What could be a better way to experience my first traditional Japanese izakaya (bar/restaurant where you set a menu and drink limitlessly for a set price)? The week after I ar
rived in Tachikawa some of my co-workers took us out to celebrate. Myself and Risa's arrival and Rie's departure (she is getting married and is moving on, and even though I have only know her for a couple o
f weeks, I will miss her!). We had a great time getting to know one another. The two non-Japanese looking gentlemen in the photos are Mark and Tyler, my fellow foreign teachers. Many of you may not know, but recently I became a vegetarian and have had a much harder time than I thought I would finding food that didn't have meat in it. I'm sure it would help some if I was
able to read the menus, but I am not entirely certain that even that would help. So at dinner, a salad was placed in front of me, it
was a big bowl that we all shared, I looked at Mark and said, "is this chicken or tuna?" He said it was chicken of the sea. First of all, I know that Tuna IS chicken of the sea. It doesn't help my case much though because he then proceeded to try and convince me (successfully for a time) that this was different, it was actually chicken grown in the sea. (I would like to say now that I was thinking they lived near the sea and that they got the name because they were fed fish... or something like that. In all honesty, I was just being naive and have learned my lesson, and well, at least I got a fairly entertaining story out of it!
rived in Tachikawa some of my co-workers took us out to celebrate. Myself and Risa's arrival and Rie's departure (she is getting married and is moving on, and even though I have only know her for a couple o
f weeks, I will miss her!). We had a great time getting to know one another. The two non-Japanese looking gentlemen in the photos are Mark and Tyler, my fellow foreign teachers. Many of you may not know, but recently I became a vegetarian and have had a much harder time than I thought I would finding food that didn't have meat in it. I'm sure it would help some if I was 
able to read the menus, but I am not entirely certain that even that would help. So at dinner, a salad was placed in front of me, it 
was a big bowl that we all shared, I looked at Mark and said, "is this chicken or tuna?" He said it was chicken of the sea. First of all, I know that Tuna IS chicken of the sea. It doesn't help my case much though because he then proceeded to try and convince me (successfully for a time) that this was different, it was actually chicken grown in the sea. (I would like to say now that I was thinking they lived near the sea and that they got the name because they were fed fish... or something like that. In all honesty, I was just being naive and have learned my lesson, and well, at least I got a fairly entertaining story out of it!
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