A Culinary Adventure

Last night we got to go to an extremely awesome restaurant to celebrate the promotion of/say goodbye to a co-worker of Corey's who is leaving Misawa. It was quite a delicious and adventurous dinner. First, we were served platter after platter of succulent, mouth-watering sushi and sashimi. Mmmmm...

Then our group got to enjoy 4 or 5 gigantic BBQ'd tuna heads that were absolutely delicious. It's fun to just hack off a hunk of tuna cheek and eat it!

Corey was brave enough to try one of the eyeballs from said gigantic tuna head. An experience I don't think he's likely to repeat...

Our most... shall we say, "interesting" dish of the evening was the following:

These are (well, were...) little live fishie guys swimming around in water. And a swallow later, they were in our bellies. I wasn't going to try this at first, but I'm glad I decided to suck it up (so to speak) and do it. I had a slight moment of panic after I took the gulp but before I could manage to swallow, when these little dudes were thrashing against the back of my throat and I was afraid they weren't going to go down at all. It was a very strange feeling! They didn't have any taste whatsoever, so I'm not sure what the point of eating them is- other than just to be able to say you swallowed live fish. Which, if you're impressed by that kind of thing, is pretty bad-ass.

I thought we were going to get to try fugu last night (blowfish/pufferfish- the toxic fish that if not prepared EXACTLY perfectly by a licensed chef, is lethal), but alas, it was not to be. Maybe next time!

And, since the night was dedicated to the awesome dude in black below- Congratulations Jay and good luck in Monterey! You'll be missed!!