Friday, August 18, 2006

Sake anyone?
Although far from an expert in Japanese wines, I am enjoying sake. Tonight I split a bottle with a friend in the old Beijing Cafe in a sixties' plaza in the DC suburbs. One cool thing about Asian cuisine is that they give their entrees and beverages fun names. I had "Happiness Lamb." Happiness sizzles. However, when the sizzle is gone, it tastes kinda like beef. Nothing special. hhmm. The sake definitely enhanced the meal.

I don't understand the sake cups. By splitting the bottle, I had somewhere around 15 cups of sake. Good thing I had a movie theater to go to next door. The best sake cups I ever employed were in Annapolis. The sake focused the picture under the little convex glass on the bottom of the cup: pornographic sake.

I once ate at a fancy restaurant with a list of sakes and a little description of each. My favorite was call "The Root of Innocence." We had a second bottle after "The Root of Innocence," but I don't recall it's name. That's probably because of the sake-tini I had first. Maybe it has to do with where the root of innocence lies. Does it grow deep in the fields where the Happiness Lambs graze?

Anyway, the movie I saw was "Little Miss Sunshine." I recommend that everyone sees it as soon as possible - with or without sake.

3 comments:

Mom said...

Little Miss Sunshine was great. We laughed till we cried.
The little plaza was built in the 40's by FDR"s New Deal.

AM Kingsfield said...

Ahh, hence the "New Deal Cafe" across from the theater.

AM Kingsfield said...

I know e-typos are to be graciously overlooked, but is "Dairy of a Mad Black Woman" about Lactose intolerance?