My friend from Canada told me a while ago she was sending me a care package and asked if there was anything I wanted. Back home I used to make the tasty Canadian cuisine of poutine - french fries, cheese and gravy - on a regular basis so I asked her to send over some gravy packets. After all my searching, I'm fairly certain they don't exist in Japan. Well, when I received the package a few weeks later there were at least eight different packets of all different types. Thanks Alyssa! I caught the flu this weekend and missed two days of snowboarding :( so I decided to treat myself to my first poutine in Japan. It was deeelicious!