Chinese Dinner at Home

The whole day today Chie prepared for the dinner. I help when I could. But mainly I just looked cute. Chinese food usually needs a lot of preparation. And then it is cooked in a few minutes only. And eating in less 🙁


Chinese dinner

In the evening Jimmy, Emma and Mina-sensei came for dinner. We had so many different dishes. Dumplings. Minced meat with salad. Spare ribs. And many more. For desert Mina-sensei had brought eggs with chocolate mouse and some other mouse inside. And we ate until we could not eat any more.


Emma & Jimmy Emma & an Elk

Big Surprise at Bic Camera

Chie and I met Jimmy and Emma in Ginza at around 2:30 pm. Jimmy and Emma were sitting on a bench outside of Prada watching people. It was a Saturday and the weather was great, sunny and 22 degrees.

First stop after meeting them was the Hello Kitty shop. When we came out of there Jimmy and Emma was one Hello Kitty stuffed cat richer. And a few thousand yen poorer.

Next stop was Bic Camera. Chie wanted to check if they had a Nintendo DS game called The Zoo Keeper. But it had been discontinued. Though a special edition will be on sale in March.

Jimmy and Emma bought a cable to their camera so that they can connect it to a TV. The big surprise of the day was that the one helping them finding the cable was Anders Ihren. Well, doesn’t say much to many of you but this is an old school friend of Jimmy from Gäle. It turned out he went to school here in Tokyo 3 years ago and just stayed.


Jimmy and an old school friend Anders

Before returning home Chie and I showed Jimmy and Emma where they could find some good and not too expensive restaurants in the Shimbashi area. So that they could have a good Valentaine’s dinner.

We left them around 5 pm to continue exploring Ginza and Shimbashi area. And went back to Bic Camera and bought a Panasonic 42″ plasma screen TV.

When we got back home we did grocery shopping for tomorrow’s dinner at Tokyu store. And had dinner at Yasaka to celebrate Valantine’s day and that we within a week will have a new TV at home.

Shabu-shabu at Home

Friday night. I could leave the office at 6:30 pm because the teleconference meeting with Sweden was cancelled. I hurried home and bought beer and coke but forgot to buy Ume-chu (plum wine). Chie was really angry 😉

We were having Jimmy and Emma visiting for dinner, Shabu-shabu (hot pot were meat and vegetables are cooked in bullion). The Ume-chu was for Emma. So I went to the 7-Eleven store and bough a bottle. And both Chie and Emma was happy 🙂


Emma, Jimmy & Chie ready for shabu-shabu

We had dinner for 2-3 hours. Dipping, eating, talking, enjoying. Afterwards we were totally full.


Emma & Jimmy inspecting the shabu-shabu meat Jimmy showing Emma how shabu-shabu is done

Still, after just a few minutes resting we could find some more space for strawberries and ice cream. And then we had to break up and get Jimmy and Emma to the station to catch one of the last trains. Time flies when you are having fun.

Gamarjobat

Big day today. Chie and I were introducing Jimmy and Emma to Gamarjobat. Gamarjobat is a silent comedy duo. It means “Hello” in Georgian.


Gamarjobat show

It was a two hours show with a 15 minutes break. The break was really necessary to rest your stomach muscles. Too much laughing.

It is difficult to explain what they do that is so funny. But it is a mix of simple humor and full body control. You have to watch them live if you have a chance. You can also find some videos on YouTube and Gamarjobat’s homepage. We had a really fun and amazing time.

Unfortunately all things come to an end. And so did the show. But we continued to enjoy the evening by having dinner at a nearby Irish pub. Joining us was Non and Ryo from club Leo. They had also watched the Gamarjobat show.


Johan, Emma & Jimmy Non, Ryo & Chie

With Jimmy & Emma at Iroha-sushi

Chie and I met Jimmy and Emma at the Naka-meguro station at 6 pm. We had planned to go to Iroha-sushi in Naka-meguro for dinner.


Chef at Iroha-sushi

It was Jimmy and Emma’s first time at a real sushi restaurant. So we tried a lot of different fishes and shells. It seemed they liked the ankimo, chu-toro, o-toro, and buri the most. All fatty fishes.

Most amazing? The rattling fish sashimi! We ordered aji for sashimi. As usual at Iroha-sushi the fish is cut so that it can be used as decoration. The fish is so fresh its body is still rattling when it is served.


Jimmy & Emma at Iroha-sushi Fressssh and rrrrrattling aji

When we had filled our bellies with delicious fishes we walked slowly back home. We only made one brief stop. To buy ice cream, which we brought back home.


Ice cream lovers