October 16, 2003
Nabe
Last night was probably one of my better nights in Japan! The owner of the guest house invited me and a couple of other guests for a nabe style dinner. Its basically like Hot Pot, but they use a really big clay pot and a dashi based broth. There were all sorts of vegetables, chicken chunks as well as chicken meatballs, fish, and mushrooms. mmm mm. We started at 8 and ended eating at around 11.
Before that, Akisan also invited me to the sake store where we did a little sake tasting. He bought a pretty nice 1.8L bottle (standard size for sake!) and we finished it off pretty easily during dinner. Another guest brought some plum wine and we finished that off too! Overall it was a very nice dinner/social gathering with lotsa great food and sake.
Heres a picture of Mr Aki and me that his wife took on his phone:
Posted by eric at October 16, 2003 11:36 PM