Bakudanyaki

In lieu of actual posting on crochet... I'll talk about food, since I'm eating out a lot at some familiar places and some new places in Vancouver.   Today, after I got a haircut, I popped over to Tenku since it was close-ish.  It's Japanese street food that consists of a ramen truck, a temaki truck and a bakudanyaki truck.  Really, at $5 a pop I thought it was a bit pricey and was worried it would be like Japadog - too much hype but ultimately a disappointment.

Nevertheless I headed over, and they have pretty good customer service.  The cooks were actually standing around talking outside since it was afternoon on a weekday and I'm guessing not much business.  When I walked over and looked at the bakudanyaki they stopped their conversation and asked me for my order.  And within 5 minutes of me ordering, it was cooked.

The packaging was quite durable and cute and functional; it was a "stereotypical Chinese takeout box" (which I haven't actually ever seen a Chinese restaurant use), they slid napkins and chopsticks into slots on the outside of the box, and the box survived a 1 hour transit trip.    

Anyway!  Food!  I got an original seafood bakudanyaki.  It was an oval shape about 9cm by 7 cm by 7 cm (the box is not square so I figure it got deformed), nicely brown on the outside and smothered in mayo, soy sauce and seaweed.  I was surprised to find no bonito...maybe they forgot.  I'm impressed by the filling.  I pulled out a large piece of cuttlefish, a prawn (marks off for not deveining properly), half of a perfectly cooked egg (the yolk was not overcooked), and various pieces of potato.  The batter also had julienned carrots and corn. 

Overall it was quite good, and I'm full (granted I don't eat a lot).  I'd probably buy it as an occasional treat but I'm only about 80% convinced it's worth $5.