Pathetically poor word choice on a food menu

Hire somebody to check the English...need I say more? It actually refers to (what Westerners usually refer to as) "chicken" skin. Specifying it's the cock's and not the hen's is not adding much value to any english speakers viewing the menu.

Late Night Food

The great thing about Tokyo is that everything stays open late - which helps when you are starving at 2 AM. This was at a bar in Ebisu. In the back you see 4 cheeseballs (deep fried hard like Falafel, with cheese and bits of meat inside). The rest are just two plates of aburi-toro - flame seared toro (Probably the kind that's endangered - bluefin).

Here you have your Wサウザン野菜バーガー, "Thousand Vegetable", (I think the thousand refers to the Thousand Island sauce, as opposed to the thousand types of veggies) Mos Burger:

Can somebody get Child Services on the phone?

Saturday night at Midas, a hiphop club in Roppongi (a party area in Tokyo). Besides the regular crowd of suspicious looking individuals, who do we see on the dance floor? A kid, probably 8 years old, dancing with his (I'm guessing) father! Kid's dressed up just like Daddy, with an over-size jersey and a sideways hat. Sure, just bring the kid for show-and-tell, or as cute bait for women...

Anyways, he's showing Daddy his dance moves 1-on-1, but after awhile gets tired and sits on the stage. Does Daddy take him home? No, of course not. He instead coaxes him off of the stage back into some more sets of Who Wants to be an Elementary Drop Out by going to Midas until 2AM on a Saturday night.

"This is Tokyo"

Annoying Travelers

Location: Limousine Bus, on way from Narita Airport into Tokyo.
Situation: Guy talking on cellphone in the bus, although no cell phones are allowed (clearly noted on the walls and announced with a multilingual recording.)

This was a bilingual Chinese guy who was apparently bringing a few friends or clients from the airport. They were laughing it up in (no offense) typical mainland Chinese levels of loudness in the bus, while everyone else is trying to sleep. This guy obviously knows the local culture (even if he doesn't "abide" by it), with respect to the general consideration given in public places to surrounding people, as far as noise goes. However, he talks on the cellphone while in the bus! One phone call's OK, if you keep it down... but multiple? I don't think so.

He did start to get up and go to the back of the bus for his last few calls and attempt to be quiet, but it's still audible, and quite annoying. Respect the rules! Embarassing to be Chinese...

Chinese restaurant without Chinese...

Japan is quite annoying in the way that no one speaks English. That might be...expected, but if you go to a well-known Chinese restaurant, based in Hong Kong, you would also expect that they would have somebody who actually spoke Cantonese or Mandarin.

Sweet Dynasty in Aoyama is such an example. It's been so long since I've had decent Cantonese food that I thought I'd try to ask them what else they served besides dessert. Unfortunately, they were so frightened when asked if they spoke English or Chinese. The reply was, "No, sorry we don't speak English or Chinese". What?...

Wake by Quake (Tokyo)

Another quake just hit, this one more mild than the previous two. I actually predicted this one, albeit using a very elementary method. Sunday, then Tuesday, now Thursday.

Tuesday's was the worst (for me), where the strength of it shook the water right out of my fishtank onto the ground. This was around 5:07AM Japan time

Today's was weak but enough to wake me up - 7:53AM Japan time.

No more, please...