The dessert, a kind of Portuguese flan pudding seasoned with espresso coffee and sweet beans was served in traditional pottery, along with fine green rise tea.

The biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world consists of the “inner market” where the auctions and the logistic of the fish delivery take place and the “outer market”, a mixture of small fish dealers, kitchen tools shops, and many food places especially sushi restaurants.

The daily Tsukiji newspaper provides the fish dealers and the private visitors with information and an orientation map. The pink sticker is an assumption of the sushi spot where I’ve eaten my first Japanese sushi in Tokyo.

Men eat fish.

We arrived at the same time and were squeezed together into the same spot at the bar. We ordered and nestled. The sushi chef started to stick the rise and slice the fish. In a short while he presented me a great lunch menu. I was satisfied.

Than I sneaked a peak at my neighbor’s sushi. What I saw puzzled me a little bit. Only two sushi pieces stand on their plate. They enjoyed it and order another small portion. The same procedure repeated itself several times and the sushi chef noted meticulously and patiently the flow of the appetite on some paper tables lying on top of the bar.