Get ready to spend 3 beautiful weeks in...

Thailand! So I bought my flight to Bangkok yesterday, just around $750 American roundtrip, which was a pretty good deal from what I was looking at. So meeting up with some friends in Thailand, may swing over to Angor Wat for a few days, but a majority of our time will be spent on Phuket island. Then on August 16th heading over to the other side of the peninsula for the infamous "Full Moon Party," described in a recently bought travel guide as "Apocalypse Now without the war." ?

check yourself Fugu wreck yourself

So we walked by this a few weeks ago one late night in Tokyo. This is Fugu, the poisonous ass blowfish that is a delicacy here in Japan. Supposedly its toxic enough to nearly kill a person instantly and the chefs who prepare it must be rigorously certified. If think Fugu means something like "pig fish" which makes sense because its ugly as all hell. As for the price of said delicacy, the small plate costs right around 9000 yen (about $90) and the big ass plate at the bottom 20000 yen (about $200). And while Japanese people love it, I watched an Anthony Bourdain special where he tried it and said it didn't taste like anything at all.

Holy shit...

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/08/japan.stabbing.spree/index.html

So yeah, I was in Tokyo when this happened. Pretty gnarly.