Dinner at Chez Shea

 
 
Shinho and I had a wonderful dinner at the restaurant Chez Shea. Since this week and next week are "restaurant week" in Seattle and many upscale restaurants are participating and offer $28 prix fix menu. We went Chez Shea this spring and liked it a lot, so we went back. Everything was delicious. Top photo is my appetizer, Ahi Tuna Crudo, next one is Shinho's Wagyu Tataki. For Main course Shinho had 24hour Braised Beef and it melted in your mouth and demi sauce was outstanding. I had potato gnocchi and prawn. The cream sauce was delicious and prawn was perfectly cooked. The owner of the restaurant came to our table and said that she remembered we came in May. She is a wonderful hostess. This is really highly recommended French restaurant.

Citrus Ginger Salmon

 
I made this sauce with soy sauce, mirin, grated ginger and lemon juice. Mix all the ingredients and bring to boil and simmer for several minutes, then add a tablespoon of butter to finish. Pan roast salmon fillet and pour the sauce over the fillet.
Vegetables are asparagus with black sesame dressing, spinach ohitashi and miso soup.

Cabbage Roll

 
Is this originally a Portuguese dish? It is interesting how it became so popular in Japan. Everyone knows it as rolu kyabetsu and it goes well with rice. When it is cold outside, this is perfect dinner to warm you up.
Side dishes were avocado with nori and wasabi, broccoli salad and carrot scrambled egg.

Sesami Chicken

 
This was our children's favorite Chinese dish when they were young. I was making karaage (Japanese fried chicken), then I came up with sesame chicken. First, I deep fried chicken, then coated them with soy mirin mixture and add sesame seed. It was a little different from Chinese sesame chicken, but I think it was successful.

Side dishes were miso soup, sunomono, spinach namul, potato salad.

Ahi Poke

 
 
This is Hawaiian version of tuna sashimi. Dice sashimi grade tuna and add minced onion, sea salt, soy sauce, black pepper and sesame oil. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Before serve add nori.



Next one is sauteed daikon and fried beancurd (daikon to age no itameni).

Anniversary Dinner at jw

It was our 36th Anniversary yesterday. We celebrated at the new restaurant in Gig Har bor,jw. We have heard a lot of good things about this restaurant, so I was really looking forward to eating there. For starter, we ordered honey walnut shrimp, zucchini crisps and today's soup. All of them were tasty, if not extraordinary.For Main I had duck confit pappadelle. It was delicious. Shinho had wild boar bourgignion which I thought was the best dish. My mother had seared scallops and I think it was midiocre, because the scallops were a little over cooked. For the dessert, creme brulee was very good, but banana pudding was very dry and tough. The service was excellent. They gave us a sample of wine and as we told them this is our anniversary, they gave us "Happy Anniversary" card and one of the dessert was on the house. Overall, we liked the restaurant a lot. The price was very reasonable. We will definitely go back again.

Tofu Ankake

 
We have been over ate during vacation, so we need to go back to healthy meal. This is stewed tofu with vegetable and seafood. Other dishes are kimpira gobo, hijiki seaweed.