Last night, I think I ate all of the remaining food in Tokyo. The restaurant is called Chanto, and it was amazing. It all started with a cold appetizer of fish/vinegar, then sashimi (some of the best raw fish I have ever had in my life, including Tuna, Bonito, and many others). I finished one plate, and then they would bring out more (squid, lamb, more fish, rice). For (I think) about four hours, they just kept bringing out the food, until we were finally served a wonderful dessert - traditional Japanese jelly + ice cream, then a puff pastry, then mango cream pudding, another kind of pudding I cannot remember...and yes, I used chopsticks as much as possible.
What made the dinner even more enjoyable were the people. I ate dinner with the Saza Investment company's management team, as well as my friend Tomo and a new friend who is a professional trader in Tokyo. These people were the very best. I could probably write on and on, but I will simply say a few short words below after I post the link to the Saza (in Japanese) web page:
It is very rare indeed these days to find people who are primarily interested in the happiness and success of other people. Every single person at the dinner table last evening wanted to talk about only a few things:
1. How to help traders become more successful.
2. How to help traders through the challenge of acquiring discipline.
3. How to hold chopsticks.
Kofu-San, the president of Saza, told me: "We are a small trading firm right now. But we have made a specific decision that we will help people, one at a time. And if we do this, then the business will grow naturally."
Rare, indeed!
