business dinner
Good eveing everyone,
Now sunday is coming here. How do you do? I am relaxing with listening to music and blogging.
As I told you before, I had business dinner yesterday to entertain the visitors from US branch. I read the previous entries of mine, and felt embarrassed because I was so nervous; Anyway, let me talk about it!
In the morning, my boss told me that he would not go to the dinner because he had a stomachache. Honestly I thought he should have not. He invited them for dinner and they spared time for him! well, I would say that after I got promotion!
After work I went to the hotel by train to pick up the visitors, and we went to the restaurant by taxi! haha. It's always nice to visit someone for business, not to host! Our taxi crawled through the jammed traffic because it was friday night.
Other people from my dept. already sat in the seats in the restaurant when we arrived. We let the visitors have seats in which they could show the beautiful view!:) The visitors were all excited to see the view from the 46th floor! I wish I had had a same seat.
As I was the organizer, I did everything, and it was 'well done' from self evaluation. I asked them what they would like to have, ordered drink, and served food to them. We could see Tokyo tower, Tokyo bay, high-ways which run through tall buildings. If it is the lunch time and clear day, you can see Mt. Fuji! Luckily they'd been to Tokyo tower for sightseeing before our meeting, so they reminded Tokyo tower and talked about it to us:)
Food was very nice. There's no denying that beautiful view decorated the good food as well. Here I would like to show the menu..
-Vegitables seasoned with Dashi soup
-Cold Tofu with dried bonito flakes (love it!)
-Japanese pancake with Kimchi(Korean pickles) and Octpus
-Sashimi (squid, tuna, and snapper)
-Grilled Chicken with Nagoya style
-Shabushabu (boiled pork and cabbage)
-Jyuwari Soba noodle (means Soba made from 100% soba flour)
-Japanese citrus icecream!(yam)
I wanted to have snapper but the other boss took the rest!!!! ahhh! I could say 'Having a spite because of the food will last for some time' quoted from a saying in Japan. I am just kidding though. Snapper is my favorite but I will wait for next time.
One of the visitors from US liked Sake very much. I ordered it 3 times for him, and we asked the label to take it back. The waiter put the label to the paper like a page of an album! We were very pleased to have that:) It was nice memory.
They said thank you to us many times, and liked the view and food so much! I am sure the dinner was very successful. Dear Amy, thank you for telling me some expressions. I will write back to you again in the weekend:)
I will talk to you later! See you and have a nice weekend:)
Comments
Good Afternoon Ms. Yumiko Iwamoto and everyone, First I would like to congratulate for business dinner. Excuse me about mistakes that I can do. I am student english , but the language is very difficult for me. In sunday I and my wife go to the park. When the weather is raining we go to cinema or we stay at home. In this case I try to study english. I access the Internet, I do my homework or a read a book. I would like to visit Japan and know the culture and habbits about the people. We listen many good things about japanese people. I am happy in participating of this blog. Have a nice weekend.
Hello Yumi! I am happy because your dinner was ok. I know that this situation can be a bit embarrassed. HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!
Hi Yumi, having guests with different culture and language is difficult task particularly when it’s related to one’s business, I’m glad to hear that you cope with it, you must be very good that they chose you for this difficult job, have a good weekends you deserve it .
Hi yami, nice to hear about success of your dinner with the americans. As i m from india i would like to hear about your india visit, have you seen Tajmahal. and one more thing i wanna know from u about yourd tips to take most out of the BBC english blog and website. Mady
You did a good job,indeed.A good organizer.I mean that in China,people often talk about business and reach a certain agreement when they are at table.This is a special culture of China that is different from western countries.
Hello Yumi! I´m glad to know that your business dinner was very successful :-). Moreover the menu sounds great, and the view... the view is perfect. I wish I could be there and saw this beautiful view from Japan. Have a nice Sunday, Ana Paula.
i think you are a good employee and i also think that you are good at english,do you think it is helpful when you speak english with foreign people . i mean is there any relationship in daily communication. i want to improve my spoken english, i want there is a day i can speak english very fluent like you !
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