Out for Dinner

While my sister was here visiting I took her to Genji's Japanese Steakhouse.  I like it there it is fun and the cooks are very talented.   I have always just gone there for lunch, dinner was a whole different experience.  We got our soup, salad and drinks... then came our appetizer.  We ordered Edamame.

It was good.   I don't know if you have ate edamame before, but you bite the end to open/split the pod and then drag your teeth along it to slide out the Japanese soy beans.  They are very good for you just lightly salted and steamed, but after a drink or two they were a little tricky.

 

Our waiter came out and started tossing the food on the grill.  We had veggies, rice and chicken.  Now my sister ordered the veggie dish and I ordered the chicken dish.  We watched him flip knives around and chop chop the veggies...Then he dumped a LARGE bowl of rice on the grill... there was A LOT of rice.  He shaped the rice in a heart and used the spatula to make it beat (say it, you know you want too "Awww").  My sister was eating a edamame and lost a bean down the front of her shirt.  He was so kind to offer to get it out for her.  Then he started chopping the chicken and when it was done he tossed it on my plate except for two pieces and he flipped those in her "yum yum" sauce and said... first day.  She glared at him and she explained to him that she was a vegetarian.  He looked at her like she was an alien and got her some more sauce w/o chicken.  He asked us to come back Sunday, but we declined.  It was a fun night.  I am glad she came to visit.  I am hoping to get to visit her in Boston in the fall.