Yesterday night we went to a local Japanese restaurant for dinner. This place is more authentic and is run by an old Japanese guy. We've seen Japanese company men meeting here for dinner and drinks for the couple of times we've been here.
For yesterday's dinner, we ordered amaebi, which is sweet shrimp sushi. We ordered this because they had these huge live shrimp (about 7 inches long) in a tank in the front of the restaurant. When getting amaebi from other Japanese restaurants, it was always a piece of sushi rice with a raw shrimp tail on top, and a deep fried shrimp head.
This time the amaebi arrived on a huge plate. There were the usual raw shrimp tails on top of sushi rice pieces, and also the huge shrimp heads from those large shrimp from the tank. But these shrimp heads weren't deep fried... and they were still moving. They were the entire front parts of the shrimps and were stood up on the plate, with head, eyes, legs, and antennae. And everything was moving. We were a little freaked out, haha. I moved the plate off to the other side of the table until the shrimp stopped moving, which was more than a couple of minutes. I felt pretty bad for the shrimp. Later on the waitress came by and asked if we wanted to have the heads deep fried or made into a soup. We chose the soup.
Very interesting, but a little too authentic and fresh for us. Fresh is always ideal, but I don't need to see that much proof about how fresh something is. I love to eat shrimp, but I think I will take a short break from eating shrimp, haha.
