Trott Weblog

It's great to see Furukawa-san, the CEO of Nifty using their newly launched (it launched on December 2) Cocolog service powered by TypePad to keep his own weblog - it's a testament to his belief in weblogs and TypePad and should be an inspiration for large companies who get involved in the weblogging space.

It was especially great to see this post appear on his own weblog yesterday because it reminded me that I wanted to write about the tempura dinner that we experienced while in Tokyo.

Imagine a two hour tempura meal that doesn't weigh you down or make you cringe at the sight of battered anything. The restaurant, which will remain nameless since I never caught it, was the polar opposite of probably most every place I have ever eaten tempura in the United States. The batter was light, the oil was fresh, the selection varied from fish spine tempura (like a potato chip) to the freshest shrimp ever. I'm no