It's a Man's World

Today we had an interesting experience where we were picked up early in the morning and driven to a place (or near a place perhaps) called Saijo.  There, we participated in a cooking class where Japanese people sign up and learn how to cook foreign dishes from foreigners.  We were not actually teaching anything, but we were there to assist which meant we did some prep, and then we actually joined the cooking teams.  They had like this amazing kitchen stadium rec center that this all went down in, and I really liked the experience!  The one on one interaction with real Japanese people however was the most interesting.  I made some observations.

First, and the most blatant is that they really can't get over calling Aulani a Disneyland hotel.  What are they are they advertising here in Japan?! I am yet to see.  It is not Disneyland, there are no rides...it's a hotel.  I mean seriously they need to pull it together and I explain that.  I even explained that Mickey and Minnie and friends occasionally come for vacations only, they don't live there.  And I explained how important Hawai'i is to the resort...I am always such a Cast Member.

Second, Japanese men must not do anything in their homes because I kept saying I'd wash the dishes or dry them, or do something and they're like, "OH no no no!" but I just did it anyway because I wasn't about to just stand there and try to look pretty or pretend like I knew the first thing about cooking any of these dishes.

Third, some of these Japanese aunties are like ridiculously good in the kitchen.  I'm not saying my family is bad at cooking, but the housewives of however many years are SO fast and do SO MANY amazing things with knives....I'm amazed.

This concludes todays observations!

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