What? You are not supposed to drink at all if you are driving! ^^;;; I understand full well that restaurants earn most from drinks and I wish I could drink more too, but if you can’t take it, what can you do?! I realise two glasses is my limit…if I drink more than that I just feel sick afterwards. But two glasses is considered too little in restaurants…especially when drinking is such a big thing in Japanese social culture. I mean in Hong Kong, alcohol is not considered a must at dinner, while in Japan it is rare to have dinner with friends and not at least order a beer. You are treated with cold eyes if you don’t order wine in French/Italian restaurants - even though you order mineral water which costs almost as much as a glass of wine anyway.

I too feel annoyed by the constant pestering of waiters on wine, as if they secretly think “yeah right” when we told them from the very beginning that we’re weak drinker. It made you feel bad, cheap and improper…. Especially we have to drive home later here in LA…I’m tipsy already half glass.