On my trip to Japan some time ago, this totally boring tour guide (don’t even remember his name, he’s some college student) told us about a restaurant we were passing. Me, totally hungry as pie and encouraged by some beckoning staff, decided to go in before he could even finish telling us the details, abandoning the tour group.
When I entered, this older woman, maybe in her 50’s or something, was my hostess. I’m taken to my seat in this sort of secluded area, and am given the menu by this young woman. There isn’t much on the menu, but everything is ¥10,000, which is crazy for just one meal. It doesn’t even look that fancy here!
I take the risk, though, and decide that I’ve already lost the tour guide, and might as well buy it.
Well guess my surprise when this lady keeps trying to get me to this SEPERATE room and tries to get touchy. NO THANKS, LADY! Unprofessional. Imagine if her employer found out she was doing this.
I think she got the hint cause she stared at me confused for a few minutes and went back to the hostess while I returned to my meal.
It was this delicious pork noodle soup, best I’ve ever had! It was a little hard to eat with all the staff looking at me puzzled (was it my “KILL ALL GOLFERS” jacket?) but I finished it within 30 minutes and left.
By luck, my tour group seemed to had circled back and everyone was staring at me like I insulted their mother! I get that abandoning the tour was maybe rude, but the food was good! They need to train their employees to not be so weird, though.