My new favorite place to eat is a little Japanese restaurant tucked away in a shopping plaza here in Rio Rancho. For me to even consider eating Japanese food is a bit of a shocker, I never really use to be adventurous when it came to trying new foods. Hubby is very good at convincing me to try new foods......like the octopus last year.
Last weekend we had date night and as usual in our house Jon and I spent a good half hour trying to decide what to do (we don't get out much!) Finally decided to go out to eat and we decided on Japanese, and headed out to Noda's. Neither of us had ever been to this restaurant before or eaten at a Japanese restaurant..........thinking back now we really should of goggled Japanese dining etiquette!
We had a 5 minute wait for our table when we got there, and were informed that their Sushi chef was away on vacation and that Mr Noda was in the kitchen tonight. Having never eaten there before we were none the wiser with who cooked the food. Our table was ready and our waitress took us to our table and immediatley I noticed that instead of having cutlery on the table we had chopsticks...............yes I know it is a Japanese Restaurant............but I seriously started to panic that this was going to be a long night, I had never eaten with chopsticks before and new this was going to be hilarious.
I spent the next 10 minutes trying to watch what and how other diners were using their chopsticks. We ordered and waited for the fun to begin. Each of our entrees came with salad and a japanese soup. Hubby and I coped pretty well with the salad but yes in complete ignorance I sat staring at the soup thinking to myself "how on earth was I going to eat this" realising then that I was being a bit of a plank as I watched hubby pick the bowl up and drink the soup! Our food was being served out of order but to be honest it was half the fun because Jon and I were having way to much of a good time trying to eat with these wooden sticks to be bothered about the order our food came from the kitchen.
Jon attempting to pick up one of the sushi rolls and the whole thing fell apart!
Now across from us were another couple and they seemed experts when it came to using the chopsticks, they even had there cups of sake. We had already been served our entrees and Jon and I were giggling so much because I was having a hard time eating the rice with my beef teriyaki, that when the couple across from us got their entrees I nearly fell out of my chair when the guy asks his waitress if he can have a knife and fork! Are you kidding me! So there is Jon and I doing our best to eat with these wooden sticks and we could of asked for cutlery!! Well we finished our meal that night using just our chopsticks, and our food was amazing and well worth the hilarious escapes we had that night! If you have never been Noda's it is fantastic restaurant and highly recommend it to everyone.
Jon's entree was served on a boat!
