Dinner tonight was a pleasant suprise. I went with Yu and Kichiya tonight. We walked to this section of town that just had little restaurants just lining the street. When I say little, they look like the conch bars in the Bahamas. They are wide open, no doors on most. I wish I would have taken a picture, I forgot I had my camera. They are all aware of the "Seafood Allergy". We walk down the row of restuarants and we choose one which I believe is called Danke-bros. http://www.danke-bros.co.jp/index.html They seat us in these little rooms. To get into the room you have to go through this tiny doorway to get in. It is so small Kichiya has to duck to get in. Kichiya comes up to my shoulders maybe. When we sit the tell me that in Japanese culture you order drinks first. So I order some Peach/Orange drink. I don't even think it contained alcohol but it was good and it sounded safe. They begin reading me the menu, which for someone that doesn't eat much of anything out of the ordinary, phrases like "this is like chicken" or "this is the tendon of the chicken" or "this is the skin of chicken" and I am questioning these phrases they begin laughing and I realize the fate of my food is in these guys hands. I begin to wonder if this is let's gross out the American girl or are they going to take care of me.
The lady comes in to take the food order, they ordered so much food. Again, all in Japanese, and I have no idea what is coming. First dish arrives, it is steamed snap peas with salt. Yu informs me that Martha Stewart eats these and they are healthy. I pop one in my mouth, and I realize as I am chewing and when they take one that you "snap" the peas out and don't eat the pod. Pod's don't taste that great and don't chew nicely, so I swallowed whole with a swig of the peach orange drink. 2nd dish is a salad with pork and egg plant. Good, pork was a little fatty, but tasty. Egg Plant really good. Next dish is noodles, again, this looks safe with pickled ginger. Noodle good, pickled ginger, not so good. 4th dish arrives, Fried ToFu. Taste ok but the texture was gross. 5th dish- is this dried rice, grilled, and with what looks like BBQ. Awesome. It was rather funny listening to them describe to me what it is made of. They didn't think that I would like it after the Tofu, but it really was good. Crispy grilled taste on the outside. I found a link to a picture. http://www.danke-bros.co.jp/08-jirou.html#02 it is the picture on the left. 6th dish is Chicken on a stick grilled, Good, tasted like Amstutz chicken that Aunt Patty and Uncle Jeff Make. 7th is the "like chicken dish" They compared this to ground up chicken like hamburger. I was leary. They both take a bite, Kichiya, is chewing away, going mmm MMMM mmmm . They both ate it all. It looks good from the outside so I decide to brave it. I pressed my luck WAY To far now. This chicken had ground up joints in it. I took a little bite and it started to crunch. Now, as some of you are aware, I have difficulty eating the chicken off the bone, I get grossed out with chicken wings. Everything I fear in Chicken was in that one little bite. I couldn't even chew it, so again, I swallowed whole. That was the grosses thing ever. I can't believe that I tried it. I want to hurl thinking about it. After dinner, we went to Starbucks for hot chocolate. Then we head to the train so they could take me back to the hotel. They both were extremely helpful. They showed me how to buy a ticket and how to switch the monitor to English. They were excited, they were teaching me something until we all realized that the maps were in Japanese with no english subtitles.
Once we made it to Tokyo Station, they were amazed that I was able to direct them to where my hotel was. (I get my sense of direction from my mom, thank you!) They didn't know where it was. I joked with them if they needed help gettin back to the train, I could take them. Appartently, when they drop me off, they have to call Toshi to report that the Eagle has landed or something. It was a fun evening, and I was more proud that I tasted food, I didn't know about. That is a big step for me.
The lady comes in to take the food order, they ordered so much food. Again, all in Japanese, and I have no idea what is coming. First dish arrives, it is steamed snap peas with salt. Yu informs me that Martha Stewart eats these and they are healthy. I pop one in my mouth, and I realize as I am chewing and when they take one that you "snap" the peas out and don't eat the pod. Pod's don't taste that great and don't chew nicely, so I swallowed whole with a swig of the peach orange drink. 2nd dish is a salad with pork and egg plant. Good, pork was a little fatty, but tasty. Egg Plant really good. Next dish is noodles, again, this looks safe with pickled ginger. Noodle good, pickled ginger, not so good. 4th dish arrives, Fried ToFu. Taste ok but the texture was gross. 5th dish- is this dried rice, grilled, and with what looks like BBQ. Awesome. It was rather funny listening to them describe to me what it is made of. They didn't think that I would like it after the Tofu, but it really was good. Crispy grilled taste on the outside. I found a link to a picture. http://www.danke-bros.co.jp/08-jirou.html#02 it is the picture on the left. 6th dish is Chicken on a stick grilled, Good, tasted like Amstutz chicken that Aunt Patty and Uncle Jeff Make. 7th is the "like chicken dish" They compared this to ground up chicken like hamburger. I was leary. They both take a bite, Kichiya, is chewing away, going mmm MMMM mmmm . They both ate it all. It looks good from the outside so I decide to brave it. I pressed my luck WAY To far now. This chicken had ground up joints in it. I took a little bite and it started to crunch. Now, as some of you are aware, I have difficulty eating the chicken off the bone, I get grossed out with chicken wings. Everything I fear in Chicken was in that one little bite. I couldn't even chew it, so again, I swallowed whole. That was the grosses thing ever. I can't believe that I tried it. I want to hurl thinking about it. After dinner, we went to Starbucks for hot chocolate. Then we head to the train so they could take me back to the hotel. They both were extremely helpful. They showed me how to buy a ticket and how to switch the monitor to English. They were excited, they were teaching me something until we all realized that the maps were in Japanese with no english subtitles.
Once we made it to Tokyo Station, they were amazed that I was able to direct them to where my hotel was. (I get my sense of direction from my mom, thank you!) They didn't know where it was. I joked with them if they needed help gettin back to the train, I could take them. Appartently, when they drop me off, they have to call Toshi to report that the Eagle has landed or something. It was a fun evening, and I was more proud that I tasted food, I didn't know about. That is a big step for me.
3 comments:
Alice in Wonderland! I am so proud of you for eating that "like chicken dish"!!! Few more days and you might eat something “like fish dish”…
swallow the whole thing?? lol..bff, you really crack me up
Wow! Dinner sounds good. Very brave of you for trying something totally new and waay out of your comfort zone. We'll be seeing you on Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel soon, I'm sure. lol Glad your getting around well and not feeling terribly lost.
"The Eagle has landed." I love it!!
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