Monthly Archives: June 2009

Tonight I was finally able to get to a sushi bar. On my first trip to Japan, the first place I ate was a sushi bar. The second time I came same thing. This time I wasn’t able to, but I did finally make it to the same place I went on my first and second trips. Sushizanmai is a chain of sushi bars located in Tokyo, the original is located in Tsukiji fish market. Although it is a chain don’t be fooled the sushi here is top notch. We ventured to the one located near Monzen-Nakacho station. It’s a small little place with seating for only ten located exclusively at the bar. Sushi is priced per piece and ranges in price from $1 to $5.00 per piece.

Although I can’t really go into much detail on how each piece tasted, all the sushi was delicious. There is a freshness there that can’t be replicated anywhere I’ve been to in America. Even at Sushi Ran, my favorite place in the states for sushi, it cannot match up with this place. I feel there is a Japanese sensibility and a way of preparing food specifically for Japanese people that makes it taste better.

To many in the west, Gucci, is a luxury clothing outfit, it produces sought after shoes, bags, clothing, and accessories. However, did you know that they also make chocolate and have food operations? Located at the Gucci building in Ginza, is one of only two Gucci cafes in existence, the other being in Gucci’s flagship store in Milan. Dressed in a color pallet the matches their stores, and sculpted in a minimalist contemporary style, the cafe exudes the feeling of luxury.

The cafe serves mostly desserts and some lighter fare. I had the seasonal tart, which had a topping of grapefruit, and was served with a honey sorbet. The plating was very elegant, yet still simple. The tart itself was fantastic. At first one would think that grapefruit would be too tart to have as the only fruit on the dish, but these were not that tart at all. The crust was perfect it had enough structure to hold everything in place, but was soft enough to cut with a fork without much effort. Below the fruit was a cream base that give the grapefruit that additional sweetness to offset the minor tartness of it.

The honey sorbet was magical, and has now replaced vanilla as a basic flavor that I enjoy. It was the perfect balance of a vanilla flavor with just a hint of honey in it. While eating it the first sensation is that of vanilla and as you swallow the honey flavor spread though the mouth.

Final Rating: 10/10
This was the perfect dessert. Everything was perfectly executed, the taste was just the way it should be.

Had lunch in Ginza today at Fujiya Restaurant inside the Fujiya building. Although we were in ritzy Ginza, the food that was served was closer to a family restaurant than anything else. Family restaurants are a class of restaurants where service isn’t the same as a regular restaurant where you pay at the table, rather you go and pay at the front. Also the menu is usually always western in scope, which is another defining element.

I ended up ordering an omelet rice, which consists of a catsup style fried rice covered in a plain egg omelet with a little bit demi glace on top. The dish also came with a side of beef stew. The omurice it self was okay, rice lacked flavor and richness. The egg was well prepared and the sauce on top matched well with the flavors of the rice.

I ended up enjoying the beef stew more. The sauce that was in it was very rich and had a great depth of flavor. It contained some gnocchi or potato dumplings, carrots, broccoli, and beef. The vegetables were cooked perfectly and the beef was melt in your mouth tender. The bland starchy gnocchi complemented the rich sauce and give it balance.

For a drink I had a chocolate frappe type drink. I’m not sure exactly what was in it, but I believe it was blended with some kind of nuts or coca nibs. It was topped with an chocolate ice cream, and some whipped cream. The whip cream was extremely dense. The consistency was almost like custard, but it had a great mouth feel. The ice cream was very creamy too, it was soft, but not like a gelato. The actual drink itself on first taste seemed like it had bananas in it, but I could not confirm. Attempting it drink it was also a challenge, it was thick, which made it difficult to drink with a straw.

Final Rating: 8/10
Most of the food was good, the filling in the omurice was the only stumbling block. I feel like the version I make tastes better. Other than that it was a good meal.

In the morning I picked up a quick snack to eat from Family Mart (I can see a trend emerging here). It was a can of coffee and a yakiniku onigiri. The coffee was good, it was sweetened with cream and sugar so it wasn’t bitter at all. The yakiniku onigiri was okay. The rice was cooked well, but the filling’s flavor was really strong. Its a good thing that there wasn’t a lot of it or it would have been too overbearing.

Final rating:
Boss Coffee: 8/10
As far as canned coffee goes it was good.

