Dinner with Yushui and Emily

Wednesday, I met up with Yushui and Emily for dinner. Yushui (pronounced You-Sway not You-shoey like we have been saying) Yushui is working the overnight shift while I am in Tokyo, but he came in early for dinner. Both Emily and Yushui are Chinese and we were going to go to a Chinese restaurant. But on our walk they asked me if I had ever had, what sounded like Currey BBQ. Anything with BBQ sounds safe to me, I don't know why. I told them that I would try it. We are walking to the restaurant which is a few blocks from the office. I can sense from the people that I go to lunch or dinner with that they are a bit nervous or anxious. My goal is to get past that feeling and try to keep the conversation going.



Before arriving to the restaurant, we turn down this little alley way. I made a joke about them taking me down a back alley that they didn't get, because they didn't laugh. I think my jokes are funny, so it MUST be that they just didn't understand the English. ha. Anyways, we arrive at this restaurant and it has about 4 tables and a side room that you can sit on the floor. This is for larger parties I assume. We were the only three in the restaurant. Then they ask me what I would like to eat. This menu is has pictures, which I like since I am a visual person. As I start looking at the pictures I realize that they are pictures of Raw Meat. I don't understand this, I begin thinking about Raw horse that I have heard of?

It was a good dinner, we cooked the meet on a grill in the middle of the table. Conversation was great, I was very glad for this opprotunity to spend with Yushui because my impression of him has changed greatly. I realize now that some of our run ins prior to me coming to Tokyo have been misunderstood. He is not fluent in English so what I have interpreted as him being bossy has been just him having a limited English vocabulary.

Yushui taught me how to properly hold a set of chopsticks, I have been practicing and by the end of the night, I was showing Emily, how to use them. She can use them but she does not hold them properly. We all laughed at the american teaching the chinese girl how to use chopsticks.