Last lunch in Tokyo

Last lunch in Tokyo

Today is my last day in Tokyo.  I am very sad about it.  I have met some wonderful people who are polite, extremely thoughtful and care about each other as well as what they do.  

Yanagi-san and I went for a sushi lunch.  Those who know me well know that fish is not my favourite thing.  In fact, only over the last year or so, I have started eating fish and the odd prawn.  If I hadn’t, I would have lost some weight whilst diving in the Maldives!  So, sushi is a very difficult thing for me… but I was determined to, especially seeing as Yanagi-san has taken great care for a month to take me for lunch at places where I can eat something other than fish.

So, lunch today…

We entered the restaurant, at the door there is an ornamental bucket filled with small, live crabs.  On going through you can see the Sushi chefs preparing the fish.  It’s very skilled job and takes many years to accomplish.  Yanagi-san informs me that many kinds of rice and preparations are used, the way the fish is cut, the salt, sugar used in the rice.

Lunch consisted of, raw squid leg, raw octopus leg, a prawn, several different cuts of raw tuna, raw salmon, raw yellow-fin and a seaweed basket of some sort of raw tuna mash.  I tried my best and ate most of it ;-)

I’ll post a photo of the crabs when Yanagi-san sends it to me.