Anniversary Dinner

It's been 2 awesome years of marriage last Tuesday to an exceptionally awesome man! We went to dinner on Wednesday night to celebrate at a place called Kochan's Steakhouse Rapan in Settsumotoyama. It is very close to Settsumotoyama JR station, being a (?)3 minute walk from the North exit. It is on the first floor of one of the small buildings so it was a little hard to find with a small sign downstairs in the dark. Thanks to Google maps we got there!

It is a smallish place (seating about 15 people) with interesting decor. There was Wild West and Japanese themed decor as well as a random snowboard. It is teppanyaki style where they cook the food on hot iron griddles. We chose to get Special Wagyu fillet steak for our main dish. You receive a starter, soup, salad, rice/bread, miso soup, dessert and tea/coffee with your meal. You can change the rice to garlic fried rice by paying an additional 200yen.

 

Roasted beef and shiso leaf, smoked salmon with capsicum and a mustard mayonaise sauce

Shiso leaves are packed with flavour. The taste reminds me a lot of coriander. It was a great match with the beef though. I don't eat salmon so I can't comment on it. =P

Spinach soup

It was more a spinach and pumpkin soup, but tasted absolutely divine. The seasoning of the soup was perfect. 

Chef putting on a show whilst cooking on the hot plates

Kobe beef with veggies and garlic.

In addition to what you see in the picture above, we were given a piece of konnyaku and tofu cooked on the griddle which were absolutely delicious! Not a fan of tofu but I really liked the piece they served me. It was caramelised on the outside, soft on the inside and served with a super tasty creamy sauce and placed onto a dash of soy sauce on my plate. The meat is cooked medium rare and is very soft to eat! The middle of the meat is on the cooler side for my liking although it must be how they have to cook it/ eat it here. It was the same when I ate Kobe beef with Sam's sister.

Garlic fried rice

To be honest, I didn't think the garlic fried rice anything special. It was basically fried rice with deep fried garlic pieces mixed through at the end. It needed some more soy sauce and moisture in my opinion. I prefer homemade fried rice. =P

Sparkling wine jelly and check out the cool spoon.

 Chefs told us it was wine jelly to which I wasn't looking looking forward to eating it as I don't like the taste of wine. It was surprisingly very good! The taste of the wine wasn't strong at all, it wasn't too sweet and had a tingly sensation in the mouth just like bubbles in a carbonated drink have, hence why I believe it was sparkling wine jelly. Eating the strawberry with the jelly somehow took the dessert to a whole nother dimension. If only there had been more strawberries.

Cool cup

 Overall it was a great experience with delicious food and a great atmosphere. The chefs were very friendly and you get to watch the chefs put on a show as they cook your food.