Went to Benihanas last night with some friends. If any of you haven't heard of it, Benihanas is a hehachi restaraunt (you essentially sit at a big grill and a chef comes out and cooks your Japanese food in front of you, the whole while flinging his spatula and performing all sorts of cool tricks).

Anyway, it was expensive, but pretty good! My favorite trick was scooping a whole spinning egg up on his spatula and then flinging it the air and catching (and impaling it) on the edge of the same spatula. Thought that was neat. Oh also, when he was done with the three eggs he scooped the shells up on one spatula and then flung them in an arch over his shoulder and with the other hand caught them all in one bowl.

Anyway, it's a great time. Not sure if they have them in Europe (although I'm sure they have to have something similiar) but you should all check em out!

you mean while i was yelling at kids on a Saturday night, you were at a japeneses food flinging restraunt.


Well you really misseed out. becuase we watched War of the Worlds 2 times. and i didn't have any drinks only coolaid.




so ha to you

Sounds like a cool place! We dont have any in the UK, well I've not heard of them, I may be wrong though.

If we want to see food throwing in a restaurant we just take our Joshua lol

I thought it was called Teppanyaki and Wasabi Teppanyaki in Leeds does that kind of stuff. http://www.wasabiteppanyaki.co.uk/home.htm

Their chefs like to play catch with the punters, they toss little bits of omlette to the guys and the game is to catch it in your mouth. Of course, the secret is in the throwing as much in the catching and they are pretty accurate shots. We went there for my mate Tim's stag night.

What is it about those guys and eggs? I remember he was chucking whole eggs about too, juggling them and throwing them up and catching them in his chef's hat and stuff.

The Genghis Khan Mongolian BBQ does that here in Sydney but it's (obviously) not Japanese. They cook with these long sticks and toss everything about -- it's a wonder no one has had their eye out yet!

Now again, see... something is getting lost in the translation.

Mongolian BBQ as I understand it, is nothing to do with flashy cooking.

It's a big buffet of raw food & flavours and you fill your bowl with whatever mix takes your fancy to the chef, who cooks it for you.

I would agree with the sticks, though that seems to vary. The MB in London I used to use was sticks, the one in Sowerby Bridge is all quite ordinary wok action.

I prefer Indian food :)

Mongolian BBQ is the same thing here Stef. Get your raw ingredients, bring it to the chefs.

[quote:c39b69b339="Eveshka"]I prefer Indian food :)[/quote:c39b69b339]

And I had a lovely chana gosht karahi for dinner tonight :)

chicken makhani is my favorite :)

ooh... yes, a murgh makhani can be a good choice. Problem tends to be that 20 different places have 20 different interpretations of what it should be like and the one which made the really good version sadly closed.