In Florals With The Girls

I woke up, bounded out of bed and decided to wear not to wear black today. (It must be lady J's influence.) I dug out an old dress (flea market buy!) from the dusty depths of the wardrobe and put it on. I'm not sure if it screams 'me!', but it was a comfortable get-up for a day out.

There was a lunch date at Tatsuya with the girlfriend and her little lass. We plonked ourselves at the table, and once the little lass charmed the servers, we terrorized them with our orders for some tweaking to the usual dishes. Some sashimi and sushi were in order, along with toddler-friendly eats.

We shared had a fruit and vegetable salad. Loved those pear strips within. Made the salad crunchy and sweet. For lil'Missy, lunch consisted of steamed Japanese rice, tamago, tofu, a big bowl of clear mushroom soup, and a whole steamed yellowtail cheek. Yes, you read right. Lil'Missy loves her fish. She gingerly took a dainty bite of the yellowtail cheek and gave us a bright smile. She emphatically nodded "More fish." It wasn't a giant fish cheek, but it was sizeable, and she steadily finished it all by herself. I was majorly impressed.

Come to think of it, lil'Missy probably ate more than her mommy and I combined. I mean, sure, we polished off the sashimi and chirashi. But the little lass finished all her rice and soup which came in adult portions. And there was that fish. Her preferences have shifted since a year ago, but her very healthy appetite remains unwavering.

She was quite upset when we didn't allow her to part-take our desserts of plum wine jelly and melon. She's still got a cough and shouldn't be eating melon. The other contained alcohol. So that was that. We distracted her by telling her that she would get strawberries. Luckily she loves strawberries. So the server went off to the kitchen to get 6 beautifully deep red sweet ones for her. She merrily ate them up and didn't share any with us. Hmmmpff.