Dinner Adventure

Now you know that one of the joys of traveling is that you get to try all manner of food. For the most part I have enjoyed the food in Osaka and I have tried many things.But I am a girl if the food don’look good- I don want it and worse when I don’ know what it is and cyaan ask you to tell me in English.

The other day I got a dinner invitation. Now this was a dinner invitation a couldn’t pass cause is my landlord mother invite me ( big tings). I was glad though that she gestured to me eat and said “ tempura” simultaneously cause I knew that was something I could eat. Tempura is really a batter that they put on almost anything- shrimp, yam, bell peppers etc. Plus when you get tempura with the sauce it taste well good.

When I went to the house and she began to cook the tempura but after that she start to take out all manner of food from the fridge and of course I have no clue what it is. But what is worse is that, it not looking too pretty and nothing in it look familiar. Anyway she put it on the table and a mek a vow inna mi heart same time seh ‘mi naah eat it”

Things going on fine. I loving up di tempura and making sure the hostess know it tastes real good. Now I avoiding the other thing put on the table like how Egyptian did try to avoid plague but like a spite I see the lovely lady’s hand reaching for a spoon taking out the content of the unknown and worse putting it into my plate. LAAAAWD!!!

Anyway I did mek a vow. Now if I go on like I don’t see it then I’m fine. But the lovely lady give me a gesture and dis gesture is “try it nuh” . I cyaan form the fool- I know what she want me to do. I smile sheepishly. Now if you don’t try it is a big dis to the hostess and remember this hostess is my land lord mother. So I take it up and slowly put it to my mouth. The lady smiles and I …...puke? That would have been dramatic, but no, I smile back. It really didn’t taste that bad. I didn’t eat it off but at the end of the night I was glad I didn’t offend the lady.

* If you haven’t been to the East in the Market Place (Jamaica) you really should try it out. The restaurant is really quaint, the staff really nice and the food is sumptuous. This is not a paid advertisement but good food and good friends is always a winning combination and if you haven’t tasted Japanese food then it’s a great place to start a culinary adventure. To tell the truth, some of the food there tastes even better than the Japanese food in Japan - lol