Things were a little different this week, for several reasons. First, instead of going out on Sunday this week, our family gathered sat our house for a chance to try the new dishes we have been practicing. We drank sake and ate miso glazed black cod, miso soup, rice, pickled vegetables, and mochi for dessert. Other than dessert, we made it all from the recipes we have been practicing.
We have been watching YouTube videos to earn techniques for preparing foods for bento, which H thinks is a great idea for creating a simple and healthy breakfast, and we have an excellent new cookbook from a Japanese publisher, Effortless Bento filled with strategies, ideas and simple recipes that seems to provide all he needs to know to do just that. So, this week, the plan was to go out for a bento lunch, rather than dinner, and learn more about what constitutes a bento box.
H did the research bento and Grok suggested a restaurant in a mall in Beaverton.
Tuesday's cold and gloomy weather matched my mood, but I was hungry and looking forward to seeing the variety of foods that could be combined. My first impression of the restaurant felt like going into an old grandmother's house - dingy, dim and seen better days. We were seated at a table with a view of the storage area, and the work area beside the sushi bar. I was impressed by a sake dispenser next to the tea dispenser. I read a review from someone who said the place hasn't changed since high school.
There is a full page of bento suggestions on the menu, and H insisted that we ty the two deluxe options to give us the most opportunities to see and taste. I wish I had more good things to say, but though the food was plentiful and varied, it was nothing special or new. Lots of tempura, I had salmon and snowshoe crab on mine. H had grilled eel, which was the best dish.
Sorry to say, I rate this place a five - the atmosphere and the ordinary dishes just didn't do it for me.
H gives it a seven, he liked his food.
$64
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