Lauri - you sell yourself way too short. You had some great shots! What happened to your Li River pictures though? It seems like things jumped from Guilin to Hong Kong.

BTW, one small correction - in your Kyoto pictures, the picture that's labeled "fish with ?miso?" ... those are actually pickled vegetables. The big white slabs are radishes (daikon). The brown stuff you see on them is rice bran - this form of pickling is called "nuka-zuke".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukazuke

More information than you ever wanted to know about Japanese pickles.

Masaki