To kickoff Todd's 30th Birthday, Jeff took us out to dinner at Ninja, a themed Japanese restaurant at the bottom of Manhattan. The restaurant is laid out like ninja castle made up of all private rooms so we had a cozy room to ourselves.
Their theme is, of course, the Ninja arts. Turns out Ninja cooking is pretty tasty. And most of their dishes have fun names and some sort of accompanying special effect, like volcanoes and dry ice. For example, Todd ordered the Red Pond II (oven-roasted Black Cod in a bloody spicy pond), which came in a smoking basket stack. Scott and Todd also got very excited because they had a mixed drink made with Domaine de Canton (ginger liquor), even if it turned out to be a little weak and too sweet.
Here we have a flaming Ninja start that the waiter magically turned in to a chocolate Ninja star dessert.
Probably the most visually stunning was the Bonzai, a very realistic-looking tree scupture with pie crust twists and pistachio leaves growing out of a sweet potato custard with chocolate pebbles.
All in all it was a fun experience!
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