Peter’s Japanese teacher in Switzerland asked him to bring her back a bag of tea from a renown tea house in Tsukiji, where the world-famous fish market is. It’s just a few stops away from mom’s apartment, so we went there one morning during our stay in Tokyo. Mom has warned us that the market will be packed with last minuite shoppers in search of best ingredients for traditional new year’s food. Nevertheless, we fought against the wave of crowds to see the busy shopping streets outside the fish market. It was indeed so crowded and chaotic that Peter no longer believed that the Japanese are polite.
