...with my life....

Yesterday, Emiko took us to a Japanese restaurant for the second time. Non-coincidentally, it was one of my two favorite meals since I've been here. She has such good food judgment that I would, as Nicole says, trust her with my life.

This was the best shabu shabu I have ever had - and it was all you can eat! We started with this many trays of raw beef and pork:


Then we re-ordered about 4 or 5 more times. We cooked everything in the boiling broth at our table and made some interesting mixtures.

Another great part about this meal was that it was all you can drink. The Japanese really mean all you can drink when they say it. Every drink on the menu was included for 90 minutes. So I had the best plum wine, sake (hot and cold), beer (which I'm REALLY liking here in Japan), Cow Piss (yes, it's cow piss. They call it kalpisu or karupissu), cassis and soda, and cowpiss and cassis. This is my new favorite drink, ever! See a picture of me and nicole enjoying our new best beverage.