Tracy Slater

Tracy Slater
Location
Boston & Osaka,
Birthday
October 11
Bio
Tracy Slater is a freelance writer caught between Boston, where she is from, and Osaka, where her husband is from. Her book "The Good Shufu: A Wife in Search of a Life Between East and West" (http://thegoodshufu.wordpress.com/) is forthcoming from Penguin's Putnam imprint. She has published pieces in Best Women’s Travel Writing 2008, Boston Magazine, the Boston Globe, Post Road, the Chronicle Review, Asian Jewish Life (a title that always makes her husband laugh), and more. She is also the founder of the Four Stories literary series, which runs events in Boston, Tokyo, and Osaka (www.fourstories.org), and the recipient of the PEN New England 2008 "Friend of Writers" award.

JANUARY 27, 2013 7:48AM

Shopping in Osaka: Celebrity Ass Wipes, Relaxing Toilet Seat

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Shopping in Osaka: Celebrity Ass Wipes, Relaxing Toilet Seat Covers & Painful Ramen

Today we spent the day shopping for Shogun Sr's new room at the care house.

We went looking for bathroom wipes, which, I am not lying, were labeled "Ushiri Celeb-u"; a product name that translates to "celebrity ass." On our way, we passed some toilet seat covers, which we didn't buy, but here's a picture of one of them:

  Osaka toilet seat cover

Then we went out for ramen. The waiter gave me a very kind bow and handed me an English version of their menu. Some choice items:

  Osaka sesame ramen

Osaka spicy ramen 

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Gee, there's something you can't see in America these days...... honesty in advertising!

;-)

"R"

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Uh...I'd say don't get the "painful ramen".... :-)
Enjoyed!

I posted once about English things on menus in Italy. Demonstrates the problems of dictionaries and babble-fish.