what do you see?

On the strength of another recommendation from a student, we went out to a Belgian bar/cafe called Paul's Cafe last night. It's in a very non-descript basement corridor underneath the Century Royal Hotel (the kind of hotel homage to the 70s that Japan does so well) near Sapporo station. Run by a friendly Belgian guy from Antwerp, it offers a pretty authentic Belgian experience, with loads of imported bottled beers and few on tap too, and some good food which is hard to find elsewhere - including rotisserie chicken and rabbit stew. Apparently the tables are imported from Belgium too. But it always amuses me that even a very authentic place like this has to make certain concessions to being in Japan: oshibori in plastic wrappers, iced water and small wicker baskets containing cutlery are never absent!