| Rob had yakiniku on the brain during most of our drive back to Sakininato City. Yakiniku is a Japanese interpretation of Korean BBQ. Raw meats of various kinds are brought to your table, then you grill them on a gas burner in the center of the table. Rob hadn't been to this restaurant before, so we didn't know what to expect, portion-wise. It was a fairly nice, take-your-shoes-off-at-the-door kind of place, so we figured that the menu's prices were a bit high. BZZT! We were wrong. The prices were actually pretty reasonable, and the portions were huge. Oops, we'd ordered too much food. But we'd done a lot of walking around that day and, despite the marvelous lunch, were pretty hungry. Not shown in this photo are the lettuce salads that each of us had ordered, both bigger than we'd expected. The disks of fatty pork at the top of the platter are about the size of a White Castle hamburger (though sliced quite thinly); the fish cakes at the bottom right are the diameter of my thumb. The soup bowl with my spicy soup, egg, beef, veggies, and Japanese udon noodles is huge: that's a ladle in the bowl, not a spoon. Oops!
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