There are many restaurants in Mito. Some are American restaurants (like Denny's) but serve food that westerners would not recognize (spaghetti with fish eggs). Some are genuinely Japanese like ramen shops. There are also Korean BBQ shops, Mexican restaurants, and French Bakeries. Beware of the French Bakeries; they do not use butter...
Today's restaurant of choice is the all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ.
This means that you serve as much raw meat as you want from the buffet, and then you cook it on the grill in the middle of the table. The restaurant supplies thongs for flipping the raw meat and then you use your chopsticks to remove the meat and eat it. YUM!
The meat is delicious, but the slices are so very very thin. Although the thin-ness helps the meat to cook faster, it also means that it is hard to eat your monies worth in meat (especially since you have to share the griddle with the whole table). Even so, it is really fun flipping the meat. If you forget to watch your meat then it catches on fire - like a good, greasy, outdoor BBQ.
The tinfoil wrapping is spaghetti noodles.
You can see my plate of raw meat, waiting to be cooked.
The restaurant does not only serve meat. As you can see, there is fried sweet tofu, sushi, fried chicken, and french fries as well as curry and rice, udon, crepes, fruit, ice-cream, and a drinks bar (free refills on non-alcoholic drinks), and more.
They even serve natto... which I unfortunately did not know till I ate it.
But they do serve a lot of raw meat.
...and fruit (which is just as expensive as meat in Japan).
The Korean BBQ is not my favorite restaurant, but it is definitely an experience worth having!
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