{"id":273,"date":"2025-06-14T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/?p=273"},"modified":"2025-06-15T02:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T02:41:08","slug":"the-best-tempura-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/2025\/06\/14\/the-best-tempura-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3\u2026 The best tempura of my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-274\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4175-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4175-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4175-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4175-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4175-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_4175-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the Kyoto trip, I found myself along the shops in the Nishiki market. The shops had treats like spicy ice cream and wagyu sticks. Needless to say, walking through that street hungry was a bad idea. But alas, that is in fact what I did. So as I scanned the array of options for a snack, something caught my eye. It was crab tempura. I\u2019ve never seen anything other than vegetables as tempura so I thought \u201chmm I wonder if this will be good\u201d but I decided not to get it because what if something better was just around the corner?<\/p>\n<p>There were many options around the corner, but that crab tempura was stuck in my head. I guess that meant I had to try it! So I did, and it was amazing. The best tempura I\u2019ve ever had \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Kyoto trip, I found myself along the shops in the Nishiki market. The shops had treats like spicy ice cream and wagyu sticks. Needless to say, walking through that street hungry was a bad idea. But alas, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/2025\/06\/14\/the-best-tempura-of-my-life\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japan-summer-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}