Japanese food, sake, family

[afuna]

Ate at John&Yoko, at Greenbelt 5, fusion Japanese food, to celebrate my dad's and my brother's birthdays. The gindara steak was amazing, rockefeller oysters were pretty yum, and I highly recommend the shrimp and enoki (golden/straw mushroom?) pizza -- slightly cheesy, slightly sweet, very very good. One of the appetizers, thin slices of toasted bread with tuna and salmon sashimi was pretty good, too.

Hmm, the spider roll (soft-shelled crab). The teppanyaki was salty but otherwise not memorable; I'd give it a pass. Chawan mushi was so so; steamed egg + giant prawn, and it looked good, but didn't taste anything close to how it looked. Tea was... ergh. They used Lipton fruit tea, not any form of green tea or rice tea; disappointing.

I ordered some cherry blossom sake instead. Now that was nice! Slightly sweet, with no bitter undertone/aftertaste, and it didn't make me red or itchy! So that was interesting, and sweet.

Talked about stuff at the table. Some things I need to think about still. Went home in one car with my brother and sister. My parents were in the other car, leaving us free to talk about our respective dating lives, etc.

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[dreamatdrew]

Rice....tea?


This is something with which I am not familar...
I mean, admittedly, I'm a black tea kinda guy, though I do like my occasional green.... but rice tea? this is new!