The ride from Hakata to Yukie's place of work was a troop. I began to feel as though I just wanted to stay in one location and just chill. All this traveling without a moment to smell the flowers was wearing me down.I felt bad that I didn't get anything for Ayako. The truth was I had barely spoken to her since the Christmas get together and thought I wouldnt get to see her in Japan because in our last conversation it seemed as though I wasn't in her plans when I arrived to Japan. It turned out she was the first to hit me up after the earthquake and has followed up with all kinds of accommodations, such as given me her room to sleep in while she takes the couch. Dam I better get creative ASAP.
When we finally get there it was awesome to see Yukie. I wanted to give her a hug but felt it was inappropriate at her place of work so I held back. We bust out the glasses I asked for and even fixes my old piece of shit glasses. Wow my Japanese friends go the whole nine yards for me. I am very grateful to know such people.
Thank god the eye examination had me reading hiragana rather than kanji cause i would have been fucked. And thank god I can read hiragana otherwise I would have been communicatively prison raped. At first I didn't realize that I wasn't suppose to be able to clearly see the writing at 100% and kept asking for a stronger prescription even though I could read the characters. It wasn't until Yukie asked if it was too strong that I decided to look around and realized DAM I have a magnifying glass for lenses. I quickly asked to make it weaker but had already gotten a headache and hoped that the prescription I'm going to receive will be ok. Side note: her coworker was so hot you buy glasses just to talk to her even if you had 20/20
After the eye examination we were lucky to catch Yukie before her lunch break and she joined us for a meal. We took Yukie's car which by the way stood out from the pack. Most cars were either silver or white. She had nice blazing red compact car. I gotta give these girls props on the music they jam too. Not your usual Japanese. Yukie bumped a merengue that I hadn't heard since the 90's at a JP house party. For lunch we headed to a Okonomiyaki. Now I heard of places like these in movies, where you choose your meals and cook it yourself on a table built with a squared out pan. I've done shabu shabu before in Japan and the states but this a bit different. The menu was totally foreign to me with food mixed together. Something I was not use too since all my Japanese meals have the orders separated from one another. I felt like I was looking at a mexican menu. Funny thing was we almost melted those menus. None of us had realized the pans were turned on and we were leaning the the menus on the surface. I felt heat but I guess I was in my IDKWTF to do moment but thank goodness the server noticed and we quickly removed the menus.I decided to order rice and miso soup with steaks. All separate orders while Ayako ordered this mesh that turned out to be something like a pancake when you toss it on the pan and began adding all kinds of seasoning. It was very unfamiliar to me and even stranger when she toss me this mini fork and we began eating right off the pan. Dam good! I'll be having that on my next visit (^O^) monjayaki kudasai
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