Yakiniku onigiri: 7/10
The strong flavors made it hard to give this a higher score. The only thing that saved it was there wasn’t a lot of the filling.

Overall: 7.5/10
A decent morning snack to get the gears going.

In the evening the rain finally let up and I headed to Shibuya to check out the sights, and of course get something to eat. I met up with a friend and we ended up going to a place we’ve been before. The cuisine of the restaurant was Japanese, and was great to have a nice hot meal. I started off with a glass of apple juice, which in japan is more like an apple flavored soft drink. For dinner I got a fry place with half a tonkatsu, kani cream croquette, and two pieces of friend shrimp. It also came with rice, miso soup, and some braised root vegetables. I added an onsen tamago along with it.
The miso soup was good, though it could have used a little bit more salt. The veggies were alright as well. I was a little disappointed with the onsen tamago though, the center had coagulated and it was not runny at all. However, the flavor was there, it was served with a little sauce which I am guessing is composed a little dashi and soy sauce. On the entree the fried foods all had been fried and breaded nicely. Although for the shrimp the batter was a bit too thick for my taste which resulted in less shrimp. The kani cream croquette was a little bland, I could mostly taste the cream sauce, but very little crab. The tonkatsu was by far my favorite. It was moist and tender and tasted great with the sauce.

Final Rating: 7.5/10
The food was good. Though some items could have been better.

While summer in California means heat, beaches, great weather, and if your in San Francisco it means cold, and fog. In japan it means overbearing heat, humidity, and the rainy season. The month of june brings an almost unending supply of rain to the country, and a blanket clouds that seem to never break. The night I arrived it seemed pleasant enough no rain, mild heat, and a slight breeze. Today I awoke to rain, and giant wall of humidity. This really didn’t motivate me to get out and see the city. So I stayed in caught up on some writing and again went to the trusty Family Mart to get some lunch.

Today was a lot better then yesterday as far as selection. There was a good supply of almost everything on the shelves. So I picked up a couple of onigiri, a bag of chips, sushi set, and a drink.

The drink I picked up was called Paradise Tropical Tea, it described itself as “A choice blend of natural premium teas and tropical fruit taste”. I’ll believe the first part, but I didn’t taste the fruit described in the second. Instead I got some floral taste to it, which is something I associate with a more herbal tea, so getting that flavor profile with a black tea is something that was strange. It tasted good, though it was unsweetened which is another thing that surprised me. Usually when I see fruit in a tea I expect it to be slightly to really sweet, this was neither.

Next up the two onigiri. I picked up a salmon, and a tuna mayo one. These were really great. A big step up from yesterday. The rice was nicely cooked and the fillings were great. The nori had lost its crispness since there packaging was not the kind that that separates the nori from the rice. I tried the tuna mayo first, the filling looked brown so that was my first sign that it wasn’t only tuna and mayonnaise. It turned out to be soy sauce. The combination was really good the saltiness of the soy sauce and the richness of the mayo combined well with the tuna. The only complain I had was that I wish there was more tuna in it. The salmon onigiri was also good. Its’ consistency was different the usually flakiness that I’ve come to expect from a salmon onigiri. This one was a little more moist similar to the tuna mayo.

Afterwards I began on the sushi set. It consisted of two pieces of inari, two tamagoyaki nigiri, and two different maki rolls. Like the onigiri the rice was nicely cooked. However, the flavoring of the rice was kind of bland. There wasn’t a good vinegar or sweet taste to it. The inari was okay just like I expected, better than equivalents you can get in the states. The egg in the tamagoyaki was good, nice and moist with a good level of sweetness. The two maki were okay there was little in the center.

Finally there were the chips. The flavor was Grilled chicken and Garlic. Calbee is a brand of chips that I am very familiar with. They are usually sold in many Japanese markets in San Francisco as well as other places in the city. The taste was great, it had that flavor of grilled chicken but without a strong meaty taste that some chips have. The garlic flavor was also good, it wasn’t overpowering. The primary taste you got was of the chicken seasoning flavor, then at the end you got just a hint of garlic.

Final Rating
Paradise Tropical Tea: 7/10
Flavor was good, but didn’t live up to expectations and promises on the label.

Salmon Onigiri: 7/10
Average for a salmon onigiri.

