Tempura Dinner

It's great to see Furukawa-san, the CEO of Nifty using their newly launched (it launched on December 2) Cocolog service powered by TypePad to keep his own weblog - it's a testament to his belief in weblogs and TypePad and should be an inspiration for large companies who get involved in the weblogging space.

It was especially great to see this post appear on his own weblog yesterday because it reminded me that I wanted to write about the tempura dinner that we experienced while in Tokyo.

Imagine a two hour tempura meal that doesn't weigh you down or make you cringe at the sight of battered anything. The restaurant, which will remain nameless since I never caught it, was the polar opposite of probably most every place I have ever eaten tempura in the United States. The batter was light, the oil was fresh, the selection varied from fish spine tempura (like a potato chip) to the freshest shrimp ever. I'm no Jeffrey Steingarten so I fear that my review of the evening doesn't illustrate what a fine meal we had.

Oh, and it was the first time that I ever had warm sake; I must say it was certainly a eye-opening experience. Regardless, it was a dinner I will not soon forget.

Below are a couple pictures from the night.

Part of the dinner party.

The chef and his intimate kitchen.

Big, plump asparagus.

The big eye little fish.

My bonus tempura.