Maru.

This super dark image is from inside a 2nd fl bar in Korea town that my friend Zachary and I visited. It was surprisingly affordable for a such a seemingly swank place. We had Sapporos and some tuna tataki. We came here after visiting Kitano, some fancy hotel for fancy japanese businessmen. Luckily the bartender there was Z's comrade, so we got pretty good treatment. We didn't have to pay the cover to watch some fat white guy blow his horn. He actually prefaced one song with, "This song is dedicated to me." Who dedicates a song to themselves? The sophisticated crowd didn't know when to clap over his sophisticated riffs. Z's bartender buddy took it upon himself to orchestrate the clapping from behind the bar. All in all, a good time was had by all. Oh yeah, highlight was the bartender relating a story of how he knocked out a tae kwon do blackbelt in a barfight. Granted, the blackbelt was a friend of his who was very drunk. I'd be proud of such a KO meself.