Tuna Mayo Onigiri: 8/10
I enjoyed the combination of the tuna, soy sauce, and mayo.

Sushi set: 7.5/10
As a whole the set was a lot better than what you could pickup at Safeway. I would say it was about the same or marginally better than what you could get at a Japanese market in Japantown. The variety in ingredients was nice.

Calbee grilled chicken and garlic potato chips: 8.5/10
These were really good. After eating over three quarters of the bag the flavor became too intense, it was a little hard for my palette to finish the rest.

Overall: 7.5/10
This was a big step up from yesterdays choices, I can see why the things I choose yesterday were the last on the shelf. The food I had today was what I was expecting to see from a combini. Nothing really blew my mind, but everything was good, or great.

After the flight from the states and the long train ride from the airport, I was really too tired to go look for food. Fortunately there was a combini literally a block away from the place I am staying. The great thing about these places is they are everywhere open 24 hours and stock a good selection of snack foods. This is definitely a boon for high density Tokyo where there are a lot of small apartments some with little or no kitchen. It’s definitely a staple for the single guy who cant cook, which seems common in Japan, if not in the entire world.

When I got there the selection was a little sparse, my guess I was a little early for the restocking truck to come by. Combini usually restock several times a day, they keep on hand quantities low to insure freshness of the product. At most there is usually 10 of a single item, for popular things like onigiiri, and average of 3-5 for other food products.

I picked up a bottle of lemon water, a onigiri, and a melon pan. The lemon water is by far one of my favorite drinks I have come across. It is a slightly sweet, slightly lemony drink. All the major Japanese drink manufacturers have their own brands and I’ve tried them all, but my favorite of all of them is the House Wellness brand of the stuff. It has just the right combination that I am looking for. Sadly for me, when I’m in the states they rarely import the stuff, so it’s really difficult to find. Strangely almost all the other brands are available at one time or another.

The onigiri was the only one they had in stock. Onigiri are rice balls with filling inside of them and wrapped in nori or some other product like beefsteak leaves, though they aren’t always shaped like balls, usually you see them as triangles. They’re portable easy to eat and cheap. I’m not exactly sure what it was when I had it, but it had a tart taste to it. I think it was on the shelf for a while because the rice had gotten all mooshy and gummy so it was kind of hard to eat, the filling was good though. As a side note, the Japanese markets in America also sell onigiri too, but they are horrible at packaging. They tried to replicate the packaging done in japan to separate the nori wrapper from the rice to keep it crisp until serving, but when you try an open the american version it always breaks the nori apart, Japanese wrapping doesn’t seem to have this problem. This is due to the placement of the stickers on the american version and also the materials used in said sticker don’t tear easily as Japanese counter parts.

Finally was the melon pan, this is one of those strange Japanese dishes the emerged as their unique take on western foods. Contrary to the name most melon pan does not have any melon in it. The name comes from the shape of the bread which resembles a melon. Melon pan consists of two parts a sweet bread at the core similar to a sweet dinner roll and the outer crust which similar to a cookie. Due to the different cooking times for the different parts the outer cookie crust never fully cooks through which results in a sticky outer layer. The melon pan I had tasted like many of the prepackaged breads available in the states, kind of dry and not fresh. That lack a freshness I feels is part of all the preservatives that are usually included in packaged items to extend their shelf life. Even though I don’t think that any of the items on the shelf have been made more than a day ago. Maybe it was the jet lag or maybe just after all the food and drink from the flight, but I couldn’t finish it.

Final rating
Lemon Water: 10/10
I love the stuff, its perfect.

Onigiri: 5/10
The filling was good, but I couldn’t get past the texture and consistency of the gummy rice.

Melon Pan: 5/10
I’m not a big fan of packaged breads. The melon pan was dry and bland, it tasted too similar to the dinner roll I had on my flight over to japan.

Overall: 6.5/10
Originally I was going to give it a 5.5, but I’m going to give some of it the benefit of the doubt. Due to the flight and the lack of appetite I think my taste buds were just tired out.

Initial Impressions.

The plane that I took was a Boeing 777-300ER this is one of the newest planes in ANA’s fleet until they receive the 787 Dreamliner sometime in 2010. The cabin is divided into 4 sections, first class, business class, premium economy, and economy. I had booked an economy seat. Unfortunately I was unable to upgrade. Another thing during checking I was asked if would like to have my seat changed to an isle, I agreed, but If I had stuck with my original seat I would have had a seat with a bulkhead in front giving me more leg room, I was unaware of this until I sat down. I am not very happy that they didn’t make me aware of this when they asked me if I wanted to change seats, otherwise I would have kept my original seat, but again I digress.

