Last Sunday, transfer calls came. If you've been on a mission, you know what a big deal that is. The elders live in anticipation of what will happen. We've had four elders here with us. Transfer calls revealed that Elder Hamilton and Elder Deleon would be leaving us and no one was coming to replace them. I'm realizing that this is going to be a hard part of the mission as we get attached to these young men.
So, the four of us went the next day out to lunch for a farewell hurrah. We went to a sushi place called Kappazushi's. It was such a fun, cultural experience: You sit in booths. A little track runs through the restaurant past each booth. On the track are little plates with different kinds of sushi on them, as well as other foods and condiments. You can take whatever looks good on the track. You can also order from an electronic notebook at each table. You can order specific sushis or soups or other things. Those orders come on what is called the shinkansen- the fast train above. It brings your order right to your table. Each plate costs 108 yen - about a dollar each. At the end of your meal, you call the waitress to your table using the tablet and she totals your consumption by counting the plates and gives you a bill. Does that not sound fun?
Following are some pictures from that lunch:
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| Octopus sushi |
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| This was my favorite: raw salmon with grated dikon and kyupi on rice |
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| Elder Hansen ordering on the tablet |
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| That's the track with sushi going by |
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| All four elders- what great guys! |
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| The fast train that brings your order right to your table. |
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| The stranger it sounded, the more the elders wanted to try it. This one is cow diaphragm sushi |
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| This had crab and crab guts or something like that. |
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| The udon soup was delicious |
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| The elders got in competition mode. Elder Hamilton won with eighteen plates. |
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| Elder Hansen didn't do so bad, either. |
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| Elder Deleon- the greenie- eating octopus meatballs |
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| Raw sardine sushi |
It was a delightful culinary adventure with some fun guys. We're glad they include us in their shenanigans!
5 comments:
This looks like so much fun. I went to a similar place in Shanghai. The waiters were on roller skates, the food was delivered onto a huge round table with a lazy susan in the middle, and you went downstairs and picked out the "live" food from fish tanks and vegetable baskets that you wanted to eat and then they cooked it and sent it to your lazy susan. Love things like this.
qI have just one word to say about that great- looking sushi - yum!
What a fun and unique dining and cultural experience! Some things looked and sounded so good - other dishes not so much! You are so adventurous to try so many things! You do get attached to "your" missionaries. I still remember that first transfer on our first mission and telling Pres. Smith - "You can't transfer our missionaries!" But, then we quickly came to love the new elders and sisters just as much.
We have a restaurant like that in Boise. I haven't tried it yet and I'm sure it doesn't have as many exotic varieties. What a fun experience. I love all this Japanese culture I'm learning about :)
I've seen something like this on Amazing Race where they have to eat certain kinds of sushi and pick the right ones from the moving conveyor belt. It looks and sounds amazing!
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