Ninja Training!

Chris completed his HAC training a few weeks ago and wanted to celebrate with some ninja training. Good thing we live in Tokyo! I made us reservations at Ninja Akasaka. We traversed steep, low-ceiling-ed corridors, crossed a drawbridge and inched through the dark until we got to our ninja room, where our ninja guide whipped out long, parchment menus with a flourish. We started with the crab salad (served with a sword trick!!), then both had the lobster before a final course of sushi rolls, the delicious likes of which I haven’t tasted since we left the States. This is the first time I’ve seen this type of roll on a Japanese menu! YUM!! Bonus: we got a magic show in the middle of dinner. Ninja magician who does card tricks? Ok!When Chris found out he’d been selected for pilot training back at the end of college we celebrated by driving to Houston for dinner at Spindletop. The lobster was ‘market price’ and I ordered it. Ooooops–it was really expensive. At Ninja Akasaka we were pleasantly surprised to find the lobster half the cost as that first expensive lobster! We’ll both have it! Well surprise again–“I think this is half a lobster,” Chris said. “Wait, do you have the right side? Mine’s the left side of the same one!” End result: exactly the same price. My, how we come full circle. 🙂