Nana_Kat

Thank you all for the feedback :). I will try it out. I do in fact like eating the tail first, especially if they get that little bit of extra an in the tail .

Hi, I hope I am in the right forum but I was just wondering if anyone had good recipes specifically for taiyaki (the fish-shaped little cakes usually filled with An--similar to dorayaki). I had really good ones at a restaurant down in California and have been trying to replicate that at home with my taiyaki mold. I've tried Dorayaki recipes but I'd like something less pancake-y. I've also heard that there are recipes using some sort of strawberry or strawberry cream filling (that would be fun) but searching on the internet is hard when I can't read the japanese characters. _ANY_ help would be appreciated .

Ah Yes the Russian Bakery Piroshky-Piroshky! It's still there. Their green onion and cheese rolls are terrific! My sister and always try to eat something else when we go there but we always just end up ordering one green onion roll each. We were awful was and shared--well I'll just say more than two--in one sitting. One thing we would really like to try are the Apple Cinnamon Rolls. When they are making them fresh, you can walk by the shop and get a whiff of the a heady, fragrant smell of the cinnamon, yeast dough, and the sliced apples that they stuff them with.

I heard the Costco food store is going to be where the old Bellevue Kmart was in Bellevue at 148th and Main.

So Sorry! I meant to say Kojo of Japan as the restaurant which had good Ginger Pork. Not Edo. Not sure where my mind was.

Well after all the glowing reviews we had read about En (in the Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, "10" ratings on Citysearch...), my boyfriend and I decided to try it for dinner. Unfortuneately we were a bit disappointed. Maybe it would have been better to go at lunch as most of the reviewers seemed to have, but to us our dinner just was "Ok" and a little overpriced for what it was. The decor and feel of the place is kind of cute and hip with red walls, floors and Asian decor which is kind of interesting as the food was supposed to be more "homestyle" Japanese as the reviews said. We started off with the Kushiage appetizer--tempura-style fish, chicken and vegetables dipped in panko (breadcrumbs) and fried. They were hot and tasty but kind of just resembled something I could have just made at home. The dipping sauce was just the regular tonkatsu sauce that you get at other Japanese restaurants, nothing very exciting. My boyfriend's Chicken Tatsura--a seasoned chicken dish with vegetables--was "good, but kind of dry" according to him. For my entree I had the Shoga Pork a simple stir-fried ginger and onion pork dish. It was ok, and it's probably really good for onion-lovers as it came with a lot of them, but I strangely felt as though I had eaten the dish before. The answer to which was--yes I had! It was really just like the Ginger Pork I get at the mall at Edo of Japan (Northgate Mall and Bellevue Square)! Sure the portion at the mall is probably not as large, but the ~$6 I pay there includes rice and seems to have more ginger flavor as well. After little extras were added to our bill like steamed rice for two and green tea, our bill--not including tip--came to $33.00. Though the atmosphere was nice--as was our server, in the end my partner and I felt like we would have felt the same amount of satisfaction food-wise if we really had eaten at the mall. To wash out the taste of having eaten over-priced mall food, we skipped the dull dessert selections (ice cream and mochi) and later went out for Ben & Jerry's.