Message: | Shige is a complex guy. I suspect you've come on too strong, asking for things like naka-ochi toro, which he may have in short supply and wants to share with more customers. I've seen the negative reaction you describe when someone (maybe it was you) keeps ordering the rarities. So the "strike zone" at Shibucho, at least until you win Shige over, is somewhere above "know little" and below "know it all." Not saying this is the best way to run a restaurant. But it's the way Shige runs his.
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