Holy Crow, i just came back from an AMAZING dinner!

[Rabrrrrrr]

And some here are gonna hate for this, but too bad.

We had some amazing Thai-style spring rolls, followed with a magnificent pan-seared 80g of foie gras and mango chutney, then a caesar salad, and then a most wonderful pepper-caked rib-eye of Australian Black Angus. Had a fantastic Chilian wine (thankfully, today is a rainy day, and the restaurant offers half-price bottles on rainy days of anything more than 5,000 Yen) with dinner as well. Finished it up with coffee and a Chocolate Mousse that was easily the best chocolate mousse I've ever had, served with a small scoop of decadent chocolate sorbet and a wheel of carmelized sugar, and also a scoop of amaretto ice cream, served in a whisky glass, over which was poured a small pitcher of espresso at the table.

FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC!

Then after dinner, we actually got a tour of the place - used to be an old Kyoto-style Ryokan, very much like the place in Spirited Away, with the second oldest elevator in Kyoto - an old Otis manual one! Beautiful building, great dinner, and a perfectly relaxing evening, sitting eating a slow and excellent dinner while looking out upon a rainy Kamogawa river and the mountains.

We had hoped to eat on the yuka (the deck over the river) but the rain made that impossible.

Here's the place:

http://www.theriveroriental.com/

So, on this trip I've had whale and foie gras. All I need is some veal to round out the trifecta of illiberal foods. :-) Am I awful? Maybe a bit, but what the hell. I haven't had foie gras in years, and I was desperate for some. And it was heavenly!

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. You're going to hell.

I mean, what's next...? ...veal...? ....baby panda....?

















Hope you are having a good time. :hug:

[Mutley]

2. There is no such thing as "liberal food".

Screw that, and screw those who tell you that -- eat whatever you want, and they can eat, or not eat, whatever they want.

The restaurant is beautiful. :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I was sooooo tempted to stay and hang at the bar and have a Cuban cigar

But the wine was already enough in my system... and I was afraid that if I stayed and had a drink and a cigar - which I'd have to do alone, since my dinner mate had to go work - it would turn into two or three drinks, and then I, in a drunken (albeit gloriously nirvanic) state would have to figure out my way home in a place in which I can't speak nor read the language.... hard enough to get around when sober during the daylight. But not late at night, in the rain...

But goddamn, it was so exciting to look in the cigar cabinet - my eyes immediately and instinctively moved to the boxes of Cubans! What a great feeling it was to see them, to be so close, to smell them...

[Mutley]

7. I smelled one once.

It smelled delicious. I love the smell of cigars but the one time I tried one I hated it. :P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. You're no liberal!

:sarcasm:

Just kidding -- hope it was delicious! :toast:

[RebelOne]

5. Foie gras, whale, veal? Sounds disgusting to me.

[Deja Q]

6. If you did that to a fan, wouldn't it hurt?

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Did what?

I am so very confused...

:shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. I think he's referring to the Fan-Fucking...

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Ah, of course! I didn't see that at all.

Thanks!

Yes, it would indeed hurt, unless the fan were turned off. Then it would just be, you know, creepy of me.