The Half Arsed Traveller: 2015-04-07: I just Can't get Enough

Went for a walk through Nagoya in the morning to warm up the legs for a busy day.

I am not sure what the message is but I love the medium.

Then went to the gym and was watching the boxers whilst waiting for Ewa. I was asked if I would like to train boxing. I said sure. If someone offers me something new to try I always try to say yes. Makes for more fun.

If I ran a brothel I would totally cover it candy as well.

Ewa went to do some exercises in the heated room but it was full so she came back and joined in the boxing lesson. I could totally take her in the ring as she is still hobbling.
Some people would probably do some research on their gym. This would be less fun.

Is a new character every few weeks. Last week was a Sailor Moon type school girl. I did not look up her skirt

It is way funnier to find out that your boxing coach is the 3 or 4 time world Bantamweight champion after you have started.
It is less funny to find out you no longer know how to skip and even less funny to find out you can only do ten skips in a row before your fitness is considered Not Really Up To It.

Everyone has a picture of this so I took one too.

Mention was made that I could probably knock a Bantam weight guy down in the ring. If I could get close enough to him and if he was polite enough to not hit me during the process. This is an idea I will leave as pure theory for now. He can skip way better than me so I will work on beating him there before beating him in the ring. I am a Magnanimous (and Humble) Man.

They are coconuts. Which doesn't make much sense for a French bistro but at least it means it's not porn.

And then I went to Naginata training.
All of this exercising was to rectify the damage done by dinner.

Food & Beverage Review: Kin Boshi

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Soft Tofu.

Not so happy with soft tofu

Nagoya has the famous local chicken. These guys specialise in it at prices which are considered reasonable.

Chicken and Beef skewers so you can taste the Nagoya Chicken and laugh at the fools that prefer beef

Apparently edamame, seemed more like broad beans to me but I am somewhat of an uncouth lout

Quail eggs with anchovy paste. I am becoming a champion of fish eating. Every time I get anchovies I remember the Futurama line "oh no-one likes them at first" then wonder why anyone keeps trying. I guess it is a chef's conspiracy.

Sweet little tomatoes. Ewa's favourite of the dinner. She is getting vege crazy I think.

We arrived without a booking and were offered a table rather than the counter provided we could finish within 2 hours.

Beef to remind you how crap it is compared to Nagoya Chicken (these were great)

We are getting very nimble teeth.

And 5 chickens in a row to hammer home the point.

We did finish within 2 hours, but only just. Don't come here if you have theatre tickets.

Sorry Japan but these make no sense. Grilled rice is chewy and boring and we don't like it. We might have been meant to put them in the soup, we're not sure, it would have ruined the soup though so we didn't

And you do not want to mess with a Polish Princess that has a good soup in front of her. Ewa had given up halfway through the chicken skewers but the soup brought her back into the fray

And a creme caramel in case you can still walk.

We aren't sophisticated enough to really appreciate it I suspect and the price is about three times what gorging on chicken wings around the corner would cost. I would strongly recommend going here to try it and I suspect some people would lose their minds. For us we might go again but will probably try somewhere new.

Within 200m of the apartment there are probably on the order of a thousand restaurants and we becoming hard to please.