Tokyo - food

At a Korean BBQ with the TypePad team. Tons of meat..which I don't eat much of so even a few bites felt heavy and solid, although delicious. We were supposed to have live squid, but they were out of it. Instead, I got to point out to Michael that he was eating stomach lining of a cow, nice and crunchy, just as he was chewing. Sorry...should have waited on that.

One evening, we had a company dinner together that was sushi. We joked around about letting folks know that everyday there's free sushi in the SAKK office!

The last night I was in Tokyo, I met up with Ichiro, a current great colleague, and Daiji, an old colleague who was central in bringing Movable Type to Japan long ago [long ago meaning like 4 years, but in internet time, it's a long time]. He is working at another company now, and has a 3 year old at home. Nevertheless, he came out to have dinner with me! I was so honored! He actually paid for all of us (Elida was with us too), and I'm still amazed at such wonderful relationships I manage to have. As always, I enjoyed Ichiro's breadth of knowledge, and Daiji's too. We ended up talking about pretty large philosophical questions. Oh, and the place we went was a "hidden" place with no sign. It specialized in a list of top notch rice and wonderful dishes and sake to go with the rice (vs. rice going with the dishes).

Here is a "honey bar"

Every time before I get on the Narita Express to the airport, I wander around the basement of Sogo Deptartment store, carefully choosing my lunch. So many choices!