Travel Blog - My first trip to Japan - Food and Drink
BACKGROUND
This might be my favorite part of Japan. And it gets crazier each time I go. So stay tuned for future pictures (and videos).
But for now, this being my first trip to Japan, I kind of stuck with things I knew, until I was challenged. If you have ever been to the city Formerly known as Koromo, in the bottom of the train station is a gaijin izakaya called Kevin's Bar. The owner has an amazing memory, and if you go there, you become immortalized by his wall of Polaroids. I hope I have pictures of my challenge menu items, but if not, I'll tell the story below.
Now, let's eat and drink!
Yebisu Beer Museum, Tokyo
This is my go to joint in Tokyo. I've been there every trip, except the last one in 2022-Nov (it was closed, probably lingering endemic and remodeling reasons). This was the only time I visited with this layout, so it seems like they change it frequently. But it gets better every time. And it just so happens, I am wearing a Yebisu t-shirt while writing this blog today. A Japanese co-worker's wife agrees with me that this is the best mass-produced Japanese beer 🍺. Do you agree?
The story about this takoyaki. A Japanese co-worker 🙎♂ invited me and my American co-worker to his house for dinner, after work one night. We were both honored and had so much fun. The food was so superb, and the company was too. Our Japanese co-worker 🙎♂, his wife 🚶♀, his brand new baby girl 👶, and a friend of theirs 👧. We ate many things (as you can see here), played games, drank beer and just had the most awesome time. I hope to meet them again in the future, if only to say "hello" again.
Only went to these in order to get shot glasses for a friend who collected them. Didn't even eat there, thankfully.
The Lounge in Narita
This is what robots 🤖 should be!
The best (and only) robot 🤖 beer 🍺 I've ever had!
CONCLUSION
So that's the complete trip to Japan 🇯🇵 for my first time. The food was so delicious that I'm pretty sure I gained weight. Maybe I can blame it on my (small amount) hair, since I was afraid to get my hair cut when I was there. I had so much fun and look forward to sharing the rest of the pics with my face-to-face friends and family. The future trips will be coming as soon as I can get them out, but I might change continents first, just to get some variety in the space-time continuum.
I am hopeful that the J-Skip visa program may allow me to move there semi-permanently. We will see. The timing is not great, but if this job search drags on long enough, it might work out.
And please ask questions in the comment section below. I'd be happy to answer almost anything.