Skewered!

...maybe it was something I ate.

There are a few places that sell skewers of food. I'd like to tell you about two of them. One was a restaurant in Kawasaki. We were going to La Cittadella, a pretty, neat place where you can forget that you are in Japan and pretend you are in Italy for a little while. Before we got there, we settled in for a bite to eat at a Japanese restaurant that sold skewers of food. Most of it was pretty good, actually. Then I grabbed the skewer with the meatballs. Yes, they looked like meatballs, and the first bite tasted like meatballs. A second bite revealed a surprise inside the meatball: a hardboiled egg. Luckily, the egg had been shelled! The size of the egg was rather small and I would guess it to be about the size of my thumb's first digit. Once I got over the surprise, it wasn't that bad.

The other evening in the supermarket, there was a prepared food section with a tray full of just-off-the-grill skewers. It looked like chicken parts and I grabbed a bunch. I did stay away from the skewers of chicken gizzards and chicken livers. ("Save the liver!"). I got home, grabbed a beer and dove into the skewers. The first one was pretty good. But the first bite from the second skewer seemed to have a bit too much fat. So did the second one. And, the third. In fact, the skewer had been made of small pieces of folded chicken skin and no meat! I'm sorry. I know you can't unread something that you've just read, but that is what the skewer was made from. Chicken skin! "OK, no problem," I think to myself, while I grab another skewer. Oops. It was also a chicken skin skewer. Half of my skewers were made up of chicken skin and only chicken skin. My discover that evening called for an unscheduled trip to a Scottish Restaurant. That's right, I ended up in McDonald's.

A side note, it was a busy week for me and the next few weeks will be no less busy! I've got at least a couple more posts waiting to see the light of day for this week, so please check back.