Gabriel Mizrahi

hanging with the sushi chef talking to the restaurant owner they're drinking at our table like we're having a ball at this place and we took pictures with the owner and we just had a love fest and we still talk about this woman to this day because she was such a character anyway so i'm like i really want to take you to this place rq we get there and it's closed on monday nights and google maps didn't say that or maybe i didn't look closely enough so

We can't do our queue that night.

So we start looking around Akihabara, looking for a place, and we are going from restaurant to restaurant, and every single place is booked or needs reservations.

Roll-up culture is not a thing here.

So this happens to us.

We get turned away from six, seven, eight.

It might've been as many as 10 places, sushi bars, ramen restaurants.

Weird Japanese sandwich spots that are run by people who don't speak English and don't have any desire to be helpful to us.

Like we are lowering the bar more and we cannot find a restaurant.

And meanwhile, Dr. Nakai over here is swiftly decompensating.

Erin is having a Fukushima Daiichi grade meltdown.

The reactors are starting to crumble into the sea.

No one is going to be able to fish within 100 miles of Erin Margolis for at least a decade.

She is a husk of a Japanese sweet potato, but she's practically nonverbal.

And I am getting pissed off myself because this is one of the downsides to Japan.

You get into these moments where

you love everything.

It's an amazing day.

And then it's time to do something you can't.

And you get frustrated.