"Anniversary ASA-GOHAN"

Yesterday Jonathan & I celebrated our 28th Anniversary.  
It is hard to believe we shared a life together for 28 long years.  Tell you the truth it doesn't feel that long at all.

In spite of the Japanese dinner we shared with a friend the night before, we decided to have a very traditional Japanese Breakfast "Asa Gohan" in Brooklyn.  I found this restaurant called "OKONOMI (as you wish)"  last year, but we didn't have a chance to try it yet.  The Anniversary was good excuse to finally go there to try it.

We also found that our friend's birthday is only 2 days away, so we decided to ask her to join us.  We met her at the subway station to cross the East River.

The tiny restaurant has only 12 seats, and they serve only set breakfast menu.  But they always have a choice of main fish dishes.  
It is a very traditional breakfast ICHI-JU SAN-SAI.  Rice and Miso soup(ichi-ju) and three small dishes(san sai) to accompany them.  
The Atmosphere is very quint.  It almost felt like we're sitting in a small restaurant somewhere in Japan, even though one of chef was non Japanese.  We had such a great time in the Willamsburg section of Brooklyn.  That was perfect way to started our 29th Year.

As you can see we finished everything we ordered.  That included side orders of "ONSEN TAMAGO" which is very slow cooked whole egg that you often find in ONSEN(Hot Spring in Japan).  They recommend that we mix and pour over 5 Grain Rice... which was delicious!

By the way, we chose all 3 kinds of fish they still had for the day, Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, and Tile Fish.  And they came with very colorful Pickled Vegetable and Spinach with Tofu Sauce and small square shaped Omelet.

They were just as perfect as you can get.  I'll go back there any time...

Before we left to get good coffee at "Blue Bottle" I needed to freshen up.  
In there, I found an Antique Mulberry Stencil for Kimono was displayed in the wall. That was another reminder of great Japanese Culture.