Although we were up late yesterday and Chie worked hard to cook all the food for our guests… And me, we decided to take a subway to Azabu-juban to visit the Summer Night Festival there. A lot of food stands. Including an area were the embassies in Minato-ku promoted their culture and food. Of course the Swedish embassy was there with meat balls and lingon berry jam.

We arrived in Azabu-juban at 2:30 pm. The festival was not supposed to open until 3 pm so Chie and I thought we were going to have to wait. And we were so hungry. But we were lucky. Some food stands was opening as we arrived. First we had kalbi (Korean BBQ), kebab sandwich from Dönner Kebab, yakitori (Japanese grilled chicken).

Then we walked to the Swedish embassy to have meat balls with lingon berry jam. It was so crowded you sometimes almost had to push to get somewhere. There was a long line, maybe 40 meters, in front of one food stand. We followed the line to see were it led. To the German food stand where they served sausage of some sort.

   

It was so many people everywhere. The only place where you could be by yourself was in front of the Brittish food stand. There were no people there at all. Poor Brittish people.

It was too many people in the area where the embassy food stands were so we went back to the other area. We had some grilled beef from one of the most famous beef places in Japan (Yonesawa) almost comparable to Kobe beef. Chie had some cooked starch ball. We bought a Coke. Then some Sasai sea shell. I may have forgotten something but you can understand that we were quite full.

By 6 pm we returned back home. Just in time before the rain started.