Japanese food again!

Went for Japanese lunch with ZY today at some, what else, Japanese restaurant called Ministry of Food. The name sounds a little too pretentious though... like it is the authority on all things edible, when it only specialises in Japanese cuisine, haha. Well, it was one of the few times I opted to go non-raw, because usually, in such scenarios, I'd be off my top ordering all the raw fish I can get my hands on. The beef slices though were equally nice, and had this meaty (yes there's no other word to describe it) taste that if replicated in every other kind of meat, there wouldn't be any need for sashimi. But since it isn't, sashimi's still good. So anyway, the beef is supposed to be cooked in some pot of (delish!) soup over a flame, but some of the ash intermittently flew up and hurt our eyes; sigh, the sacrifices we make for good food.

On this note I would like to say that good food is perhaps one of the items that is worth paying exorbitant prices for.

Anyway the conversation soon (somehow) veered towards the corrupt nature of many political institutions and how we would deal with them when we grow up to be highflyers of note in our specific fields of work. But then I got distracted by the dessert that came. ZY tried some soft-serve ice-cream that seriously tastes quite good for its price even though McDonald's sells the same kind at a pittance and doesn't taste half as nice. Hokkaido milk really is better. But she didn't like the black sauce that she (herself) poured all over the rest of the dessert, and so, I got to eat it. I should seriously pack some of the black sauce wherever I go - lets me have free dessert and tastes like brown sugar (maybe it's really brown sugar and not black dates and prunes. The cheaters). My tri-colour dessert thing wasn't really tri-colour, but tasted alright anyway. Hokkaido red beans and potatoes don't really go well with rice cakes, in my opinion. But what can I say, they're the Ministry of Food. (: