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Hope Anderson's avatar

This brought back lovely memories of my childhood in Tokyo in the 60's, when the yaki imo man would herald his arrival by singing "Yaki imo, yaki imo!" through a megaphone. The cart he pulled had a charcoal brazier on it, and he would pull the sweet potatoes from the coals with tongs and wrap them in newspaper. They were our favorite treat, and hard to come by because we had find the money and then run down our long driveway to catch up to him. Toward the end of our time in Tokyo he started using a battery-powered megaphone, but otherwise nothing changed

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Chihiro's avatar

Such an evocative description of yaki imo in all of its iterations! I miss Japan so much.

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