2009 Tokyo Day 4

Place: various. Tokyo, Japan.

Course #1: Hors d'oeuvre, at a wedding at Hikawa Kaikan (氷川神社). Kawagoe.

Course #1: Sweet beans with gold-flake blemishes (left).

Course #2: Steamed sea bream with sakura tartar sauce.

Course #3: Lobster sashimi with three-sauce combination.

Course #4: Shark's fin soup royal.

Course #5: Baked seafood wrapped in origami with Spanish mackerel spring roll.

Course #6: Filet Mignon with truffle sauce.

Course #7: Three-color termari ball sushi (wrapped).

Course #7: Three-color termari ball sushi (unwrapped).

Course #8: vanilla ice cream sandwich with a decadent fruit sorbet.

Course #9: Wedding cake.

Chicken nugget at 鳥芳 in Takashimaya. Shinjuku.

Fried crab salad at Takashimaya. Shinjuku.

Sashimi platter at Sakai (酒意), an izakaya. Shinjuku.

Rating: 2 stars to the chicken nuggets at 鳥芳 in Takashimaya. Shinjuku.