Dosukoi

Ronnie and I had dinner with my friend Ayako and her husband, Moro-chan, at Kappo Yoshiba in Ryogoku, Tokyo. The restaurant provides chankonabe, a Japanese stew commonly eaten in vast quantities by sumo wrestlers as part of their weight gain diet. 

Yoshiba was remodeled from the former sumo training stable and there is a dohyo, the ring in which sumo wrestling bouts are held, in the center of the restaurant. After dinner, the customers are allowed to enter the dohyo once they changed their shoes to zori, a flat and thonged Japanese sandals.

The chankonabe was delicious. We were told that the chanko we shared with four people was actually less amount than a single sumo wrestler normally eats. No wonder they are so big!