Pizza Pizza Pizza

YEAH! my next step was Hiroshima ... well, not exactly Hiroshima city but its prefecture Shobara, a town in the hills with an altitude of 300 meters from sea level ... may be l had to balance the trip l was doing, may be l had to pass different phases of the odissey and l mean since l started to travel by leaving the big city ... sorry ... the biggest in all world! with its 34 million and + of peoples (included me) in TYO alone!!! can u believe it? l just discovered it! amazing ... but anyway what l was saying? AH so, leaving TYO to stay in a valley towns and thats means NARA & OSAKA & KYOTO & ARASHIYAMA & Co., then on a small hill facing the sea and thats the area of KOBE then in the south staying in the inland samurai town OBI and then on the seaside NANGO and the wild & beautiful YAKUSHIMA's forest and mountain and now moving in the hills ... to meet pizza peoples!
l left Nango after the sunrise u saw in the previous post and traveled the whole day till 10 PM and Vatya & Nartana had to come to pick me up at the last station 'cos there were no more trains to reach to Shobara .... and so l met for the first time this couple and we liked each other immediately! And the very next day they had to make pizza to sell in a festival that was happening in that town ... and l wanted to be present in that event 'cos the way they were making pizza and selling was really unique!!! not even in ltaly l ever saw this kind of business ... not in this way. OK lets show off what l mean ...

... yeah thats right! thats the shop ... and l helped them to set it up, it was in the ground of a school and the festival was about a town festival ... the name of the shop is "THE OVEN PIZZA 'S KOKOPELI" (it is the japanese pronunciation of KOKOPELLI) ... and on the left side, where u read coca cola, was another shop and it was selling drinking, mostly liquor shakes .... funny things is that although we were also selling drink (pineapple juice only) peoples were asking the juice to the drinking shop LOL ... and a little note about the oven pizza, Nartana made it ... from scratch, from an idea to making a design and to build it! it is beautifully managed and it does very easy 400 degree and thats very good to cook the pizza decently ... but suck lot of gas for making just a pizza a time ... anyway l liked very much the idea to sell pizza in this way and when he introduced the "shop" 2 yrs ago` in the town, made such a new impact that he went even in the newspaper!

yeah thats the oven in the middle of them and there is even the cover so that u can open an put the pizza's cut ... l mean he was selling 1 full pizza and also 1/4 of it, and so when there were spared cut he would then put inside from the top of the oven to make it warm before selling it, interesting uh?! l really liked how they were organized that it made me feel to do it in TYO and l'll do it some day!!! (thats why l'm practicing making pizza once a week here in my home ;)
And now enjoy the action!



it was a beautiful experience ... l'm grateful to them that allowed me to participate in the shop and the amazing thing was, it was the first time he was selling in his own festival's town, so he didn't make lots of pizzas dough, so in the morning he made few kilos and the previous day he made already ready-made pizza's base and kept under freeze in case the fresh ones is finished and so he brought only 50 pizzas in total (it was a small town) and the queue that formed!!! amazing!!!
it was selling so fast and peoples liked it very much!!! hehe ... in the beginning there was a boy that was passing back 'n' forth in front of the shop not knowing what was really going on ... l provoked him! l said YO, this is good pizza ... u gotta stop and try it.
And he escaped .... towards the end he decided (may be after he saw that everybody was buying it) to try it and l pretended to not look at him till when from my back l felt a TIP TIP on my shoulder and it was him with a big smile and with the GOOD thumb sign! l gave him a 5, ... LOL.
very nice .... and look at the proud Nartana!

Do u see the board on the left? do u know what it says? URIKIREMASHITA, GOMENNASAI. (SORRY, SOLD OUT!!!!) and still people were coming to ask it!
Actually a couple of guys, and looked like yakuza guys, asked him to participate at the next town's festival ... and he asked me to help him (actually he wanted me to stay the full month!) and l would have loved but ... later later, ciao.