A couple of pictures from my Japan trip...

This meal is called shabu shabu. Beef steak is sliced paper thin and swished in a boiling pot of water. There are also vegetables to cook in the boiling pot. You dip the beef in a vinegar-soy sauce. It is excellent.

The waitress at this restaurant wore a kimono as a uniform.  It is rare to see a women wearing a kimono in Japan anymore. Most of the young women can't even put one on by themselves.

I am on the left. The waitress is in the middle and my friend Ross is on the right.