Yum-oh

We went out to dinner last night with M's boss, a couple of workmates, their wives and some visiting overseas consultants. We went to Tansawa Tai in Northbridge.

Excuse me for a moment while I get the drool bucket just at the memory.

The menu was to die for. There were way too many things to have to settle for just one meal off the a la carte, so I got the Sakura banquet. Yum yum yum. Served with wafu salad and gohan, I got a steady stream of small taste plates to nibble on. Ebi no and hotategai tepanyaki, miso, prawn and vegetable tempura. I had cray and chicken off the BBQ and a wonderful assortment of hors d'oeuvres. It as followed up by icecream balls with plum sauce and red bean mash.I had to give the saki a miss because I was DD.

The food wasn't all that was good. It was a damn fine bunch of people to be with (excluding that one bloke).

It was also a very diverse group. There were 12 of us. 6 were Aussies born and bred. Of the other 6, every continent was represented. We had a South African and his Hing Kong born Chinese wife, now living in Perth. We has a Scot now living in rural Victoria. We had a Canadian born in Ukraine (he was the weird one, he was so socially inept, if I hadn't already known he was an engineer, I would have thought he was autistic). Then there was the Mexican who was born in Austria and raised in Uraguay. And of course the Kiwi who was originally a Pom.

Quite the little United Nations.

It was a good night. And my tummy went home feeling very happy