Earthquakes and Cold Noodles

The one thing I hate about weekends in Tokyo is that the place is just too crowded. Wherever you go, it seems that the rest of the Japanese population has got there first. It just gets right on my tits at times, but why rage about it now, I hear you ask. Well it was all down to lunch. At 2pm I met my friend for lunch in Ikebukuro, quite late I thought, there shouldn't be many people around. How wrong I was, at every place we went there were massive queues. After plodding around for half an hour, we gave up and joined the nearest queue, which turned out to be a Chinese style noodle shop and as it was hot and humid as usual I went for the cold version.
They were excellent and just what I needed to cool down both mind and body. To top it all off there was another plus 4 earthquake at three.