SWEAT!!

Perhaps foolishly, I woke up with an alarm at 5:30 despite my body allowing me to sleep longer, so I could meet Danny to ride the summerstreets event at 7am. We rode over the GWB and then towards Hoboken, stopping at Matsuwa Marketplace, a huge Japanese supermarket -- huge food court, and a shopping floor as big as a Wholefoods or Pathmark, except ALL Japanese stuff -- not pan-Asian, but JUST Japanese, pretty cool.

I picket up some machta (green tea powder), the secret ingredient to make green tea ice cream, and we had a power breakfast. The food, despite being premade out of a counter, was unassailably fresh and tasty, about a 1000 times better than the stuff you get out of the relatively common Korean bodegas downtown. And I tried "yPocari Sweat", which is basically the Japanese equivalent of Gatorade. If this stuff was a strange dayglo color and packed in a Gatorade bottle, I never would of known. It basically tasted like a flat Fresca -- the ingredients were pretty standard, except for the inclusion of MSG.


BREAKFAST: 6:30am, iced green tea, banana, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


AM SNACK: 9:45am, tuna rice triangle, pork miso don bowl, half a "pocari sweat", bite of donut, bite of red bean donut, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 3pm, Stouffer's frozen pizzas, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 8:30pm, pasta with garlic, oil and shrimp, 1bowl, hunger 4/5