Sado - English signs and donuts

If you arrive at the port in Ogi by ferry, as a non-Japanese tourist, you can have a hard time finding your way around. This is because there is hardly any information available in English. Megumi has also noticed this and today she wants to search the area at the port with us and consider what needs to be improved urgently. We also talk to a few tourists from America who had problems renting a car. Not only the flyers and posters are in Japanese only, the employees also often speak very little or no English at all. I explain to Megumi that it is very difficult to translate Japanese texts with Google or other apps, as the characters in combinations sometimes have completely different meanings and the app often does not recognize this correctly. In the same building there is also a souvenir shop, which has the same problem. Everything is in Japanese and there is no one who could translate it. Why should tourists buy something if they don't even know what it is? Next up is the tourist information. The first thing we notice is that none of us would have known that it is a tourist information office. You can also rent bicycles there, and the sign that would have told us that there is more here is, like almost everything here, in Japanese. So we go inside and look around for a while. I find bus tickets and timetables, of course in Japanese. I explain to Megumi that I have the map saved in English on my phone, so all we have to do is print it out and add it. She looks at the bus tickets and starts laughing. There is a QR code on the ticket holder and next to it it says that you can get the English bus ticket here. In Japanese. Seriously? Well, that's why we're here. After we have covered all the important points, we get some Tayaki and make our way to Megumi's house. There we all cook lunch together and I carve some chopsticks because we forgot to bring some and Megumi doesn't have enough for everyone. After the meal, we prepare a dough for donuts. The donuts are more of an experiment today as we want to try if they taste good with rice flour as well. We make two kinds, one with wakame algae and one with sweet potato paste. However, the dough has a different consistency due to the rice flour and we can't really shape it into donuts, so we just make small balls. The whole thing is then fried in a pan on the rocket stove. Both kinds are super delicious (especially sweet potato) and I will definitely cook them at home, just like all the other recipes.