BR 1-00: The Restaurant of Many Orders

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Reference

Miyazawa, K. (2003). The Restaurant of Many Orders. Tokyo: R.I.C. Publications.

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Example reviews for essay six (due July 16)

I've compiled a list of example reviews to make it easier for you to find them as you work on your sixth essays, which are due by high noon on July 16. The Writing IIIc assignments for essays number five (175+ words) and number six (200+ words) were two different kinds of reviews.

For example, if your fifth essay is a restaurant review, then your sixth can be: a CD review, a movie review, a TV program review, a video review, or a webpage review. Here are examples on the Writing Studio Blog (labels: reviews), in a list distinguishing links from URLs:

• Link: Restaurant: Star of India (March 13, 2007)

URL: http://writingstudioblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/restaurant-star-of-india.html

• Link: Movie: Dreamgirls (March 16, 2007)

URL: http://writingstudioblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/movie-dream-girls.html

• Link: Sean Bean in Sharpe adventure films (April 12, 2007)

URL: http://writingstudioblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/sharpe-advententure-films.html

• Link: Website review: Introducing the People Tree (July 2, 2007)

URL: http://writingstudioblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/website-review-introducing-people-tree.html

Even though I've made the URLs above as small as readily possible, some of them are still too long to fit on a single line of a blog post. Moreover, all of the URLs listed above are too long to fit in the catalog of essays that you must complete for your online portfolios (§ 1.1.). That's why you need to use links to your essays, instead of just URLs.

Kumamoto-i: links, mailing list & wiki

Kumamoto-jo [castle] in the spring
Originally uploaded April 8, 2006,
by overoften (some rights reserved).

In this post, I'd like to introduce three Kumamoto-related websites, namely the:

1. Kumamoto Links,
   
2. Kumamoto-i mailing list, &
   
3. Kumamoto-i Wiki.
   

I've added these links to my sidebar already (see: Local Favorites).

The first site is "a gateway to regional information and Kumamoto's vibrant Internet community," Kumamoto Links. The links are "a by-product of the Kumamoto International mailing list" (Yahoo! Groups: Kumamoto-i), the second site, which Kirk Masden started in 1999.

Kumamoto Links is an organized collection of information about Kumamoto, much of which mailing list members have found and shared. Either the Introduction (top left) or the Favorites list (top right) is a good place to start browsing to find out what's in Kumamoto Links already.

Among favorite Kumamoto Links you can find the Kumamoto-i mailing list subscription page. If you are looking for something else, like restaurants, I suggest that you use your browser search function (command/control F - that is what I did when I was trying to find the Star of India).

The third website that I'd like to introduce is the Kumamoto International Wiki. This site also is a collection of information about Kumamoto. Yet it differs from Kumamoto Links in that it is a "wiki, a collaboratively edited website, for people living in and around Kumamoto" - in fact, anywhere in the world!

As with Kumamoto Links, you are welcome to browse the Kumamoto-i wiki, but you also may make contributions directly to the wiki. "If you'd like to start, check out the Getting Started page for help." I've been over and found a niche for info. about the Star of India on the wiki just now.

Restaurant: Star of India

Friends invited me to a new restaurant last Saturday, the Star of India in Shimotoori. It is so new that I could neither find it in online guides to restaurants in Kumamoto, nor get the phone number from telephone directory assistance.

The Star of India is on the south side of the side street south of Tsutaya. (Try saying that three times fast!) That is, the restaurant is about a block east of Shimotoori; it's on the second floor.

I found it easily without a map or address. Someone in the neighborhood with a digital camera-equipped cell phone sent me the picture - thanks!

There were a couple of loud patrons there at first (around seven p.m.) and lots of smokers. Be forewarned: the Star of India is a small place, and there is no no-smoking section. Since it appears quite popular, I recommend making reservations in advance.

Image courtesy of Free Food Graphics

Of course the food is good, and serving sizes are generous. A set for four to five people was more than four of us could eat. The mango lassi is delicious.

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