{"id":706,"date":"2004-03-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/706"},"modified":"2009-02-06T12:56:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T20:56:50","slug":"i-hate-to-sound-like-the-typical-gaijin-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/706","title":{"rendered":"I hate to sound like the typical gaijin, but…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…Ever since I came to Japan, I’ve been craving a GOOD
\nburger. I’ve been to the Redrock Pub in Nagoya and had the biggest
\nburger I’ve laid eyes on, but it wasn’t that tasty: a reasonable meat
\npatty, half of a tomato, and a couple pieces of lettuce enveloped in a
\nfootball-sized bun. When I was eating it, I could taste tomato and
\nbun… I knew the meat was there, because I saw it, and I could feel
\nit, but I just couldn’t taste it.<\/p>\n


\n\"I'm
\n
Today, I had the opportunity to go to the Hard Rock
\nCafe in Nagoya.<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

This was actually my first time to visit this brand of
\nestablishment. Ever. It never intrigued me, before. But I had
\nexpectations of a decent burger. The atmosphere was great. The staff
\nwere good looking, and spoke decent English. The music was good; I
\nliked every song. It was busy. All these things did not matter to me. I
\nwas only interested in the burger.<\/p>\n

Hickory-Smoked-BBQ-Bacon-Cheese-some-thing-or-other.<\/i>
\n1500 yen? Bring it on. How would I like it, she asks? Medium rare. I
\nknew it would be good. I mean, I just had to look at the amount of
\nflare the staff were wearing. The place was decorated with autographed
\nguitars. They played Elvis. It *had* to be good!<\/p>\n


\n\"It
\n
It was fucking delicious.<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

I had finally found my holy grail, and could put down my sword
\nand shield. However, I decided I’d play it safe, and visit the import
\nstore, as well. I bought corn chips and salsa with great plans of
\navocado, onion, and cheese soon to follow. Oh yes, this will be the
\n“epic-er” nachos, and I will even take pictures of them BEFORE
\ningestion!<\/p>\n


\n\"The
\n
fin<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…Ever since I came to Japan, I’ve been craving a GOOD burger. I’ve been to the Redrock Pub in Nagoya and had the biggest burger I’ve laid eyes on, but it wasn’t that tasty: a reasonable meat patty, half of a tomato, and a couple pieces of lettuce enveloped in a football-sized bun. When I… Continue reading I hate to sound like the typical gaijin, but…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,211],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-japan","tag-ljimport","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-bo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}