BBQ

Lee and I went camping with a small group and had a big barbecue. It was a typical Japanese barbecue consisting of:

• slices of beef
• hot dogs on sticks
• two kinds of sausage
• sliced onion
• sliced Japanese pumpkin (kabocha)
• shiitake mushroom caps
• cabbage leaves
• chicken (I think this was bought specially for me since I don't eat mammals)
• dipping sauce

There was also rice cooked in mess kit tins. It was perfectly cooked and much tastier than 99% of the plain white rice I've had in Japan. I don't know if it was the water, the slight trace of wood smoke, or the rice itself that made it so good. I don't think it was the fact that we ate this after hiking around a mountain, though I guess that's possible too.