smells like asian day

yesterday was the first annual asian day. what is asian day you might ask? well, asian day is a day to experience all things asian. by "all things asian" i mean several asian things accessible by the 98 B-line. asian day got off to an inauspicious start as we wandered around the rather lame yoahan centre in richmond, but things picked up when we found the drink aisle in the supermarket. fond memories of japanese vending machines came flooding back and while they didn't have hot chocolate in a can i was happy to see that the 400 mL coke bottle cost the same as the 500 mL coke can, just like in the real japan. this was only the beginning of crazy japaneseness (japanery? japanocity?). we then went to daiso, the $2 store that was chock full of things i didn't need to buy from japan.





after daiso we walked through aberdeen mall, which is a mall, but where everything is asian (perfect for asian day!) the highlight of aberdeen was the photo booth where we had no idea what was going on, but ended up with some sweet shots anyway. then there was a heated game of bishi bashi (a chinese video game where you try to hit the right button as fast as you can). so, in reality it wasn't heated and cathrine kicked my ass repeatedly. in my defense, she is of asian descent and i'm pretty sure all asians are good at bishi bashi (one lesson not learned during asian day: stereotypes are stupid. the vw commercials tried to teach me that and it just didn't stick).





so, after aberdeen it was off to richmond centre for some dairy queen, which i'm pretty sure is asian. then we swung by the asian market where you can buy used clothing and squid at the same time. and thus concluded asian day. by all accounts it was a rousing success. cathrine summed the whole experience up by saying, "we're getting more asian all the time."