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Eating things.

Club Leo at Pescaderia

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Chie and I met Non-san and Ryo-san outside the Picadilly movie theater at Seibu department store in Ginza at 3:45 pm today. They are Club Leo and I am kind of their member of honor or maybe a mascot. The club started a long time ago as a fan club to Leonardo DiCaprio. Though they are still fans of Leo it has grown into something more than just a Leo fan club. Friendship and monthly meeting with movie and dinner.

Today we saw Body of Lies, Leo’s latest movies about CIA agent and terrorism. It was a really good movie that I think had an undertone of chritisims of how USA is treating the so called terrorists.

After the movie we continued to Pescaderia in Ginza where we had a great dinner. And to complete a great evening we had a great desert. Or rather I had three great deserts. Apple pie with vanilla ice cream. And two cinamon ice creams. The cinamon ice cream was a special request from me a month ago, when Club Leo went to Pescaderia after having dinner together at another place. We were quite surprised that the chef had remembered our request.

Dinner at Yasaka

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“Dagen före doppardagen” – they day before the dipping day, if translated straight to English from Swedish. The meaning is that it is the day before the Christmas evening. Old tradition in Sweden is to use buljong from cooking the ham to dip perhaps dry bred in and eat, hence Christmas eve became the long awaited “dipping day” when old dry bread became a little bit easier to eat.

Fortunately we do not need to rely on buljong from cooking the ham to enjoy our bread or food today. We went to Yasaka instead. With Martin and his friend Anders. Martin works at Sony Ericsson and Anders was visiting from Sweden over Christmas and New Year.

We had a good time eating and talking. I think that Martin and Anders enjoyed the food and atmosphere at Yasaka almost as much as we do.

Johan, Chie, Martin and Anders at Yasaka

Konami Sports at Yasaka

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After the work today I went to Yasaka to have dinner with Chie and two of her friends from Konami Sports (Shibayama-san and Furuya-san). After a while Mina-sensei joined us as well. We ate and talked for a few hours and had a great time. Until it was time to go back home. Tomorrow was another day.

Shibayama-san and Chie at Yasaka    Chie and Mina-sensei at Yasaka

Dinner at En on the 42nd Floor

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It’s Friday again and I just packed all my stuff at the office. We are moving to a new floor during the weekend. So today we had to be out of the office by 6 pm. That was perfect for me. I finished packing by 5:30 pm and took the Yamanote-sen to Yurakucho where I met Chie at the Seibu department store.

We walked to Shiodome City Tower where we were having dinner with some ex-collegues of Chie. We went in to an elevator with only 3 buttons, 1, 41, 42. The restaurant we had reserved table at was on the 42nd floor.

En at 42nd floor

Unfortunately we had not a table with a view. But we could sneak a peek after the dinner. Which was really good. We had sashimi. Spare ribs. Shabu-shabu. And many other dishes. And we had a fun time… Again.

Sashimi    Wasabi
Grilled chicken    Party of 5

After dinner we walked down to the 41st floor where they had a Mickey Mouse party. I think. There was a guy who had a Mickey Mouse over his breast pocket. Probably some Christmas party of some big company. From the 41st floor we took the elevator down. Again our ears were popping, just as they did on the way up. You would think it would take a while to travel 42 floors but I believe that we were in the elevator less than a minute. So I guess the elevator is quite fast.

Shiodome City Tower

Cooking Class at Tokyo Gas

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A really busy day today. We went to Shinjuku to attend a cooking class arranged by Tokyo Gas. This is Chie’s and my 3rd cooking class together. They are quite fun. Usually it is CHie, me and about 30 women. Most of them are very impressed that I can cut, for instance, a cucomber without chopping of my fingers. Under such circomstances it is easy to impress.

Chie at the cooking class    Me at the cooking class
Cooking sensei    Me cleaning up

We cooked a Christmas dinner today. Green salad, chicken cream stew pie, Belgian clam soup, caramelized apple with vanilla ice cream. We were 6 people in our cooking group including Chie and me. And I can honestly say that I was not the worst at cooking in the group. The apples were the best, even though a pinch of cinamon would have made all the difference.

Caramelized apples with vanilla ice cream

After the cooking class Chie and I continued to a hotel nearby. Isetan department store had a family sales there. I bought some underwear for half price or so. And a pair of warm socks.

We continued to Isetan department store in Shinjuku. Zig-zagging between all the people. It was crazy. We got tired just because of all the people. And then we had to walk for a few hours too. Between all the places we visited.

At 8 we were arriving in Ebisu and we were just too tired to cook. So we went to Red Pepper instead. We had Ceasar salad, dry tomatoes, olives in herbs and olive oil, tuna carspacio, lasanga, and grilled pork. We finished with pear sorbet, chestnut ice cream, and a chocolate cake. Yummy!