A QUIET DAY IN TOKYO

We leave the Tokyo Westin at 6:30AM Sunday morning to catch a flight from Narita Airport to Singapore.  Thus, I won't have time to post an article that day.  So, I send this now, and not long after midnight Hawaii time will come a second posting to cover that absence.   By the way, did I tell you that it is cold in Tokyo?  44 F.

As I indicated yesterday, I've been to Robuchon many times.

• Click on this to see some of my previous visits.  
• Ten years ago I indicated that Joel Robuchon, a quarter century ago, was named Chef of the Century, and that he is five years younger than me.
• He first retired in 1995 at the age of 50.

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  His cuisine is retrogressive, harking back to the earlier days of French cooking before all the micro-stuff you now see, called molecular gastronomy, created in 1988, but only began to become prominent around 2000.
• He passed away five years ago at the age of 73.

It was another perfectly clear day in Tokyo today, so we had a perfect view of Mount Fuji from sunrise to sunset.  Went shopping at the Uniqlo in Ginza.  Actually, they have two large stores only a couple of blocks apart in this region of Tokyo.

We noticed on the other side of Robuchon at the shopping mall activity growing.  There will be a Korean Festival this weekend.

Mayumi and Tadashi Matsunaga joined us at the Westin Tokyo executive club, and we ended the evening at a curry with pork ramen shop.

First time I've ever had Suntory Umami Beer.

About my pedometer.  From Honolulu through the first whole day in Tokyo I walked 14,706 steps.

Then Day 2 in Tokyo was also a challenge, for I walked 11,377 steps.  The muscles up and down both legs are sore from so much walking.

26,083 steps for three days is a record-breaker for me.  All the more impressive because most of the first day was sitting on a plane and two taxi rides.

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