Sushi breakfast at Tsukiji

Met an old friend Karen (also an MFA alumnus) for breakfast at Tsukiji fish market. She brought her cute little 2-year-old son Max (Makkusu, in Japanese) along.

Max posing for the camera as Karen looks on proudly

We had a very fresh sushi breakfast at a popular sushi shop. There's apparently a perpetual queue at the shop but we didn't have to queue cos Karen knew the boss! Got in through the back door. :) Check out the queue on a Monday morning!

Shop was tiny. Seats about 12 people around a counter with 3 sushi chefs behind the counter. We didn't order anything. The chef made kind of an introductory platter for us...he would just dump the sushi in front of us as he finished making it. There was fatty tuna, sea urchin (my first time! very fresh, no smell), squid, prawn, anago (conger eel...very good, I like!), a few other types of sushi, a slab of sweet egg, and miso soup. Very generous servings of fish on the sushi...

After breakfast, we walked around the market for Karen (now a domesticated mother) to do her weekly groceries shopping.

Check it out...squid ink ice-cream! It was yummy!