Shinsengumi Yakitori ~ 18517 S. Western Avenue, Gardena, CA 90248 ~ Taco Map
If i stop to think about it, my obsession with japanese culture pretty much starts and ends with food (well ok, and perhaps shibuya gals and gatcha gatcha toys). but beyond that i don't have much interest in the stuff that most people like about japan - anime, martial arts, zen buddhist rites and flower arrangement... whenever i go there i never ask for directions to the nearest temple. rather, it's always "where's the nearest ramen shop?"
So it's somehow fitting that the restaurant at the end of the universe - my universe - is a yakitori joint. as such, when i fantasize about my old age (not that you could really call it fantasizing, more like, when i consider the grim inevitability of it) i invariably picture myself whiling away the years as "the guy at the end of the izakaya counter with his own personal bottle of sake, somewhere in a rice field in kyushu."
I'll be old and quite possibly irrelevant, but at least there'll be good food and um... young women who'll let me buy them Prada.