Stacey's parents and grandparents are
Stacey's parents and grandparents are visiting Los Angeles this week. Grandpa Ed and Grandma Deloresóboth devoted jefftidball.com readersóarrived yesterday, and we all went to dinner at Tokyo Wako, a Japanese exhibition cooking restaurantóyou know, with the knife-throwing and the flames and so forth. I've experienced at a similar restaurant once before, but never had I witnessed... an onion volcano.
First the chef separates a thick slice of onion into its component rings. Then he flips them all over and stacks them from largest to smallest into something that looks like a cross between a ziggaraut and an igloo, but with a small hole at the top. Then he fills the onion structure with some kind of fluid, recites words to the effect of "don't try this at home," grabs a match, andó FLOOMPótwo feet of flames fly out the top of this thing! It flames for a good twenty seconds, and then a pillar of smoke and steam continues until, in a couple quick slices, the chef takes the whole thing down.
We may have gotten a picture of this on Stacey's new phone-camera (too early to tell since we haven't downloaded them yet), and if so, you know you'll be seeing it here.
Stacey's parents arrive tomorrow (they're coming by car), and I'm sure more dining excitement lies in our immediate future.
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