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In 2016–2017, I spent 4 months living and working in Japan. The majority of my time was spent in Niseko, a resort town on the island of Hokkaido. In that time, I skied some of the best snow of my life, made some lifelong friends, and ate some pretty incredible Japanese food. I worked at a small local bar called Bar Barunba. It is a tiny little bar tucked away in what used to be an old parking garage. You have to duck to get into the doorway, and the place can fit 30 to 40 people max. My job at the bar mostly consisted of making ice cubes by hand with an ice pick. That's right, we made ice cubes for every drink by hand. You would start with a solid 2-foot by 2-foot block of ice and half it u...View all