We leave the Tokyo Westin at 6:30AM Sunday morning to catch a flight from Narita Airport to Singapore. Thus, I won't have time to post an article that day. So, I send this now, and not long after midnight Hawaii time will come a second posting to cover that absence. By the way, did I tell you that it is cold in Tokyo? 44 F.As I indicated yesterday, I've been to Robuchon many times.
- Click on this to see some of my previous visits.
- Ten years ago I indicated that Joel Robuchon, a quarter century ago, was named Chef of the Century, and that he is five years younger than me.
- He first retired in 1995 at the age of 50.
His cuisine is retrogressive, harking back to the earlier days of French cooking before all the micro-stuff you now see, called molecular gastronomy, created in 1988, but only began to become prominent around 2000.- He passed away five years ago at the age of 73.
It was another perfectly clear day in Tokyo today, so we had a perfect view of Mount Fuji from sunrise to sunset. Went shopping at the Uniqlo in Ginza. Actually, they have two large stores only a couple of blocks apart in this region of Tokyo.
We noticed on the other side of Robuchon at the shopping mall activity growing. There will be a Korean Festival this weekend.
Mayumi and Tadashi Matsunaga joined us at the Westin Tokyo executive club, and we ended the evening at a curry with pork ramen shop.
First time I've ever had Suntory Umami Beer.
About my pedometer. From Honolulu through the first whole day in Tokyo I walked 14,706 steps.
Then Day 2 in Tokyo was also a challenge, for I walked 11,377 steps. The muscles up and down both legs are sore from so much walking.
26,083 steps for three days is a record-breaker for me. All the more impressive because most of the first day was sitting on a plane and two taxi rides.
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