Seat and Entertainment

The seats in economy were above average. Each seat had a built in LCD tv, by my estimates it is a 7 inch screen. I feel like they could have had a much larger screen, the bezel surrounding it is at least an inch thick in 3 directions and 2.5 inches thick in one more.If they made the bezel thinner I could see them squeezing an 11 inch screen into the same space.Each seat also came with a pull down hook to hang items on, my guess is that most common use would be to hang the head phones. All seats came with a blanket, pillow and headphones. The front pocket was a decent size. Allowing me to place my 13-inch macbook pro along with my kindle 2, and ipod comfortably, along with the standard info magazines and documents. The tray table had a nice cup holder built-in that allowed their special cups to fit snugly in. I really like this feature and wish all airlines had this implemented. It feels far more stable then the tiny dent thats found on other carriers. Especially during turbulence it feels more stable.

Although on the ANA website they do not report it, each seat in economy comes with a full audio-video on demand setup (AVOD). I personally do not like how they located the control system for the AVOD. The controller is located directly underneath the armrest. You access by lifting the top of the arm rest exposing the controller and a button to release it. This isn’t necessarily a problem, but ANA decided to make a hole on top of the arm rest that allows access to some common buttons; volume and channel control, overhead light, and attendant call buttons. I can see where they were going with this, but the hole they made is so big that its hard to rest your elbow on there without jamming it in there. This made it somewhat harder to use the armrest itself which is pain, especially on a 10 hour+ flight. I think they could do a better job if they repositioned the controls, perhaps closer to where your hand would rest.

Programming choices were pretty good. It is comparable to JAL. There were many english movies available, and a decent selection of japanese titles. Although there were a lot of movies available, there was sadly a limited selection of television shows to watch. Browsing categories, there a complete lack of a comedy category, which was quite surprising. I personally would have liked to watch some comedy or sitcoms, it might have raised my spirits. There were a couple titles featuring japan that were in english. I believe they were produced by ANA and it definitely had some poor production value. The english translation was horrible, and it seems like it was intentional. I didn’t check out the games section, but it seemed to have a decent list of games you could play.

One final note on seat an entertainment. I think that all airlines should follow Virgin America’s entertainment model. Not only do they have power outlets in each seat (this includes economy), but they have a USB port to charge your accessories. The only thing that would make it better is if your could directly control the ipod through the planes AVOD system. What makes this more sad is that that Virgin America is a domestic airline. International flights should have all this stuff as a minimum. My hope is that ANA and others will adopt this when the new generation of planes and seat configurations comes, but considering the fact that the “New Style” was recently introduced a couple years ago, I have a feeling we’ll have a long wait, at least for ANA.

Food and Beverage Service

Shortly after takeoff they pass out newspapers and had a beverage and snack service. Nothing big to report here. They had a good selection of alcohol and other beverages. I ordered a Asahi beer and some green tea. The beer selection was good. They had four different beers to choose from, Asahi, Sapporo, Kirin, and Suntory They also had red, white and sparkling wines. I have not had these yet, but plan on sampling them before the flight ends. The snack that was served was senbei. One thing I would like to report on, the combination of beer and sembei is perfect. I honestly never tried the two before, mainly because I’ve never had both at the same time. The saltiness of and crunch of the senbei is the perfect complement to beer.

About 30 minutes after beverage service lunch was served.There were two options. The full list of items included from clockwise, somen noodles, dinner roll, bottle of spring water, seafood salad, olive, bell peppers, mozzarella balls and sun dried tomatoes in a pesto sauce, katsu curry, rice, and broccoli. Before I get into the review of each item i’d like to point out that at higher at flight the taste buds become less sensitive so you might the food that I tasted here could be far worse.

