Menu at restaurants

The thing i like about japan is the menu. You have life size models of the food that you can expect inside the restaurant. They are made out of rubber. In fact there is a place in tokyo where you can buy these rubber menus.

This is very good esp for a "gaijin" who can't make out the japanese script

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This kind of advertising kinda bowled me out. People stand at the busy centres like the exits/entry to the subway. They distribute these small packages.

The packages contain tissue paper with a pamphlet inside. The tired people use the tissue paper to wipe away sweat and in this process end up reading the pamphlets. These packets are small and easy to carry

The higher version of the same is distribution of wet tissues. This might obviously be costing quite a bit.

Katsu Kobo Wako @ Harumi Triton

Had lunch here. It’s a restaurant in the 3^rd floor of Harumi Triton (pronounced as “Ha-roo-mee Tho-ree-thon”. Just walked in. Started with the green tea. I chose “Hana”. Did not quite realize what I was having till it reached me. It was 2 fried cutlet pieces of pork and 2 fried pieces of shrimp with lots of cabbage that was cut in length. Further, there was a bowl of rice and a stew. Not sure what kind of stew it was. It had vegetables so was glad.

Cost 1480 yen. Now that I check this up on my Jap to English translator. I guess, it was one of the most expensive meals in the restaurant.

The service was good. Very nice waiters & waitresses.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fr.gnavi.co.jp%2Fg505917%2F&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Translation from Japan to English

Found the language translator in google.

www.google.co.in/language_tools/

Any www link or set of words or paragraphs can be translated from the native script of any language into English.

This has helped me a lot in Japan. Most of the websites are in japanese. This utility gives me a somewhat good picture of what i am looking for. At times, a portion of the page may not be translated. However, with some playing around with the links we can achieve what we want to.

Alice Collection @ Harumi Triton

This is like a mini-canteen with lots of over-the-counter food establishments. It is something like a food court in a mall. Lots of variety here. My favourite - Ebi Raise. This is prawns+curry+rice + a soup which is part of the set. A different variation of the same dish would be prawns+pork+beef+chicken pieces with curry & rice. The soup forms the part of the set as well. These taste good and have it regularly.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fr.gnavi.co.jp%2Fg505910%2Fmenu1.htm&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

There are other variations like raise+beef curry or raise+pork curry. Now pork can be fry or small chunks of soft pork. Do not like the soft chunks part. Its quite slimy. Have this innate aversion to anything that feels or looks slimy.

Harumi Triton

The office I work in – nikkociti group is located in Harumi Triton in the area of Kachidoki. It is pretty close to the Kachidoki station on the Tsukishima bashi side. (bashi – bridge). It has a few towers with lots of companies having their offices here. We are located in office tower X. A starbucks shop at the entrance is the landmark.

It has a lot of shops, including a LAOX (shop were stuff is got duty free, I believe). Good dining options. There is an Indian restaurant there called Bombay Café and my god!! It’s always full. People here like Indian food.

It is very scenic around that office. There is a canal where you always have people fishing. There are some good landscape gardens around the towers. I always take a walk trying to get the atmosphere to sink in.. esp after lunch.

www.harumi-triton.jp

Some background..

I reached Narita airport - Tokyo on 29th Oct 2007. Well, not sure how long is this assignment going to be.

First impressions on reaching Tokyo airport..

-> Language is going to be a problem. I need to pick up some Japanese for conversation
-> People are very friendly, helpful and polite.
-> This is like any other developed company.
-> Most signboards are in Japanese. Do i need to learn the script? Heard that is it pretty complicated
-> Its damned expensive here. Min taxi fare is around 650 yen. If one converts it to indian rupee which is roughly divide by 3. It is quite frightening.