[Columbine]

I usually do quite well; I guess before I'm really craving something English, about a month. Depends on how well everything else is going. I eat a lot of asian food as a matter of course anyway, so the 'change' doesn't bother me. I guess I used to make things like risotto and roast chicken once or twice a month and go for pasta when I was feeling too lazy to do anything more adventurous. It took me a much longer time, about 6 months or so, before I really hit the cravings for a bottle of decent wine and some non-plastic cheese. Oh and the lack of proper sausages makes me sad.

Tea however, is a different story. I think I got about a week before I was e-mailing home asking for proper tea because all I could find was Lipton's yellow label *blech blech ptooey!*, or 10 Twinings tea bags for something ridiculous like 400 yen D: Definitely something I will take with me if I go out to Japan again.