I didn't post about our date night last week but can't resist showing you all this one shot of the tripe entree that I got because it was so good and I can't stop thinking about it! I don't see tripe on a non-asian restaurant's menu very often so when I do, I'm always very interested in it. It almost felt like the waitress was trying to steer me away from this dish (we ordered a lot) but I'm really glad I tried it. This version was in a cumin-laced San Marzano tomato sauce that bordered on tasting like an Indian curry, and had chickpeas for texture, castelventrano olives for acid and bite, calabrian chili for heat and then a sprinkle of lavender that was surprising, interesting, different and totally worked. I haven't been this excited about a dish in a long time! The pic doesn't really show how delicious it was!
We got back from Japan about a week ago and we're still talking about what a great trip it was! Japan has never been super high on my places to visit but for a lot of reasons (I've never been, it's clean, it's safe, it's different) we took the plunge and booked it as our summer vacation this year. It helped that our friends, the Wongs, went last year, raved about it and loved it so much they were going again and we were able to coordinate so that some of our trip overlapped with theirs. It helped even more that the yen is at a 10-year low (maybe all time low?) against the dollar, which, aside from airfare, made everything quite affordable. Look how low the yen is! We lucked out that it kept falling after we booked our tix in Dec. Since this was our first big overseas trip since COVID and with kids (or, lets face it, SINCE kids), I dove into prepping for our trip - including trying to keep up my Duolingo streak of learning Japanese for at least a few minutes everyd
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