Godzilla: movie review

Tags

Godzilla, Japanese, movies, postaday2014, review

Wow, what an excellent modern take on the original concept of Godzilla. I almost want to end my post right here because I don’t want to give away any inadvertent spoilers. I will take my chances and proceed albeit with caution. I will say that for those who are nostalgic for old Godzilla, you will not be disappointed. That is all I can safely say except for I loved it!

The whole family went to the movies; this was a belated Mother’s Day celebration because no one was around on Sunday. We then went off to Great Barrington to the wonderful Japanese restaurant Bizen. We shared appetizers such as steamed shumai, shrimp dumplings, Monkfish liver delicately prepared and served with a lovely ponzu sauce and a delectable tuna tartar that our daughter inhaled; she is the queen of tartar. We then moved on to the main courses. I had a “binge on the fringe” a spicy tuna, smoked eel, salmon, and avocado roll, our son ordered two specialty rolls, one called “meditation” and the other “magic”, our daughter ordered “puff dragon” and my husband ordered “Godzilla” very apropos given the movie that we had just seen.

Afterwards I couldn’t resist the call of ice cream; right down the street from Bizen is an ice cream shop called SoCo. They have deliciously creamy ice cream and I ordered two scoops of my Achilles Heel Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream in a waffle cone. It was a beauteous thing to behold and a most luscious dessert to lick and savor on the ride home. Our son drove home which is why I was able to take my time in the backseat appreciating my ice cream cone. It was a lovely outing all in all.

Soup is good food

Tags

Bento Box, Japanese, postaday2014, udon noodles

Tonight my hubby and I arrived in Northern Virginia and after we got settled into our room; my hubby suggested Japanese for dinner, I can never say no to Japanese, when we got to the restaurant, just down the road from the hotel, I looked through the menu looking for a hearty soup to warm my bones. I found it, Sansai Udon, a soup with Japanese mountain vegetables, seaweed, spinach and fish cake, it sounded perfect.

It tasted really good but I could have done with more vegetables, not in replacement of the udon noodles, the amount of udon noodles was just fine, just more vegetables in general. The spinach and seaweed was a welcome treat in the soup, it made the whole experience feel even more healthy and good for me. That was exactly what I was looking for; something warming, soothing and really good for me. My hubby got a big Bento box; those are always fun because you have little partitions filled with a different thing, a California roll in one partition, shrimp and vegetable tempura in another, sashimi in another and some special treat in the other part. By the time that we were finished with dinner, we were both very full, we also drank a lot of green tea, that filled us up quite a bit. I’m sure that in a few hours, we’ll be less full.

So far since we have been in Virginia; we have had wonderful French food, very good Vietnamese food and now great Japanese. Hopefully we’ll find a good Thai, for some reason I doubt that we will find Korean, to me that is more of a New York thing, I don’t know of any in Boston or perhaps it is because I haven’t researched it, but it is for that reason that I am thinking that we won’t find Korean here in Virginia. I could be wrong. I am going to look into that after I look into finding a Thai place.

So for a Sunday night, we did pretty well. We left Jack in the excellent care of our baby boy. He was missing Jack so much last week that we didn’t have the heart of taking Jack away from him again. So our two baby boys are bonding together back at home.