Tokyo Weekend the fun starts on Friday nite (I)

(the dinner place)

(Ika yakitori)

(the Jp Pizza, very tasty)

(The French bread w/ japanese curry filling)

man, I didn't get to the bed till 2am in the morning. I had lunch with Mori-san's sister, Shino, the girl works in Shanghai, speaks fluent Chinese. She brought some moon cake and goodies from Shanghai. A very sweet lady. Then it comes the dinner for Tobe-san's farewell. Man ppl can be really different outside the cubicles. Although I didn't understand most of the conversation, especially after most of them got drunk, but I enjoyed the night.

(The Nagoya style Unagi don, eat in 4 steps with 3 ways)

Woke up @9:30 and getting ready for the shopping trip with Chika-san & Ayano-san. 1st stop: Akihabara. Famous for the electronics. I was looking for a foot steamer for Dad, but didn't get much luck. But the lunch @Una Syo was very satisfying.

Nagoya style: Eat Unagi don eat in 4 steps.

1st, try a bowl with Rice with eel and adding more unagi sauce.

2nd, then another bowl with rice, eel, adding dry sweed, wasabi, & hua jiao (spicy)

3rd, 3rd bowl with 2nd step and add udon soup.

4th, continue to finish the rest of the don, with your favor eating style.

After lunch we continue the shopping trip and hit Ueno. @Ueno, there are many discount stores for everything. But we hit Takeya first for cosmetics. Found great deals on Utena mask. I bought 20 boxes for the girls @work. (But I might change my mind, maybe I'm saving more boxes for myself) Got whole year supply of mascaras, makeup, pair of Cimarron jeans. Then we went for the local snacks & sweets. I'm not sure if everything I bough is going to taste good, I'm they sure look good. very cute wrappings. I don't remember if I have bought other stuff, but there were 3 big bags, and they are heavy.

We then took the train to Asakusa. There are streets full with Kitchen supplies. very cute dishes and tools. Just browsing thorough the shop, it's making me want to get a house and decorate my kitchen & dinning room with these unique designers of tools. Oh, the sushi chief knigh. They're Expensive! but a good blade can be use for years & years, till the whole knight use out with little bit of the blade.

After whole day of walking, we headed to get dinner. It's a very traditional Japanese Style BBQ house. It has been open for many many decades and served Japanese pizza. The restaurant is very localish. Tatami without wholes under the table (I can only sit like a man), no air conditioner (instead electronic fan & paper fan)...anyway, it's very interesting. The way to make the Jp pizza is first cook the meat, then lay out the dour& top with mixed veggie & dry small shrimp, bake till it's ready. then add salt, peper, sweed, special sauce (looks like unagi sauce or katsui sauce). I think it's more like a pancake than pizza, but very tasty. Then we order the noodle, the waitress made it for us, it requires more skill to pull them all together and cook. Ouishi..The desert is a crepe like pancake with red bean paste. It's good with cup of ice Ooloug team. By the time we finish the meal, it was about 8:30. But on the way to Chika-san's apartment, when we pass by a Ika yakitori place, I could resist and stop by for a take out of 8 yakitories. Men, OOOOOuiishii.