It all started innocently enough with a trip to Hiroshima to visit my grandmother (the tiniest and cutest little 89yr old woman ever - hence forth referred to as Obaachan). After some fam jam visiting, my Obaachan's next door neighbour (a stately looking 65 yr old man) invited Hannah, myself and my cousin (Hiromi) for dinner [note: neither my father, nor his wife was invited... warning flag?]
My Obaachan's neighbour's friend came to join us at the restaurant and even at first glance we could tell that we were in for an interesting night. This guy looked like an Asian Tony Soprano (hence forth referred to as Soprano-san), was wearng a jacket that resembled a bin-liner and proceeded to order everthing on the menu, hit on my cousin, and order round upon round of drinks for us all and pay for all of our meals. Despite his huge and rather intimidating appearance, Soprano-san seemed pretty harmless and kind of a baller (although he did awkwardly interrogate me about the difference between Canadian and Japanese toilets? - warning flag #2)
After dinner it was decided that we should all go to karaoke place for a "snack" (warning flag #3). On our way, my limited Japanese was able to decipher that Soprano-san is actually a YAKUZA BOSS (the Yakuza are the Japanese mafia).... UMMM.... WHAT?!?!?! (warning flags #4-12876923)
The Karaoke bar actually turns out to be a tiny mobster-run hostess bar filled with the asian version of the entire cast of Goodfellas. There we were treated like royalty, drank nothing but the best, and were waited on hand a foot by a line-up of models/wenches. Mid-way through this hilarity Soprano-san took a short break from drunkenly ogling Hannah's ta-tas and my legs to take a phone call which was immediately followed by the arrival of a man who got on his knees and bowed in front of him, received a black leather purse (even the mafia here has bad style) and then exited the building?? The singing (Soprano-san had the voice of an angel??), drinking and hilarity continued for what must have been hours until we all stumbled into cabs and went home.
Seriously... I cannot even make this stuff up.
Absolutely ridiculous... we would put up the picture for fear of turning up at the bottom of a river somewhere outside Tokyo!
