Met up J and A at Shinjuku. The last time we saw each other, I was riding my bicycle back home from their apartment after our last time we all hung in Yonago over 3 years ago. When I saw them coming out of Yodabashi camera, I felt like I was transported back in time. Both of them did not change at all. Actually, that is how it was for almost all of my friends that I met again in Tokyo. It seems, phyiscally everyone is stuck in time, which is a good thing. Must be all the fresh fish that is keeping everyone young. Anyways, we went to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant in Lunime. My coworkers recommended me this place as being very authentic and good. I made a quest to find a decent Pho place in Tokyo since I arrived and unfortunately the quest is still continuing. The food at the restaurant was decent but it catered heavily to the Japanese taste. The Pho combo I had looked almost like Ramen except for it had rice noodles. The soup didn't have any beef but it had the same cut of pork as you would find in ramen. It didn't even come with lemon, herb leaves and bean sprouts. Also I couldn't find any hoisin sauce which I usually overindulge myself when I eat Pho. Needless to say, the Pho and restaurant was subpar, though I did notice that there were Vietnamese people making the food. Anyways, back to the min topic, so we all talked for a good amount of time just shooting crap and catching up. Afterwards, we headed to Aoyama and Omotesando to go to chill and eat cake at a café. The place we went to was called Anniversary.
The cakes and tea we had were amazing. We later walked to Shibuya to look at some more shops before heading to my neck of the woods to eat dinner and end the night with karaoke! Yep, the infamous karaoke. I haven't gone in so long, actually never gone since I arrived in Tokyo so I was really excited in going this time.
As expected, we ended the night with a bunch of laughter and embarrassing but memorable moments.
Sunday –
I had to wake up early to head to Kawasaki to catch my friend's American football game. It was the first game of the season. Going to Kawasaki was not so bad, but I did have difficulty in trying to find which way the stadium was since the station had multiple exits. I failed to identify which exit I had to take when I was looking up for the directions earlier. I tried to use my super human directional instincts but as usual, they were useless. I ended up taking a taxi to the stadium. I was a bit late but I made it to the beginning of the second quarter. This is the first football game I ever saw in Japan so it was refreshing.
My friend's team ended up winning the game by 6 points. Actually the score was 6 – 0. The kicker failed to score on the PAT. After the game, I joined him and his team to a victory yaki-niku extravaganza at a local restaurant. Everyone pigged out, including yours truly. This was the first time I ate raw beef liver. It was interesting. It was a good time but I was so stuffed from the food that I couldn't do anything else. I headed home afterwards just to crash and sleep until I had to get ready for work today.
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