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Local chef Christopher Gross just got back from a 12-day Japan trip that totaled more than $500,000.

Gross and his girfriend Jamiee Hormel went with the family and had a great time. They got there when the earthquake happened, but still got to have lavish dinners and were able to stay at the penisula hotel.

Chef gross says the best part if the trip was the people and and a bouus was the quake because he does not have to charge his iphone again. Due to the nucluar plant leak.

Check out photos from his trip below: