Piles of Raw Meat And Big Pots Of Hot Water
The only thing I regret is that I didn't count HOW MANY trays of raw beef and pork our group of 11 hearty eaters went through last night at the shabu-shabu fest:
Yeah, so it was another evening of all-you-can-eat goodness with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
seishinbyou and Akudaikan and a whole bunch of DDR people. Of course, I don't play DDR anymore and haven't since my arch and knee troubles in 2003-2004, which makes it a little odd, but whatever. I went to get coffee with februaryfour beforehand and we did karaoke for an hour and a half, and then we met up with the gang (including her doubt72 who did not join us for teh singing) at the Akihabara Showa-dori exit, and found our way to a relatively dark alley with a hole-in-the-wall basement place with lots of shabu-shabu. Most of the crowd was foreign, but about half of the conversation was in Japanese anyway, as pretty much everyone lives here and is mostly more fluent than me. I sat next to a dude named Ethan who is from Portland and knows catbus and is now studying in Sapporo and went to a Fighters game last year, so I was talking to him a bit about that. I also tried to convince the guy sitting across from me that he should quit being a Six Sigma trainer and become an ALT instead as it's a lot less stressful. (The amusing part was when I asked what he did, I saw the look on his face of "Uh... how do I explain this to a girl", and I said "Look, I studied computer science, you don't need to dumb anything down for me" and he said "You ever heard of Six Sigma?" and I'm like "Uhh... I was a senior software engineer at GE for a few years...")
Anyway, I still have no desire to play DDR. But it was good to see Aaron again and give him chocolates which I think I technically still owed him from 2003 when DJ and I came here and we forgot to bring them to Muthos.
This is mostly so I can remember what the hell the place was that we went to, since I'll never be able to find it again on my own. On the other hand I think I prefer MoPara anyway. This place had some weird noodles that were like harusame but weren't. I already forgot what they were called, though. Either way, 3000 yen for all-you-can-eat and all-you-can-drink isn't too terrible, I suppose.
I got home at midnight and crashed. Everyone was seeing me yawn and thought I was drunk, but I was like "...no, I'm jet-lagged..." In some ways it'd be nice if I could stay at this routine of waking up at 6:30am every day, really.
Yeah, so it was another evening of all-you-can-eat goodness with
seishinbyou and Akudaikan and a whole bunch of DDR people. Of course, I don't play DDR anymore and haven't since my arch and knee troubles in 2003-2004, which makes it a little odd, but whatever. I went to get coffee with februaryfour beforehand and we did karaoke for an hour and a half, and then we met up with the gang (including her doubt72 who did not join us for teh singing) at the Akihabara Showa-dori exit, and found our way to a relatively dark alley with a hole-in-the-wall basement place with lots of shabu-shabu. Most of the crowd was foreign, but about half of the conversation was in Japanese anyway, as pretty much everyone lives here and is mostly more fluent than me. I sat next to a dude named Ethan who is from Portland and knows catbus and is now studying in Sapporo and went to a Fighters game last year, so I was talking to him a bit about that. I also tried to convince the guy sitting across from me that he should quit being a Six Sigma trainer and become an ALT instead as it's a lot less stressful. (The amusing part was when I asked what he did, I saw the look on his face of "Uh... how do I explain this to a girl", and I said "Look, I studied computer science, you don't need to dumb anything down for me" and he said "You ever heard of Six Sigma?" and I'm like "Uhh... I was a senior software engineer at GE for a few years...") Anyway, I still have no desire to play DDR. But it was good to see Aaron again and give him chocolates which I think I technically still owed him from 2003 when DJ and I came here and we forgot to bring them to Muthos.
This is mostly so I can remember what the hell the place was that we went to, since I'll never be able to find it again on my own. On the other hand I think I prefer MoPara anyway. This place had some weird noodles that were like harusame but weren't. I already forgot what they were called, though. Either way, 3000 yen for all-you-can-eat and all-you-can-drink isn't too terrible, I suppose.
I got home at midnight and crashed. Everyone was seeing me yawn and thought I was drunk, but I was like "...no, I'm jet-lagged..." In some ways it'd be nice if I could stay at this routine of waking up at 6:30am every day, really.
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I was wondering about all that too because he was saying on facebook that he had shabu shabu tabehodai/nomihodai.... :p
Yeah hopefully we'll get to be in the same country and meet up again! And I'm sorry to hear you failed at the JLPT, but hey ganbatte!
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Oh, there is another yakiniku event next weekend (Gut's Soul in Yoyogi), but Ethan has to fly back to Hokkaido to handle an emergency there. There will be more Japanese people next time, but right now I know very little other than what Akudaikan said last night.
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