Yesterday was Mardi Gras – the last day before lent. If you translate this in English, it means Fat Tuesday. Since it’s Fat Tuesday, why not eat something fat? Well, not really fat, but more of a lot and something that will really hit the spot. We went to a Japanese restaurant and ordered the Menu Fromage (salad, miso soup, a bowl of rice, and 5 beef sticks with cheese yum yum) and the Menu Brochettes (same as mine but with 7 different sticks of meat this time). And a side dish of shake maki. Hungry much? Yes, for rice!
The veal ball stick was awesome!
Menu Brochette
No – that’s not fat! What you see is cheese oozing out of the beef sticks. Sinful – but I could eat this everyday!
Menu Fromage
The shake maki was great, but I like the sushi version better. I know, it’s just the same but the sushi is bigger and has more of that tender salmon meat.
Salmon Maki
Where’s the rice and the soup and salad? Hmm…actually, these pictures were not taken by me but I took it out from the Sushi Yama site. We ate too fast.
After the dinner, we went to the most amazing Starbucks in Paris. I will put up photos of it in my next post, but you wouldn’t have believed it was a Starbucks coffee franchise. Then we watched Benjamin Button and I was mesmerized by Brad Pitt’s character and lean muscles. It was a great night. The movie ran for 2 hours 45 minutes. We ran to the metro to catch the almost last train home.
To be honest, I was expecting eggs to be thrown at me – I was warned about this stuff happening during Mardi Gras. But then, in my mind, I see Mardi Gras as a celebration with parades, people happy, and to be honest – girls flashing? What – I’ve read it in books and movies!
