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Another baseball eatery! Whee!
Sometimes I am not sure why Pau puts up with me, but I'm glad that he does, he's a great friend.
Tonight after work I went down to Sengawa and met up with him and he took me to the OKONOMIYAKI RESTAURANT OF DOOOOOOOOOOOM! Okay, not really, it was a Hiroshima-yaki place and it was filled with baseball autographs and photos. After waiting for a table for a bit and walking around, we ended up at a table where on the wall above us were autograph boards from Ryota Arai (Chunichi) and Yuuki Kume (Softbank), and pictures of the Meiji and Komazawa baseball teams from relatively recent years. It was pretty crazy. The owner is apparently a big Hiroshima Carp fan and the game on TV was the Carp-Giants, in which the Giants imploded and the Carp won, so it was kinda fun to watch the last inning or two there.
We had Hiroshima-yaki, and appetizers called "Nishi-san". Pau explained that, basically, Nishi was a customer there who suggested this particular combination of fried stuff in crepes, and so ever since then it's been on the menu with his name. It was pretty good. It was all good in general.
Before leaving, Pau suggested I go look at some of the other photos and stuff in the corner. So I did, and I come back like "THAT'S KENSHIN! OMG!" Because one of the photos is a big one of Kenshin Kawakami on the mound at Jingu as a student at Meiji. It's so cool.
Speaking of Meiji, OMFG they beat Waseda today -- I think it was Waseda's first loss on the year. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go down to Jingu tomorrow afternoon and try to catch the rematch, just so I can catch some college ball this season. (I don't think I'll get up to get there by 11am to see all of the Keio-Hosei match though I might catch the end.)
And speaking of eating too much food... in addition to being stuffed with Hiroshima-yaki I am also stuffed with sweets. One of my students who hasn't been around for many weeks came in today and brought me a big box from the bakery... he said it was in thanks for my excellent recommendation of Ray's Boat House, and in apology for being gone so long. Part of where the hell he's been was on a business trip to America, and before he left, he told me he'd be in Seattle and asked if I knew a nice seafood place to go to dinner with some clients, so I told him to go to Ray's. Apparently his business group managed to get a nice window table at Ray's and see the sunset and eat excellent food and he made a good business deal :) The box from the bakery had three cream puffs and two eclairs, all of which have to be refridgerated AND eaten sometime this weekend. (I ate one creampuff and one eclair when I came home. Couldn't resist.) So uh... yeah, good thing I'll be playing volleyball tomorrow hopefully...
As for the rest of Friday/Saturday, it was all work-like and stuff. I folded cranes for Morino because he is hurt :( Also I went to Daiso and got some supplies to make Fighters cheering stuff. I am uber-dork! Wheeee!
(Today my Headways guys seriously asked me to explain the difference between "geek", "nerd", "dork", "freak", etc. One of them has read Marinerds so he was saying how "I can't tell what the right English word is for otaku...")
Tonight after work I went down to Sengawa and met up with him and he took me to the OKONOMIYAKI RESTAURANT OF DOOOOOOOOOOOM! Okay, not really, it was a Hiroshima-yaki place and it was filled with baseball autographs and photos. After waiting for a table for a bit and walking around, we ended up at a table where on the wall above us were autograph boards from Ryota Arai (Chunichi) and Yuuki Kume (Softbank), and pictures of the Meiji and Komazawa baseball teams from relatively recent years. It was pretty crazy. The owner is apparently a big Hiroshima Carp fan and the game on TV was the Carp-Giants, in which the Giants imploded and the Carp won, so it was kinda fun to watch the last inning or two there.
We had Hiroshima-yaki, and appetizers called "Nishi-san". Pau explained that, basically, Nishi was a customer there who suggested this particular combination of fried stuff in crepes, and so ever since then it's been on the menu with his name. It was pretty good. It was all good in general.
Before leaving, Pau suggested I go look at some of the other photos and stuff in the corner. So I did, and I come back like "THAT'S KENSHIN! OMG!" Because one of the photos is a big one of Kenshin Kawakami on the mound at Jingu as a student at Meiji. It's so cool.
Speaking of Meiji, OMFG they beat Waseda today -- I think it was Waseda's first loss on the year. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go down to Jingu tomorrow afternoon and try to catch the rematch, just so I can catch some college ball this season. (I don't think I'll get up to get there by 11am to see all of the Keio-Hosei match though I might catch the end.)
And speaking of eating too much food... in addition to being stuffed with Hiroshima-yaki I am also stuffed with sweets. One of my students who hasn't been around for many weeks came in today and brought me a big box from the bakery... he said it was in thanks for my excellent recommendation of Ray's Boat House, and in apology for being gone so long. Part of where the hell he's been was on a business trip to America, and before he left, he told me he'd be in Seattle and asked if I knew a nice seafood place to go to dinner with some clients, so I told him to go to Ray's. Apparently his business group managed to get a nice window table at Ray's and see the sunset and eat excellent food and he made a good business deal :) The box from the bakery had three cream puffs and two eclairs, all of which have to be refridgerated AND eaten sometime this weekend. (I ate one creampuff and one eclair when I came home. Couldn't resist.) So uh... yeah, good thing I'll be playing volleyball tomorrow hopefully...
As for the rest of Friday/Saturday, it was all work-like and stuff. I folded cranes for Morino because he is hurt :( Also I went to Daiso and got some supplies to make Fighters cheering stuff. I am uber-dork! Wheeee!
(Today my Headways guys seriously asked me to explain the difference between "geek", "nerd", "dork", "freak", etc. One of them has read Marinerds so he was saying how "I can't tell what the right English word is for otaku...")
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I too am curious how you explained it.
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But then again, maybe you don't want to confuse 'em *that* much.