Izakaya Sanpei

It was C's birthday today so 4 of us went all the way out to Canton for Japanese to celebrate her big 2-3 (so young!) Anyway, so this was the first time I've had Japanese out here in the midwest and I have to say it was better than I expected lol.

We started out with a chicken teriyaki + tempura combination dinner. This was pretty standard, not blow-me-away amazing but not bleck terrible. I liked how the teriyaki sauce they used on the chicken wasn't your standard sticky teriyaki. Tempura is always great...who can say no to deep fried shrimp and vegetables? :)


chicken teriyaki with potatoes and green beans on the side


tempura

We also ordered a red dragon roll (basically a dragon roll but with tuna instead of eel), a sumo roll (it had eel and other fish), and a 007 roll (it had shrimp tempura, eel, some other stuff...topped with unagi sauce it seemed like) as our rolls. They were..ok. I think the best of the three was probably the 007 roll.


red dragon roll


sumo roll + 007 roll

The highlight of the night though was the kamonabe (duck hot pot). Mmm the broth was delicious. C said they probably used duck broth and we all tasted some mushroom in it too but it was very flavorful and K wanted to drink all of it lol. I'm coming to love hot pot lol. There's no photo of it but we topped off the hotpot with 2 servings of udon, just like the Japanese do :) It was yummy!



For dessert, (of course we couldn't say no to dessert!) we got the 4 flavors of ice cream they had to offer. We also asked them to do a happy birthday thing for C, which they happily agreed to do :) So we had a plate of grapes and oranges, green tea, red bean, and vanilla ice cream, and a scoop of orange sherbet to bring us into food coma bliss.



I have to say it was an enjoyable night out with great company, good service, and decent food :)