The scene opens with a description of the food served at a restaurant in palau, a small coastal town in northeastern Japan. The food is described in great detail, and we are told that the restaurant serves a variety of seafood, including man-grove crab, giant clams, mangrove crab, and "dullhead wrasse" . We are also told that "sama" , the restaurant's owner, is very good at her job, and that the food is prepared with "the utmost confience" in the "quality of lob ter" on its own. We learn that the "chef" has the utmost "confi ence" and "promise" in his ability to "stand on tage" with the "best of them" while delivering a "performance few singers could dream of ." We are told, however, that this is not the case with the shrimp, which are "ugly abom imaginations" with "no redeeming features ." The narrator then inquires about the whereabouts of the "keeper" of the restaurant, and he is told that he is looking for "Kitahara." He is further informed that "he looks for her" and that "everything's a-ok." The scene ends with the narrator complaining about the food and the food's appearance. He is upset that he has been "screwed out" of a "date with a model," and he blames the "bastard son" of "a bitch" for the situation. He says that he was just "stoked to be here" and went "a little nuts" to be at the restaurant.