Two More days in Japan

Two more days in Tokyo will provide more opportunities to experience the culture and taste the cuisine.

The lunch meal provided through work, were absolutely awful. Mystery meat and yellow mayonnaise with a horse radish taste on white bread and no crust. So a few of us stepped out to see what we could find. We found an Italian restaurant on the second floor of a building down the street. We went inside and they did not speak English and we did not speak Japanese, so it all worked out. We had a small (very small) salad about three bites worth. The main course was Fettuccine with cauliflower and shrimp in a white cheese sauce.

We were more adventuresome with dinner. We headed up town to a restaurant suggested by a co worker who lived in Tokyo. We arrived only to be told that it would be an hour wait, because we didn’t have reservations. They suggested we wait in their bar. The bar was down the street and we needed a secret code to get in, so we were escorted to the bar where the Hostess put in the secret code and a mirrored wall slid open to reveal a dimly lit multi-level bar. Very James Bond looking. We had a few drinks and noticed there were only a few men in the bar and only one woman with an older gentlemen. After further discussion we decided we were in a Japanese dating bar. The restaurant called when our table was ready, so we walked over to eat.

Up examination of the menu we discovered we were eating in a French restaurant. Too funny, because in a couple of days we will be in France, so we decided we will find a Japanese restaurant, while we are in Paris.

The food was very good and the waiter suggested a Tequila bar further up the street for après dinner drinks. He told us to ask for a guy name Farrie and he would take care of us. I bet he would, was the joke about Farrie.

Why not, so we walked further down the street, past the AMPM store, past the Clover bar, turn down the street and enter the doorway that looks very run down and in need of repair. The waiter assured us the look of disrepair was a design point, to represent the conditions in Mexico. It turned out that Farrie had broken his foot and was not working, however we had good service. We tried a few Blue Agaves Tequilas and decided it was time to call it a night.

I was taken to lunch by one of the Japanese team. We walked in to small restaurant where we had Eel in a sweet sauce. We sat at a low table with a cut out under the table, so that we could extend our legs. It was a very good meal. The meal was served over rice followed by Japanese pickles.

That night we went to a Tempura restaurant for dinner. We had prawns, white fish, scallops, eel and some small bean bits. The fish was very fresh and the batter was very light. It was an excellent meal. The meal was followed by fresh melon and crackers.

Through all of these culinary adventures my BG was mostly normal. I thought the time change would have a bigger impact, but I didn’t have to many highs or lows. I had put in a new sensor when I arrive in Japan and I expected to get a full six days out of the sensor. It was extremely convenient to have the CGM. I didn’t have to do a finger stick before, after or in between meal. All I had to do was to look at the CGM and push the ESC button to see where my BG was sitting.