Last night I went into town to hook up with my favourite former student, who's back in Hiroshima for the New Year holidays. I suggested that we go to the skewered meat ("kushiyaki") restaurant that we'd been to before for a snack before hitting a nearby restaurant and then going on to a nearby bar that opened in October, and which I have not yet visited...
It turned out that the last time we met up, my good time girl had ended up in the very bar that I mentioned and had not liked it so much, so we scratched that option from the list of things to do. By the way, last time we met, it was to go to the Haloween party that I blogged about here:
https://hive.blog/hive-147010/@hirohurl/early-halloween-party-in-hiroshima
(She's the one with the purple bat wings on her head.)
Anyway, when we got to the kushiyaki joint it was packed and the staff suggested that we come back in twenty minutes or so. We wandered to what I had thought would be the main restaurant for the evening, but that was fully booked. We tried another place, but there too there was no room at the inn.
My companion was not too keen on getting rejected from any more restaurants, and I talked about why we should not be afraid of rejections as they lead us to a "yes" in the end; it is only if you reject rejection that you get permanently rejected!
By this time we had come back around the block, and lo and behold, I espied two empty stalls at the very counter of the kushiyaki restaurant where we had suffered our first rejection - and in short order "no" was transformed into "yes" as we parked our cold butts on those very welcome stalls in the warm and cosy kushiyaki restaurant.
During the course of the evening we ordered:
- 3 glasses of red wine for Yours Truly
- Ginger highball for the lady
- Skewered liver
- Skewered pork
- Skewered chicken breast
- Skewered chicken tenders (mine with a blue cheese topping)
- Skewered chicken and spring onion
- Skewered chicken neck (better than it sounds, apparently)
- Skewered chicken meatballs
- Skewered mountain potato gnocchi
- Skewered camembert cheese
- Skewered avaocado halves with wasabi sauce
The total came to just ¥7,510, (around $48 at current rates), so not too bad at all. Considering it was my treat, I got off quite lightly!
My companion expressed an interest in heading to a bar before parting ways and we agreed not to go to the new one but to head to a bar I'd not been to for a while further into the entertainment district of the city centre. A couple of beers for me and a gin rickey for the lady who promptly paid the ¥2,100 bar bill when we left, which I thought was a jolly decent gesture when all is said and done, and we parted company to catch our respective last train and tram home.
Walking home from the station under a clear night sky, I could clearly see Jupiter (retrograde) in Taurus and Mars (retrograde) in Cancer with Orion battling Taurus and the Gemini Twins carrying on their eternal discussion between the bull and the crab.
Cheers!
David Hurley
#InspiredFocus
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