I’d been anticipating dinner at the Irish House for more than a week. It’s an Irish pub in Shimbashi with all the right beers and a wonderful menu of potato-based foods. Potato bread, champ (mashed potatoes with bacon), stew. Mouthwatering just to think about it.
Think about it is all I can do now. We hadn’t been there in a long time. As we flipped through the newly designed menu, we discovered there were no Irish foods! No champ, no mushroom bread, no stew. The bartender confirmed it; “Japanese tastes, well….Irish food wasn’t so popular”
I looked around and realised that there weren’t as many Irish nationals in the place as there used to be. We ordered pints of Guinness and some appetizers–ravioli with yogurt sauce, shiitake garlic toast, and a mini plate of fish and chips. It just wasn’t the same, so we ate quickly and left.
Tonight, I will have to make mashed potatoes for dinner.
