I know its not the best picture of chopsticks but the main reason why I took this picture of the chopsticks that I used for my Panda Express yesterday was because I want to show how in Asia chopstick are used probably as common as I use a spoon, fork, and knife here in America. I honestly prefer using chopsticks whenever I can because it makes me feel a little more connected to Asian culture and not only that but it's actually kind of fun becasue once you start to learn how to use chopsticks the challenge of trying to get big portions of food in your mouth instead of little portions with chopsticks is very fun.

Yesterday I also went to Panda Express and the one I went to was located in the Student Union cafeteria in the University of Arizona campus and the food was delicious. Panda Express is known as fast food but instead of either burgers, pizza, fries, etc. they give out noodles like chow-mein which is shown in the picture and they have a good variety of main dishes. The main dish that you see in the picture is broccoli beef which at the moment is my favorite from there. The whole fast food part about Panda Express is very interesting because it makes me wonder just how different fast food places actually are in east Asia. I'm also very interested in how the food taste because to me food from Asia usually looks amazing.

Yesterday I was drinking one of these green tea bottle and it made me think on how different such products are displayed in terms of region. This is known as Oi-Ocha and in Japan its referred to as Japan's number one green brand. Oi-Ocha to me taste better when it is cold as it does contain a pretty strong flavor that some people don't like because I gave some to a few relatives and I thought they would like it because they drink almost dark coffee but it turned out that the flavor just didn't do it for them.

This picture shows the majestic structure of the Kinkakuji Temple in all of its gold. (I don't own the picture)  

In many places no matter where you are born the young one usually is put in some type of way of believing and by that I mean that the young one joins a religion. Religion in society is a very big thing, however, depending where you are from also depends on how strict the religion is taken. The Kinkakuji temple shows how deeply the faith of Buddhism was in Japan. The temple is made out of real gold and that represents to me just how devoted some people where to their religion and in a way that shows true beauty between people and faith.

This picture shows the beauty of the Cherry Blossom trees in Japan. (I don't own this picture)

When I thought of what I wanted to express when it came to visualizing Asian arts I remember how in Japan a lot of their art works not only shows the beauty of Japanese land but the beauty of the Cherry Blossom Trees are expressed to a great deal. The Cherry Blossom Trees, also known as Sakura Trees in Japan, express themselves in a way that makes the person who looks at them very calming. I believe that because of there different colors like pink and white and due to the fact that in times of high wind when the petals are in the air it just makes things more beautiful.