The first item I tried was the somen noodles. It came with a packet of sauce, nori, and wasabi. The noodles themselves seemed slightly over cooked. The texture and size was similar to spaghetti that has been overcooked. This means the noodles weren’t as thin as somen usually is. One thing to note on this I am assuming it is somen, it could very well be something that ANA has though up themselves. The sauce that was provided was sweeter than normal. I am assuming that it was designed for international customers. Overall the dish was tasty. It had a decent flavor, I would have more of the soy flavor to come out. Next is the dinner roll, it came slightly chilled which is not really a surprised, but It would have been nice if it was warm. The roll was okay. It seemed very light, but was dry. It felt like a very dry piece of bread. Next dish was was what seemed like an appetizer. It consisted of a seafood salad, grilled “chicken”. olive, bell peppers, mozzarella and tomatoes in a pesto sauce. The seafood salad had a taste that I can only describe as strange. I’m not sure exactly what kind of mayonnaise they used, but it gave the whole thing a strange taste. The artificial crab meat that was used also had a bad texture to it. It felt rubbery and had no flavor at all. The grilled chicken was more like a Chicken McNugget than a piece of chicken, at least it had a grill marks. The mozzarella was okay, although the texture was a little gummy. The pesto sauce was kind of bland.

Finally comes the katsu curry. It contained a single piece of broccoli that looked unappetizing and I am sure was over cooked. The katsu itself was decently cooked, but the breading was soggy. I think fried foods should never be served on an airline for the simple fact that it will never be crispy. It would have been much better if they had chosen a beef curry, at least then there wouldn’t be the expectation of something crispy. The curry sauce it self was a sweet variety, but again kind of bland. The rice held up pretty well and had a decent consistency.

The dessert was Haagen-Dazs ice cream. This would have been a nice treat, but mine was frozen solid. I was barely able to eat it. This seemed to be a common trend around me. A lot of people had hard ones, some though theirs was actually manageable. The only flavor they had was vanilla, but the flavor was off. I don’t know if it was frozen or the altitude, but it tasted slightly stale.

I had the sparkling wine with it, and the taste was okay. It was on the sweet side even though it was a brut. I could classify it closer to a blanc de blanc or even a demi-sec.The taste was similar to a fruity ginger ale.

A second snack service was served before the final meal. The snack was different this time. Instead of senbei it was a “Snack Mix”. The only difference being the snack mix contained some almonds and pretzels. For the most part it was still sembei.

The final meal, which i guess is another lunch consisted of a tuna and carrot salad mix, a melon and pineapple fruit salad, and penne pasta with a tomato sauce. I began with the tuna salad. By itself it tasted too much like canned tuna, with a strong fishy taste, the smell was more on the mild side. It was not that pleasing to eat. However, once it was combined with the pepper cream sauce that came with the meal it tasted a lot better. The creamy and tangy sauce blanced out the fishy taste, similar to what a mayo would do. Next up is the fruit salad, this was definately a safe bet you cant really mess up the fruit. Finally there was the pasta. Again the pasta was over cooked (I prefer al dente), but the sauce was good. The cheese they put on top was a solid mass, and I am not sure but I think there was some type of meat in the sauce maybe in the form of a sausage.

Comparing the two meal services I think the second meal was the better of the two. Though the second one had its share of problems, there were far less then that of the first meal. Most of the items were simply prepared and thus had less chance of messing up. The first meal also had a concept problem. At first I thought it was a Japanese meal based on the somen-like noodles and the katsu curry, but then there was the other dish with the pesto sauce and it just seemed like a strange fit. Also I don’t think there needed to be a dinner roll. There was already a lot of carbs from the noodles and rice, just adding more with bread seemed like overkill. I would have preferred another vegetable dish instead of the bread.

Final Impressions

After spending over 10 hours on this flight, I again feel it should be illegal to cram this many people into this small of a space. The seats themselves are the biggest problem. They are very hard and provide little to no lower back support. With the use of the pillow that is provided it becomes slightly better. I am not really of fan of how this plane is configured. I don’t think the new four class setup is really work it. I think it would be just as good if they made the seat pitch slightly better. I am still not a fan of the location of the AVOD control. That hole in the armrest makes it very uncomfortable to put your elbow on. Meal service was rather slow. Row 28 was the last to be served. Overall the meals were so so. Some thing were good others were bad. I am still not sure what kind of theme that was suppose to occur throughout the first meal. Would I fly ANA again? Well I really don’t have a choice in that matter. But after this entire trip is complete I’m not sure. Between JAL and ANA I feel that JAL has a slightly better set of features. I enjoy the overall design of the business class on JAL compared to ANA. Economy is pretty similar, but just because of the seat design I would prefer JAL. Thats not to say that ANA is not a good airline. I think the quality stands above american carriers, how it fares against other foreign carries is a different story.

