Japanese Garden and Great Barbeque in Philadelphia

I was asked to represent my company’s department at a business convention meeting last month in Philadelphia. I frequently volunteer for these things because it gives me the opportunity to tour the country for free. And it breaks things up at work, although I only go about twice a year I really like the opportunity to get out of town. And yeah, generally I don’t get to do a lot of sight seeing or tourist sort of stuff but when I was sent to Philadelphia I took an extra day because I had never been there before and it wasn’t a standard location for our trips. There are two types of business travel I usually go on and one is our standard monthly meeting and one is a convention/seminar. These later ones are the semi annual meetings that are most exciting because they usually take me somewhere new while the monthly meetings are always in Dallas, Texas.

So, there I was at the nice Philadelphia hotel my company had booked me in and it was my final day in town. All of my work responsibilities were finished and I was free to explore and do whatever I wanted. So, naturally my first stop was to enjoy a real cheese steak sandwich and it turns out they are fabulous. I would return to the city for that reason alone. Unfortunately I passed by a place called Percy Street Barbeque right after I ate my sandwich and the smell alone brought back my appetite. I looked at the menu and decided I had to come back here so I walked around found out that Philadelphia is really a beautiful city.

I found Fairmount Park, by the way Philadelphia is full of beautiful parks and gardens, and explored Shofuso, which is a Japanese house and garden. It was absolutely gorgeous and there was an overwhelming sense of harmony surrounding it that fell on my as I approached. The landscape itself invited a state of both calm and inspiration as the colors and shapes made me feel almost as though I was walking into some sort of mystical paradise. I walked through as much of the city as I could all the while trying to gage my appetite. I wanted to create enough of one to enjoy a full meal but not too much of one from too great a distance, which might make me succumb to the aromas of other places. I guess I timed it just right because that night I had the best barbeque of my life.

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