Role Play Room

[Auir]

(How does one learn how to balance when the thing they're standing on won't let them be unbalanced? Isn't muscle memory developed through countless series of overcompensations?)

Meanwhile Skuld watched proudly from the shore.

[paladin313]

(I was thinking, if he started to fall one way, he'd feel it, start to compensate, but the wind would then push him up as he did, teaching him.  It is more to build his confidence.)

[Auir]

(But when the wind disappears? Wouldn't he be used to surfing with the wind helping him?)

Skuld went looking for a stand to buy him a drink as a reward.

[paladin313]

(Like I said, the wind began to back off the more he began to get it.  In other words, it helped, but did not do it for him entirely.  The more control he had, the less the wind aided him to where he was doing it all by himself.)

[Auir]

(So training wheels that causes one to tip.)

Skuld ordered two coconut juices and brought them back with her.

[paladin313]

(I guess--just set off the ground enough to where you have to balance, but not so far up that it lets you fall until you don't even rely on them anymore.)

As she went back, there was a stand selling something called shave ice.

[Auir]

"Oh, they have shaved ice here? I wonder if they have red bean." she said as she made her way to it.

[paladin313]

The local overheard her excitement, and he kindly corrected her and said, "We call it shave ice here, and it is the best when it comes from the home of it!  What can I get you today?"

[Auir]

"The home? But shaved ice was brought here from Japan." she said.

[paladin313]

"Well, yes and no," he said, "Shaved ice is different from shave ice.  If it came from Japan, we perfected and reinvented it.  Shaved ice still has chunks in it.  Watch what we do."
     He did a sample for her, and the shave ice he was making was like a fine powder snow.  He spread pineapple on it and it all instantly absorbed into the shave ice, and he was thus able to add more flavor.  He handed the sample to her and said, "This way, you don't even need a straw!"

(There is a difference.  I looked it up.  Shaved Ice came from Japan while Shave Ice is considered strictly Hawaiian.)

[Auir]

(Snow cones have ice chunks in them. Shaved ice was so revolutionary because it was so finely ground. Even the traditional flavors are Japanese. To say shave ice is strictly Hawaiian is like saying hot dogs aren't frankfurts.)

"Why would you eat it with a straw?" she frowned.

[Trace Carter]

"to get the flavor from the bottom," said a disguised Z as he walked up, "one rainbow shave ice please."

[Auir]

"It sinks to the bottom? What are you using? The bottom is azuki beans isn't it?"

[Trace Carter]

Z looked at her funny, "it's ground ice with syrup and toppings.  Why would there be azuki beans on the bottom?"

[Auir]

"Because that's what shave ice is. Shaved, not ground ice topped with fruit, drizzled with condensed milk with azuki beans on the bottom. Properly made shave ice shouldn't have juice pooling at the bottom at all."