Octopus in Tokyo

So I , my three colleagues , our Japanese colleague and the client (a Japanese speaking American) sat down for lunch in a Japanese pizza shop. Since we didn't know anything about the pizzas served there, I let our client order. He ordered one sea food pizza, ( I came to know that when I saw shells on top of the pizza). "This will be the first time that my food has sea-shells on it" I told everyone.

So we started eating and having conversation about food in India, US and Japan etc. "This pizza has a lot of different sea food pieces" told the American . I took the next piece of the seafood and asked our Japanese colleague "What food Japanese people normally eat?". "Rice and a lot of seafood" he answered. My next question :"Do Japanese people eat Octopus? " he said yes. I asked so how does it taste? He said "The last piece that you ate and complained that it was difficult to chew, was Octopus". "OH!" i said. He then showed me another piece in my pizza which was octopus. "OK", i said and just for curiosity's sake I asked, "And what is this white piece ?" ... "That is squid" informed my Japanese colleague as a matter of fact.

So today I ate an octopus, shell ,squid and shrimp in a single pizza. For a Japanese its all in a day's food, but for an Indian, its like eating all the animals of the world in one meal.













Octopus and Squid: