Yatai...

Perhaps one of a more local japanese culinary experience. Sitting huddled together in winter with other people in a temporary little wooden hut, drinking beer and eating ramen or yakitori has its definite charms. Beer seems to taste better served in little glasses, ramen has more flavour in the cold and damn, if you do not feel a certain comradeship with the dude in a suit next to you. You can sit there and grin like an idiot over the conversation you do not understand and still no one would think the worse of you. Perhaps everyone is just intoxicated after a long day's work and having one glass too many but isn't that the point?