Green is for Wasabi

Well, I have put this off enough, so I will write it.

I have passed the exam. ^^ But I am sleepy all the time and so much to do, so I... didn't write. Well, now I do, and I'll tell about the celebration we had with my friend yesterday.

There is a Japanese restaurant I wanted to try now for a long time, so we went there to celebrate me passing the exam. The restaurant was ok. The look was pretty, the waitresses... well, I can only describe my problem, as it has disappeared from English a while ago, so... they were theeing us. (Similar to being on a first name basis with someone - someone you are *close* with, but without them knowing your name. So... close and personal way of talking.) Well, this really didn't sit well with me, because it wasn't a cheap restaurant. Not to mention that western music was playing in the background. (Don't misunderstand me, I love Sting! But... this was a traditionally Japanese restaurant, darnit.)
So, we sit down, order drinks, and order food, and... my first obstacle came when I couldn't snap my chopsticks to separate them in two. Well, with a lot of help I did. Then came the second obstacle... my chopstick-holding was a bit rusty... and more or less nonexistent. But I got used to it rather quick.
Well, that aside, we ordered sushi. On a rectangular plate we got 5 sushi (one in the middle and 4 on each corner), and 4 maki (on each side, in between 2 corner sushis. We got 2 cucumber and 2 radish makis, so we exchanged them with my friend, because she hates cucumbers, and I hate radish.
There were some cookie thingies placed on the side, which I tried, and they were similar in taste and look to a Hungarian delicacy, so we liked it. The only down was that the sushi had no real taste. Or maybe because I was advised to eat some spicy ginger between some sushi, the taste might have been lost, but I pretty much doubt that.
Anyway, we ate tuna, octopus, crab and... something else which I don't remember, and one of the last ones were the middle ones. Now, my friend didn't like caviar, so she gave me hers. And I decided to try one befor the crab. It was fairly big, and the caviar had a blazing green color. Now I have seen some other colors like red, black and pale yellow, but green never. But why couldn't they have green, so I didn't stop to think...
So I chomp it down, start to chew and... there comes the hot paprika/chilli effect. My eyes become saucer-sized, they water, my face becomes red (my friend laughed at me!) and then I swallow and drink half my drink. I kid you not, it burned my nose. Well, I should have known it was seasoned with wasabi. They had the same color. When I recovered, I ate some cookies, the red ones, because I tried them first. Then I have a strange fascination with green, so I try it, and wham, there is the same taste... Wasabi again. At least it had less wasabi in it and actually tasted pleasant.
Well, then came crab and the rest, and at the end, I was faced with yet another wasabi-tinted caviar. I decided to be brave about it, so I started chewing right away before my body realizes what it is, but the effect was actually worse. So I drank the other half of my drink. But it was pleasant.
After that I ordered 2 mochi boxes for takeout, one which we started eating once we got out. Well, i would have liked any other filling, but this... Dunno what it actually is. Sweet, kinda like cocoa. Still, dunno. But I like mochi, so it was fine.

Well, that's for now. I'm tired.