Romantic dinner

To celebrate one of our anniversaries, we had made reservations on a local restaurant, Ikkon.

The great thing about Japanese restaurants, is that when you make reservations, you can either select something from the menu - or have what ever you are in the mood for. The choice is all yours, as long as you tell the chef a couple of days in advance so he can shop for ingredients.
We asked for the chef to decide the menu as long as it contained both meat and fish, and he said he would prepare something special as it was our anniversary.

When we arrived at the restaurant, we were shown into our own little personal booth. If we needed a waiter, we could just lift the phone and call, if not, we would be left to our selves unless food was being served for us.
Privacy you would think... But as (we counted) 13 different dishes were served to us, the waiters paid us a visit quite often!

The most interesting thing we tasted this evening was raw sea urchin gonads (see pic. 1). The gonads is the organ that produces the roe. As strange as it might sound, this is actually a delicacy and quite tasty.
The other picture shows the meat dish we had to grill on a stone. The very best meat in Japan, is meat with well distributed fat (the cows are actually getting massage because of that).

With the dessert we received a big flower decoration as an anniversary gift from the restaurant. The flowers looked so perfect, that we could not decide whether they were made of plastic or not. When we later unwrapped them at home, a nice scent of freshness greeted us. For sure they are real.

13 years of dating or 13 years of marriage...whats the big difference? (See the text on the card from the restaurant by doubleclick pic.).