Yakiniku

Today Pete and I went out for dinner with a bunch of students. It was a group we don't usually hang out with but all very nice people. ^_^

We went to a yakiniku (Korean barbecue) restaurant near Kawasaki station. This restaurant is great because it's cheap - beers and sawas are less than 300 yen (cheaper than a cappuccino); meat dishes are not much more!

In yakiniku, a burner is put in the middle of the table, and you put various items on the grill to cook them. So you can order various cuts of meat - they're thin and cook in a couple of minutes - and barbecue them, dip them in sauce, and eat them. They are *so* good. You can get other things too. For example, we got some vegetables, some mushrooms (they came in foil, with butter - you wrap them up and put them on the barbecue for about five minutes, and they come off oh-so-tender), and some flavoured corn, which was like eating corn on the cob. We also got this awesome Korean soup which I shall certainly have again. ^_^

This is one of my two favourite restaurants in Kawasaki; the other being an Indian restaurant with superb curry.

I had a very nice evening.