05-17 Belated Mother’s Day Celebration Part II

Steven/Amanda made the reservation at Sunshine Café at 6 PM.  There weren’t too many people in the restaurant at the time.

This is inside the restaurant.  The table was set at the middle of the restaurant.  Group of 8 is the large number of reservation for Sunshine Café.  Later hour the restaurant was full, and some were waiting.

Here are the people of 7

No need to explain.  Sorry, it is not a good shot.  Hiroko should attend the school of learning how to take good photo.

Appetizers – Steven had already taken care to order all these appetizers 2 plates each

As usual Hiroko forgot to take photos.  Here are some left over. 

Spinach dish, Gyoza with sauce, Shumai, Tsukemono, Croquets, and Calamari were ordered.  Dan-san even ate the calamari because Richard asked him to eat.

These are the main dish

2 Ten-Soba (Tempura with Soba in hot sauce)

1 Ten Zaru-Soba (Tempura with cold soba)

Hiroko knew the Chicago Soba is not same as Yamagata Soba, but she ate the Ten Soba

Teruyaki-Chicken

Saba (broiled salted code)-Shioyaki

2 Tonkatsu dishes

Sukiyaki

There are not too much meat but lots of green onion in Sukiyaki

Hiroko appreciated so much to hear that Hiroko’s Tonkatsu and Sukiyaki are much better than these.

Thank you!

Thanks for Steven trying to treat everyone tonight, but Elsa and Lisa/Dave pitched in some of them to pay all these food.

Gochisosama! Thank you!  Oishikatta!  Everything were very tasty!

Various presents from everyone. 

Isn’t it good have Mother’s Day once a month?

Hiroko was cheered up with this gathering.  She was faced with some sad news from Japan.  It was very nice to talk to everyone and thinking about Hiroko’s sister a while.  Thanks to everyone for encouraging and understanding Hiroko.