{"id":165,"date":"2003-11-13T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/parties\/200311132323.html"},"modified":"2008-12-21T22:25:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T13:25:58","slug":"xaviers-trip-to-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/13\/xaviers-trip-to-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier&#8217;s trip to Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/xavier2003\/crw_4631_std\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/albums\/xavier2003\/crw_4631_std.thumb.jpg\"  alt=\"xavier\" \/><\/a>Xavier dropped by Tokyo for a couple of days and it was really great to see him again, to see he didn&#8217;t change and even better to see what he&#8217;s accomplished in our headquarters in Paris, thanks to his great vision of things and his unique character!<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant we went to is the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.douraku.co.jp\/\">Kani Douraku<\/a>, where each and every dish is based on crab.<br \/> I especially liked the kani sashimi (raw crab), the taste is so much different than when it&#8217;s cooked, it&#8217;s hardly believable.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Jean-Paul had a hard time there, as he cannot eat crab at all!<\/p>\n<p>A quick word on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/xavier2003\">pictures<\/a>, from a technical point of view: they were taken with my 50mm f1.4 again (I will never say it enough: this lens is a-ma-zing) under ambient light at ISO 400, that&#8217;s why the depth of field is so shallow.<br \/> The rest of the merit goes to the camera itself, the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.canon.jp\/Imaging\/EOS10D\/\">Canon EOS 10D<\/a>, which produces almost noise-free pictures at high ISO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier dropped by Tokyo for a couple of days and it was really great to see him again, to see he didn&#8217;t change and even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}