"The nicest thing I have to say now is that I'm often wrong," he said wearily over a sushi lunch as he licked salmon roe from his fingertips.
The country's new 3 percent "consumption tax," a levy on everything from subway rides to apartment rents to sushi lunches goes into effect Saturday.
The five-hour 'sushi' trip leads to a Japanese-New Jersey community for sushi lunch ($100, not including food).
I had a light sushi lunch and headed over to the main Public Library on Fifth Street.
In a wealthy district where students think nothing of a pricey sushi lunch at the Kitchen Kabaret, there's a special place for the annual senior class party.
He was walking back to work along Third Avenue with two colleagues after a several-hundred-dollar sushi lunch.
A sushi lunch stand swayed and crashed to the floor, spilling water and live fish underfoot.
International Japan's new 3 percent "consumption tax," covering everything from subways to rents to sushi lunches, goes into effect today.
Over a sushi lunch one day, I watched the Syrian couple at the next table suck down six Scotches between them.