Taking things for granted

Last night I could no longer stand to eat any more Indian food, I decided to try and find an Italian restaurant. That proved to be quite difficult and the ones we did find were all in hotels which meant they would be quite expensive. Instead I settled for Japanese food thinking that some nice sushi a little sake and rice would be a perfect change. We sit down at this very nice Japanese restaurant with everyone bowing as we enter the place and greeting us with Japanese "hellos". The waiter brings us the menus and asks if he can make some recommendations on the menu, we say,"Sure why not". We're hoping he'll explain all the different types of raw fish and various of the delicacies we are used to in the States. This recommendation was more along the lines of "We don't have this and we don't have that", basically over half the menu they did not have. Not only did they have very little raw fish they had no sake (they were out) and no Japanese Beer (apparently the owner of UB has a lock on the beer industry here and only allows Fosters to be imported). Overall the meal wasn't that bad but it sure wasn't what I was hoping and it was not even on the same planet as what I get at Tokie's or Honda's back home.