Nabe!

Today was Sunday...a nice and relaxing Sunday! I was on my way back from Tokyo and there was a nabe party happening in Togane...so of course I stopped by to eat dinner!

In Togane, there's an organic place up in some mountains where there was a venue to prepare food and be able to accommodate many people to all gather and eat. And so we did just that! A group of ALTs from around Chiba and some other friends all got together to create and eat nabe!

For those of you who don't know what nabe is....basically it's an Asian dish where you mix anything together...and eat out of it with different sauces and ingredients. But the most typical things to put in are cabbage, other vegetables, meat (pork, chicken, seafood), and noodles. We had 4 different pots of nabe all with different flavored soup brewing. Yeah, 4!

It was a delicious mix of everything and we definitely had a lot of food leftover! There was a lot of food to begin with and even though we all came hungry, we still couldn't handle the amount in front of us! Well, we all ate to our heart's content and then hung out for a little bit. It was a fun time and it felt nice to catch up with some of the other JETs. As well, it was cool to meet some new people. At these events, there are always new people and it's a great way to meet either native Japanese people or other JETs that you just haven't met yet.

All in all, a good time and hope to eat more nabe again sometime!