18
Feb
Quick, It’s the Gyoza Man!
Topic: Japan 2007
In our neighborhood in Tokyo, the gyoza man is like the ice cream man in the US: he comes down the street in a cute van playing a tune, but he’s got hot gyoza instead of cold ice cream. We ran out to get some the first time we heard him, and his gyoza was fresh and tasty,. The gyoza truck is a variation on the more common and more traditional yaki-imo (baked yam) truck. You can use the audio controls below to hear our neighborhood gyoza truck. (Sorry for the sounds of wind and rain in the recording. He only comes down our street when the weather is bad. My guess is that he thinks folks won’t want to hike to the restaurants that are about a 10 minute walk from here when the weather is bad, but that they will come down to the street corner for some fresh gyoza).
If for any reason the player doesn’t work for you, the MP3 file is here.
For more about yaki-imo trucks, and a (much clearer) recording of what they sound like, see this post at the Japan Visitor site.
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