Call me nuts, but did they used to play this before a feature at the long-forgotten Cinema Valley Plaza? I vaguely remember seeing a “feature presentation” trailer with a cartoon projector but the music was different. Anyway, just a chance to see if I finally figured out how to embed Youtube videos. Thanks Webmaster!
I had a couple of more experiences with teppanyaki cooking these past couple of weeks, but with better results.
I visited Tokyo Garden with my sister, dad, and his girlfriend a couple of Sundays ago. Tokyo Garden is a much more open restaurant than Akira’s. Then again, we visited during the daylight hours and it wasn’t the middle of winter. Anyway, we had a cook that must have been very experienced. He was flawless with all of his maneuvers: flinging spice onto the rice from across the grill, flipping bowls of packed rice around, cracking a tossed egg onto his spatula without losing the shell into the food below.
I ordered the chicken filet mignon combination dinner. That meant that I would get a little bit of each meat to go along with my fried rice. Let me tell you something, this dinner was the best food I have tasted in a long time. I am not just throwing this out there; it was mouthwatering. The chicken and steak melted in your mouth, no stringiness or dryness.
I went back again with my new girlfriend. This time, I got a much more novice cook. He made a few mistakes with the cooking maneuvers mentioned above. The food was not as juicy and I felt kind of rushed. It also didn’t help that we had a bunch of loudmouthed roidheads with their wives sitting at our table. The cook from the previous Sunday was cooking over at the table south of us. That’s when I realized that our cook was not as seasoned. Still, the food was quite good and it beat just about anywhere else in terms of taste.
So if you want to splurge a little bit for some tasty food, go to Tokyo Garden in the old Zody’s shopping center (although Zody’s has been closed for twenty years.)