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Obligatory omiyage

Of course, being back in Japan, I am pretty well obliged to bring the people in the office something by way of omiyage—something small and edible and somehow representative of where I’d gone to.

Since I’d gone to Canada, the obvious candidate is maple cookies. However, cookies in Canada aren’t packaged quite like cookies in Japan are—instead of having each cookie individually wrapped in its own sterile wrapper, it was just a bunch of cookies in a tray in a box.

So when I gave the packages of cookies to the admin assistants, this happened:

One cookie in a tiny box

The admin assistant made tiny little boxes, one for each cookie, for everyone in the entire department.

Mon Jul 12 15:37:00 +0900 2010
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Saaaa, omiyage origami…

By nojay at Tue Jul 13 00:36:15 +0900 2010

Hehehe, Yay Japan. =)

By nessachan at Tue Jul 13 00:36:15 +0900 2010

I shouldn’t be surprised that the box is made exactly to the cookie’s specs, right? I have this adorable narrative in my head that the admin was properly horrified that you brought cookies with uncivilized packaging and set about to Make Things Right For Your Honor.

By lixie at Tue Jul 13 00:36:15 +0900 2010

I hope it’s something along the lines of the admin assistants just having a bit of time on their hands, and deciding to make boxes that were exactly the right size.

I seem to remember that at some point, someone else brought along similarly-unpackaged cookies, and they were served on paper napkins rather than carefully-constructed individual boxes. I guess it’s sweet that they’re that concerned about my honor though.

By dagbrown at Tue Jul 13 00:36:15 +0900 2010

That’s awesome =)

By origamilady at Wed Jul 14 00:36:13 +0900 2010

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