Last Thursday after our soccer game, Kyle, Sean & I went to Hakata ramen. I FINALLY got to try it! Everyone, especially Taryn has always raved about it but it is not close so I never got a chance to try it... turns out from Manhattan Beach it's actually not that far at all, so it was perfect for us to go after our game. I got my ramen medium, medium, medium.... medium on hardness of noodles, medium on the oil and medium on the broth... I added corn and egg and Sean & I split the other half of Kyle's spicy miso. It was yummy! We also had some gyoza and rice which was perfect and you can choose a side if you get the set so we chose this thing that sounded like it might be like hapen cheese... fishcake and cheese, but it wasn't really the same. It was fine, but nothing like the nanpan cheese. Ramen was really good too though, I can't wait to go back. Kyle wants us to try his favorite one in downtown though, called Daikokuya.
It's been a while since Sean & I have been to Chaya Venice. His parents told us about it a while ago and we really love it there. Every Sunday and Monday they have happy hour all night at the sushi bar and there is a small menu you can choose from with everything discounted. So we went Sunday night (had dim sum for brunch so it was an amazing day of food) and it was packed! I guess we haven't been in a while and they changed it to every night happy hour. We waited only like 15-20 minutes though and to our surprise we saw that they had expanded their happy hour menu, yay! As always, everything was excellent!!! Such a great meal.
One of the new items was oysters so Sean and I got 2 each. He thought they were a little fishy but absolutely loved one of the ponzu sauces- he was pouring it on everything! We also got the sweet potato fries which we always have to get... seems odd to have at a japanese restaurant but they are literally the best ones I have ever had... they come with this mayo sriracha type sauce that is absolutely incredible!!!
One of the new items was oysters so Sean and I got 2 each. He thought they were a little fishy but absolutely loved one of the ponzu sauces- he was pouring it on everything! We also got the sweet potato fries which we always have to get... seems odd to have at a japanese restaurant but they are literally the best ones I have ever had... they come with this mayo sriracha type sauce that is absolutely incredible!!!
We also got the chef's special roll, which varies but yay it was my favorite one- a shrimp tempura roll that's just really really tasty. There is also a spicy tuna with these won ton chips that are reallly good and they are pretty generous with the tuna too! Also got the albacore salad which is really good, I like the dressing a lot.
The last new thing we tried was the miso cod. It was fine, but nothing special. It was also the priciest thing we ordered so we probably wont' be ordering it again. Would much rather get another order of something else since we absolutely love everything else!
I am going to double post here because it is wedding related but it's also too cool to pass up on the food side... we had a sewing party and Aunty Ruby was in charge of food... she not only made food "hawaiian themed" but she had all the decor to go along with it too! And Aunty Bet made these cupcakes that were sooooooo cute- little mini PINK and GREEN slippers and seashells... sooo adorable!
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