Chanko Nabe Dinner

Wintertime is Chankonabe time ;-p! The restaurant serving this pot-dish is one of my favorite! – the interior looks nice and rustic and the food is delicious … the perfect place to invite some friends along for a nice dinner!

Echan and Bechan joined us for this dinner. Having a couple of friends coming along is always a good idea for a dinner like this … the more friends come the more variety of those little yummy side dishes can be ordered and enjoyed! Among those side dishes the grilled chicken slices on sour umeboshi (plum) sauce is my favorite followed by fried camembert cheese or grilled Hokke (mackerel).

The main dish is the Nabe (one-pot dish) which had heaps of different things in it: Tofu, fine sliced pork, Chickenballs, Vegetable, Shrimps, Mushrooms, Bean curd … and even some Oysters for Bechan. After eating everything the broth is then used to cook some Somen (pasta) in it.

When eating at this place we usually go back home with full stomaches and no need for breakfast/lunch the next day … but Echan brought some Swiss-Roll cake for desert so we left the place with a tiny bit of space for that one.