While Michael was out gallivanting around town, I was left to my own devices. This meant a night of sushi and sake with JP, Shannon, Kai, Vince and Bethany. 
The place we went was cool because it allowed us to bring our own beer, wine and sake and they didn't charge us a corking fee. This allowed us to buy drinks at a lower price at Total Wine and saving money that way. While Shan and I sipped a little sake and drank a little wine, the others went for some sake bombers. 
Only after a couple rounds of table pounding to make the sake shot fall into the beer did we find out that this was not allowed. Oops. We got a few side-eyes from the rest of the small restaurant and were worried about offending the two older couples at the table behind ours.
We got a boat of sushi or two. 
Kai didn't really understand why he wasn't allowed to play with the boat. 
Apparently it's bad luck to drop your own sake into your beer glass, so they used a complex system to allow all bombers good luck.
Turns out that there was no need to be worried about offending our table neighbors. They were good-spirited, telling us we reminded them of what it was like to be young. After insisting they were still young, we even talked them into taking a shot of sake! 
Kai didn't really understand why he wasn't allowed to play with the boat. Apparently it's bad luck to drop your own sake into your beer glass, so they used a complex system to allow all bombers good luck.Turns out that there was no need to be worried about offending our table neighbors. They were good-spirited, telling us we reminded them of what it was like to be young. After insisting they were still young, we even talked them into taking a shot of sake! 
Sounds fun!!! Where did you go that you could bring your own beer AND sake???
ReplyDeleteStacy - I guess I should have listed where we went! It's called Hana Japanese Eatery. Their sushi was great!
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