Friday, September 03, 2004
Friday, and high class bird
Mere words cannot express my love for Friday. The knowledge that tomorrow and the day after it I will be able to sleep in. Brilliantly justifying plans to go out and get sloshed. If only we could drink at work, I would already be well on my way there.
Tonight should be an interesting one, it is my friend Anne's birthday and we are going out for dinner in Shibuya. To a yakitori place, an upscale yakitori place. Yakitori is essentially grilled bird on a skewer, but the places that serve it serve numerous other skewered things and even some small dishes that are skewer free. There is a great little yakitori restaurant near my station. It is not upscale. You could probably even refer to it as 'a dive'. There is seating for about a dozen and it is dirt cheap, but the food is great and the people there make it an enjoyable place to be.
For me the idea of upscale yakitori is somewhat of an oxymoron. It is perhaps due to my many experiences of getting drunk in seedy little yakitori bars all over Japan, but I am looking forward to tonight's culinary experience. Albeit with a little trepidation.
A full report will follow.... when I get around to it.
Tonight should be an interesting one, it is my friend Anne's birthday and we are going out for dinner in Shibuya. To a yakitori place, an upscale yakitori place. Yakitori is essentially grilled bird on a skewer, but the places that serve it serve numerous other skewered things and even some small dishes that are skewer free. There is a great little yakitori restaurant near my station. It is not upscale. You could probably even refer to it as 'a dive'. There is seating for about a dozen and it is dirt cheap, but the food is great and the people there make it an enjoyable place to be.
For me the idea of upscale yakitori is somewhat of an oxymoron. It is perhaps due to my many experiences of getting drunk in seedy little yakitori bars all over Japan, but I am looking forward to tonight's culinary experience. Albeit with a little trepidation.
A full report will follow.... when I get around to it.
# posted by Nils @ 11:45 AM 
