At Ginza

So this is my first time at Ginza, Bellevue. Though I lived for a month in the apartment just across the street when I first came to Seattle but I didn't get a chance to check this out ... a Japanese restaurant owned by some chinese guys.

The setting is very Japanese indeed, with Japanese chefs and Japanese waitress ... though later on we found that one of the "Japanese looking" guy actually speaks Cantonese. Good signs include plenty japanese people eating there ... and just next to us there were a japanese girl nicely dressed (I have to admit that they are professional in making themselves presentable) and somehow a very "grass rooted" looking japanese guy having dinner together ... they were eating clams in miso soup. I wasn't too interested but my friend actually did asked the waitress about what that was and our nice neighbours were very excited and went on explaining how good the soup was ... and then this japanese lady was really nice and offer me one of the clam from her bowl of soup just to assure me of how delicious it is ... I wasn't expecting that indeed, she put the clam in her plate and passed it to me ... at first I was thankful and impressed by the hospitality but then I realized that was from her bowl ... did she just dig in already??? Is this Japanese culture?? is it impolite to just return the clam ....? with the concept of “ 大菌食細菌", I ate that clam and that was really delicious! It was so juicy and the miso soup surprisingly didn't take away the original favor of the clams ... it was just fabulous ...

So big thanks to that japanese girl and I know what to order next time ...