Adventures in Eating

Last night I went to a Japanese / Chinese restaurant. It was my first experience with the Asian hibachi grill. This restaurant was rather small and built in an old fast food restaurant. They did not serve wine or sushi. So we elected to go with the grill instead of ordering off the menu. I was expecting the chef to come out and cook on the grill in front of us. I was not expecting the noise or entertainment factor. The chef came out and spoke broken english with an asian accent ( I suspect that was part of the act). He twirled his spatula, created a huge fire, flipped an egg around and broke it on the grill, stacked up an onion and filled it with oil to make a volcano, then pulled a train whistle out and made it choo choo across the grill. There was a little six inch plastic boy filled with water. The chef picked it up, pushed on it's head and caused it to "pee" on our food. The chef seemed especially pleased with that as he did it several times. After some other antics we finally had filled plates and he had a clean grill. Then he pulled out an harmonica and played Yankee Doodle. If I'd had anything in my mouth at that moment I think it would have spewed everywhere. Nothing can compare to Yankee Doodle from a man with a heavy asian accent. The food was good and the dinner was definitely an experience. I'm glad we went, but I don't think I'll go back. It was just a good Friday evening adventure.