I dreamed that I was teaching a music class, but I was getting irritated because all the kids were listening to Quiet Riot when I wanted them to focus on Queensrÿche. So, I said, "OY!" really loudly.And I said it aloud IRL too, because I woke myself up it was so loud. And WTF? I don't even listen to those bands.
No pictures but three delicious restaurants in Yokohama lately:
Al Ain: an Arabic restaurant near Isezakichojamachi station or Kannai. They have belly dancing on weekends but I didn't see that. This is the best baklava I've found yet; pistachio, sweet but not cloyingly so, and using a light touch with the rosewater. I think too much rosewater and it tastes like soap. Also the chef came out and reached into our bread basket, manhandled the pita, tore it up, scooped up hummus, and handed a piece to each of us. I found this hilarious.
Ali Baba: a little Turkish hole in the wall, also in Kannai. If you click on the link, we were served by the guy on the left side of the photo. Friendly and tasty. And whoa, Tuesday is LADIES PARTY night. Might have to go back for that.
And then, La Tenda Rossa. There are about 2.5 million Italian restaurants in my immediate neighborhood, but but but this one had exceptionally good brick oven pizza. The waiter was kind of obsequious and brought over some huge white truffle that they were peddling for us to sniff. It's near Sakuragicho or Bashamichi and fancy white-tableclothish but not very expensive for a midrange Italian joint; my (super delicious!) margherita pizza was about 1300 yen. Exactly what kind of pizza are you missing, Beth?
all this is veggie-friendly? I might need to get out of my cave a bit
ReplyDeleteYup! Al Ain even has a vegetarian set menu. I can almost always eat pizza or tomato sauce pasta at Italian, and Middle Eastern food has loads of hummus, tomato and red pepper dip, eggplant... We had some kind of yummy tomato stew at Al Ain and Turkish pizza (pide) with some stinky (goat?) cheese action at Ali Baba.
ReplyDeleteDowntown Yokohama is where I wish I could live next- so many great places. Hey, I was wondering if I could share your blog with a friend who I think would appreciate your restaurant reviews.
ReplyDeleteHi Lily, of course! I would love that. I sent your birth story to a friend who's about to have a baby because I liked it so much.
ReplyDeleteHWAT! i am missing DELICIOUS pizza! and that pizza looks DELICIOUS! i might have to make a trip
ReplyDeletealso look at you, talkin bout hair and dreamin bout quiet riot. do we need to have a costume hair band karaoke party
ReplyDeleteOh hell yes! Let me get my mousse.
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