Conclusion and Rating

Food: 7/10
Food was better than average, free booze is always good on such a long flight

Seats: 6/10
Seats were decent, its really a personal preferance about the armrest thing. The poor lower back support really killed me.

Entertainment: 7/10
THe new 3D flight tracker is neat, I wish it were interactive though. Variety of entertainment was good. Wish they had more recent TV shows. The interface was not intuitive. Lack of clear way to turn off the screen

Overall: 7/10
Not a bad experience. Food service was slow at times, and lack of information during checkin resulting in me switching to a seat that was worse then what I originally had. ANA is not a bad way to go, but If I had to do it all over again I would probably have chosen JAL, but again that all comes down to personal preferences. I would like to try out the dreamliner when it rolls off the assembly line to see if they have made any improvements.

Additional photos are located here on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/14872551@N04//sets/72157619934030269

I decided to have a last taste of home before I left, so I went to Lori’s Diner. SFO international terminal is a great looking building. Large air concourse makes the building feel larger than it really is. One minor gripe I have is that there should be more power outlets available, but I think this is the case for all airports I’ve visited. It is a symmetrical setup with a small food court at either end. The food court is comprised of real restaurants that exist in San Francisco. Lori’s is located at the north food court, close to the BART station.
For anyone whose been to Lori’s in the city this is pretty much the exact same thing. I do believe that the menu is a lot smaller. The big plus is that they serve a good old fashion breakfast. I ordered the two eggs any style with over easy eggs, sausage, hash browns, and sourdough toast. I usually choose over easy eggs over sunny side up at these kind of places because the short order cooks usually don’t cook sunny side long enough and you end up with a lot of raw egg whites, but I digress.
The breakfast was decent nothing spectacular, but not horrible either. Everything felt a little under cooked, or should I say cooked to the minimum level. There was little to no browning on the hash browns so they were soft and mushy. There was the same problem with the toast. It was slightly toasty, but lacked the little crunch that I usually like. The sausage was kind of bland, and uninteresting. It lacked fat and a good natural casing. The eggs were pretty much the only thing that I thought was cooked well.
Below is a photo of what the food looked like.

It’s been a while, but i’ve finally making another trip back to Japan. This will be one of the more interesting trips to Japan I will be taking, and unlike any other ones that have occurred before. For one I’ll be renting a place. The last couple times I’ve been lucky enough to be able to stay at a friends place, but this time my luck as run out. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, but its going to hamper some convinces that I had before. Since I don’t speak Japanese, and understand very little I think this will be a big challenge for me. I of course will have my personal translator with me, but it wont be all the time.
Secondly, this will is going to be my first “touristy” type trip. The last couple times I have been I never really did the tourist thing. It is one of the pet peeves I have about traveling, is avoid the touristy stuff. I really hate tourist in my city, and I feel that maybe other locals would feel the same way, even if they are in a foreign country. I won’t be going really extreme on this front, but I will be traveling outside of Tokyo more. I’m going to be inside Japan longer than I have been before so I’m hoping this extra time there will give me an opportunity to see a lot more.
This blog has always been about food, and like before I’m going to try to blog about the unique food experiences that I have had. This time however, I’m going to try and blog about every single piece of food that I have eaten here. The last few times I had chosen a specific topic to focus on during my stay. Last time is was conbini store foods, and before that it was fine dining. This time I’m going to try and strike a balance between the two.
I will also be looking more at traditional Japanese foods. The last few times I had been in Japan, I don’t really think I was eating that many “Japanese” food items. Sure I had some great international food which I don’t think I could get anywhere else, but I don’t remember eating that much Japanese food. I find this kind of strange because I regularly cook it at home. I hope that when I do get to try these foods in their native country that I will gain a better reference point to replicate the flavors that I have try so hard to get right. When I cook Japanese food, I feel like I’m always missing something, it’s not so obvious to me right now what that thing is, but I know is not there.
So for anyone who actually reads this blog I hope that you will enjoy my daily updates with plenty of pictures. The first in this series will be SFO airport food and the food on ANA during my trip to Japan.