Before and After ......

Drayton is in Japan right now (he was in China for Sunday and Monday and now on Tuesday flew to Japan for the rest of the week).  He called this evening as I was putting the boys to bed - Ella is in Malaysia on her class trip - and I got to hear Henry's side of a conversation.  With Henry squealing and laughing and screeching, I was eager to hear the other half of the conversation.

I soon learned that Drayton went out to dinner with one of his guys who works for him in Japan.  He said that they went to a chain sushi place which was considered good, fresh food.  He described for us the menu and said that he ordered the squid sushi.  At this point, a bag was brought out for him to see his (still quite alive) squid .......

So there is the squid that he approved, which was then taken and chopped up and then placed on his plate for him to enjoy (raw of course) .....

Drayton said it was quite tasty and that he enjoyed it thoroughly.  He did note that other folks were selecting fish out of a tank which were then filleted in front of them and served as sashimi with the head and tail on the plate - with the tail still twitching.  I am glad to see that my husband has some limits to his adventurous palate!

Please note that last week he enjoyed Drunken Shrimp as well - live shrimp dropped into a bowl of rice wine and soaked for a predetermined amount of time before fished out and plopped on your plate for you to enjoy.  He said they were pretty gross - go figure!  I'm afraid these are all things it would never occur to me to try!!