There was another Christmas party at work today – this time the project party. It was held at a Japanese restaurant in Ohsaki Gate City – one of those places I’ve been meaning to go but never quite made it to. Its another shopping/restaurant/office combo with high rise walkways from the station, you descend into an almost cathedral like space with painted mediterrainian scenes outside the fake windows.
I don’t think the place were ate was particularly happy about all these gaijins who didn’t understand the local food (how /are/ you supposed to eat tough beef with chopsticks?). Most of the food was fish based, which wasn’t exactly to my taste, but my boss did a bit of menu interpretation and ordered me some beef on a stick. The vegetarians in our party were less fortunate, with a choice of only ‘baked potato with cheese’. Which wasn’t exactly what I had envisaged when it turned up, and seemed to contain cheese with a little too much character for some of those concerned.
The meal was rounded off with blueberry ice cream crepes, which, while they were all wrong, were actually alright too.
On the way back to the station I had to stop the guys while I took a picture of the Hello Kitty prison – looked like a bunch of Sanrio cuties had gotten themselves solitary confinement.
I also picked up a copy of “Vamp – violence, ecstacy and occult magazine”, which seems to have a similar premise to Bizarre back in the UK, but with more flesh. Oh well.
Arriving home to an Antifolk CD was nice, thank you venta! I’ve not listen to much of it yet but what I have heard I rather like, in a kind of ‘I knew there must be a genre into which the Violent Femmes fitted’ way.
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