2015-04-18: Bedroom Banquet

We have a busy day planned for tomorrow. So today is a day to replenish energy stores and clear our minds. Time for a banquet in bed based on 7/11 food!

Food & Beverage Review: Bedroom Banquet

One of the little quirks here is that even a simple plastic bag gets a little bit of fanciness applied

Lemon Highball (sake, ice, lemon juice and sparkley water) and chips. Lemon highballs are a common mixed drink at most of the Izakaya. To me they taste mostly like water. This makes the lemon juice a more important element than normal. I could only find one lemon juice and it wasn't so great. Further testing required.

Smoked cheese and Egg Salad. This makes the whole thing healthy. The eggs are really good looking even just from the 7/11. Nice golden yolks and not cooked solid.

Gyoza on shredded cabbage with Japanese squeezey mayonnaise. Japan has an almost Belgian or Dutch love of mayonnaise. The Japanese mayo typically comes in the kewpie doll squeezey bottles and comes out star shaped which is pretty cool.

Fried chicken (because Nagoya) and rice. The chicken is called something like Aga Dori and Dori is at the end of lots of street names so I am guessing it is street style fried chicken or something. Basically boneless fillets deep fried with a thin batter. Pretty good, available at almost every corner shop but sold out Fri and Sat evenings quickly. People have opinions on where the best ones are. I think Family Mart has been recommended more than 7/11. But Family Mart is like an extra fifty metres down the road.

Assorted meats with varying sauces. We probably need more plates. Many of the sauces are of the demi glace / red wine reduction types in theory. The burger style patties are the best of these usually and often have cheese stuffed inside like a secret treasure.

I am a master of presentation. I may have also been a little drunk by the time we got to this.

Rating: 6.5/10 (Much better than anticipated, dessert was a step too far)

All things being equal convenience store food is not so bad and has a pretty good range of options. I am not sure I would recommend this particular menu to anyone except the fried chicken. Good and juicy and greasy.