Summer has gone passed and autumn is already here, a little cold sometimes rainy… I hope momiji will come before I leave.
But in the mean time I’m enjoying Tokyo’s inexhaustible wining and dining life! Meeting friends, talking, subjects swinging from a topic to another.
Out of the many diners and talks I have had this week there’s been some words that have had more impacts than others, on my top three I definitely liked the “don’t worry there is nothing wrong with you” I fear the ” I find that un-married girls are very up-tight about cheating. But once you get married it changes and actually most times it’s usually the girl that considers it.” I’ m undecided about the ” you don’t usually get married to your type”.
I guess we could talk about the collapse of the world economy… but that is just a grim reminder of the probable atrocious difficulties ahead of me to find a new job. But I’m too much of a fatalist to care anyway… “que sera sera”…
On Saturday I met up with the ladies, Melinda had us over for lunch and just like last time we abused of her hospitality and just drank the afternoon away. Melinda is getting ever more successful on her business venture, Sophie will chase her fairytale story in a lighthouse and Ikuko has successfully changed of job… It’s usually at around that time that I realize maybe I should change of friends and hang out with f***ups like me a bit more. Oh well! I guess it’s better to rejoice for your friends than just not rejoicing at all! I’ll buy the champagne but don’t mind me, if I drink it! As Churchill once said “in victory you deserve it, in defeat you need it”
Sophie and Ikuko a well deserved flute
Out of the nice encounters, I was given to meet an award wining sake connoisseur. On Monday Melinda allowed me to join her and her exclusive sake drinking team for an evening in Ebisu. Once again I got to learn much about sake while drinking plenty of it! It is still very difficult for me to express myself when I taste a sake, I guess the only words I know are to describe wine and they somehow don’t quite fit Sake. Melinda actually told me there was a complete set of sentence in Japanese to describe the experience.
When you learn about wine you first need to learn about smells, link the smells and the taste… it’s quite empirical. As it seems Japanese describe sake more with feelings… but I need to learn more about that (and thus drink more!)
Anyways it was a lovely evening that started at Buri… but I had beer cause I’m not allowed sake there anymore! then we went for diner on the same street but I forgot the restaurant’s name! And finally we went to this fancy place called Toki no ma, I recommend! they have an English menu but I was told it wasn’t up to date… still it’s always useful! But if you can read the Japanese sake menu apparently they change it everyday and have a very unique selection, they also have nice food and the restaurant itself looks “select”!
A fine evening! If you want to learn more about sake and where to enjoy it in the best company in NYC please check out Mr Tim’s blog
Timsama the Sake Samourai and Sweet pea Melinda
