Cook your own Japanese food, dagnambit!

Had lunch with a former co-worker today and managed to catch up with him and get the scoops on stuff at the old workplace.

Ran some errands after lunch and then later in the afternoon had dinner at Gyu-kaku with Jessica, her sisters, her cousin, and a friend. It's this cool Japanese restaurant on Kapiolani Boulevard where you basically gather around a table with a built-in grill and cook your own food. I guess gyu-kaku is to Japanese as yakiniku is to Korean. Or not? I don't know. But the only other place I know where you cook your own food is the Yakiniku Camelia restaurants in McCully and University, and their cuisine is Korean.

But yeah, everything at Gyu-kaku was excellent, especially the Japanese ice cream pancake desert. Yum!

Tomorrow's pretty busy: an interview to conduct tomorrow morning at the Mission Houses Museum, then lunch with a co-worker at public radio. Then back home to clean things up and get ready for our weekend getaway with Jessica and her family. At 7pm, there's a guest lecturer I'll also need to interview for my news piece at the Mission Houses Museum, then it's a nice long drive up to the north shore to start the weekend.