Yesterday at around 10am, I hit the road for the long drive down to Okawa (Kyushu). I arrived at shortly after 3pm, and last night went out with Yuji Tanaka. This proved to be a very interesting evening. I will be heading off there this morning to see the Koi we have residing there.
We won't be buying any Koi on this occasion, but we guarantee that we will be buying some top Jumbo Tosai this Spring! Last night, Yuji-san expressed how pleased he is with how we have been raising their Koi in the UK, and as such, he and his brother had already discussed letting us have more this Spring.
As an aside to this, and to explain the photo... Yuji-san ordered some red wine. But, in Japan, they generally keep their red wine in the fridge with the white wine, and drink it chilled! Yuji-san asked them for a bucket of hot water to warm it up (I recently introduced him to room temperature wine!), but misunderstood him, and brought a bucket of ice! They were in disbelief when I asked the waitress to bring hot water instead! ;-)
