After the office today I met Chie in Naka-meguro. From there we walked to the Jojoen yaki-niku restaurant not far from the Konami Sports. We were celebrating Chie’s birthday and she decided to have yaki-niku at Jojoen.

And what a good choice it was. The food was great. The meat almost melting in the mouth. And garlic cooked in oil so that it was crispy on the outside and soft and sweet on the inside. It was really tasty. But tomorrow people at the office will probably take a detaour rather that come near any of us.

   

It was 2 months since we last met with Club Leo. So it was about time when we met today in Shinagawa to watch the Get Smart movie at the Shinagawa Prince Cinema. It was a quite funny movie about an analyst becoming a secret agent. We laughed a lot.

And continued to laugh during the whole evening. At Uokin we had something to eat between our laugh attacks. Mainly fish of different sort. Sashimi: iwashi, shima-saba, umazora, tako, kaki, and kujira to mention a few. We also had tai boiled in sweet soya souce.

   

Although Chie and I did not eat any kujira. Not because I don’t like it. I’ve tried it once just to try it and it tastes quite good but it is an endangered species so I really don’t want to eat because of that. Yes, it is whale. And unfortunately it was included in the set menu of sashimi that we ordered.You can see it to the right in a glass bowl.

It is funny though with the kanji for whale/kujira (鯨). It is the combination of fish (é­š) and capital (京), the latter the same as the last kanji in Tokyo (東京 = east capital). So the capital of fish is the whale… How wrong they were! It’s not a fish it’s a mammal.

Once we finished out dinner we continued by foot to Pescaderia in Ginza. We wanted to end the evening with something sweet. Chie had grappa, cheese and caramell and milke tea ice cream. I had gato chocolate cake and tea. Ryo-san had white wine and tiramisu. Non-san had coffee and apple pie with vanilla ice.

And then Ryo-san spent the rest of the evening in the bathroom. She is on a wait loosing program currently and have lost 22 kg since she started. Probably being on the weight loss diagram and not beeing familiar with a body 22 kg lighter made the alcohol hit her a little bit too hard. Fortunately she got well before we had to leave.

After work I went to Yorakucho station with the Yamanote-sen to meet Chie. Actually, we met at a crossing just outside of the Estnation close to Bic Camera. From there we walked to the Hello Kitty store to have short look before continuing almost all the way to Shimbashi station before finding the Koimo restaurant.

Okoshi-san and Ito-san were already waiting for us when we arrived. After a while Ishikawa-san joined us. We talked, ate, and had a very fun time before we had to return home.

   

On our way to the Shimbashi station some old Japanese gentleman joined us. His legs were a bit unsteady (probably too much sake in one of them). He started talking to us and once he heard that I was from Sweden he started to ramble on about Gustaf Adolf and how bad it was that he was dead. I am not a master of history but I think that particular Swedish king has been dead for quite a while.