it gets too cold and it starts to snow!!!


On Sunday, mitsuru and I went for a long stroll in town and we ate the WORST EVER KFC!



The Chicken was:

1) SUPER EXPENSIVE - 1760yen (about S$23, for 6 pieces of chicken and 2 drinks ONLY - no coleslaw, no mash potato NOTHING. BOOO to the Stingy pple at Japan's KFC.)

2) Super GREASY - the original chicken was horrible. without a doubt, we would have been able to eat better, and much cheaper chicken if we had bought some at the supermarket's time service sale (after 9pm, the prices of perishables like sushi, fried chicken etc get slashed!)

3) COLD - I couldn't believe my tastebuds - the chicken tasted as if someone had just taken it out of the fridge and put it in the microwave for about 20seconds. to make matters worse, when we sent the chicken back to the staff and requested that they heat it up again, they put the chicken in tepid oil - and they told us that they 're-fried' the chicken. there was about a 1 degree change in the chicken's temperature and a 200% increase in the grease factor, making my appetite: 0%.

I know many of you love japan. but please don't EVER step into a KFC restaurant here. I have to eat REAL JUICY KFC in Singapore. KFC Singapore Rocks.