The next morning, Carola was fortunately feeling much better and we got exactly the same breakfast as the day before. I told you, we really liked it! I also have to mention, that they first wanted to give me apple sauce to go with it, but I had read somewhere on the DIS that people could get grapes, so I asked for them and that was no problem.
Once again we were at Epcot at rope drop (I love the jet lag in this direction: You fell like you slept in when you wake up at 6 am as it is noon for our internal clocks!) and were quite hungry for our lunch at Japan!
Teppan style dining is not very common in Germany and those restaurants are usually extremely expensive. I had always wanted to try this, so was very excited that we would be able to try out the at this time still pretty newly renovated Teppan Edo.
Our ADR was for 12 pm, that was the first seating for lunch. We were one of the first parties to check in and were told to wait in the entrance area. They have small Japanese opening ceremony here, which was a nice start:
We were then lead to our table. There are several rooms behind each other, each with four tables:
Above each table is a huge fume hood
confused:
that's the word my dictionary comes up with???):
At the start of the meal our server brought out hot towels. These were great!
For my drink I got an iced green tea. It was ok, but I have had better iced green teas before:
Carola and I decided to get a couple of appetizers and the split an entree.
We wanted to try something we never had heard of before: Edamame, young soy beans:
They were absolutely delicious!!
I have since realized that many Japanese restaurants here offer them and I order them regularly. But very few times, have I gotten ones that were as good as at Teppan Edo!
We also had Assorted Tempura (shrimp, chicken breast and seasoned vegetables with a Japanese dipping sauce). The picture shows it half eaten:
The tempura was nice, but not spectacular. I think we focused so much on the edamame that we did not really notice the tempura.
For our entree we had the sirloin steak and chicken combination. Sharing was no problem, we just got each half a portion on our plates. And we did not have to share the sauces! This was good as the meat itself is rather flavourless in my opinion. But the sauces were fantastic, so we really liked the combination. Our chef made quite a show and I was happily snapping away, so here are lots of pictures:
setting up:
distributing the sauces, while explaining them:
the making of an onion volcano:
the chef making fun of my camera:
serious meat preperation:
my chicken portion (edited to add: I think it must be the steak after closer looking at it, sorry for the confusion!) (that's a quarter of a full meal or half of my split portion)
I totally forgot to take a picture of the chicken, I think I had eaten it by the time I got the steak.
Overall we really enjoyed Teppan Edo, but we found it a bit over prized for what it offers. We are not planning a return trip this year, we rather want to try something new. However, I will happily go there again on another trip. I am really glad I finally got to experience this style!
(We thought this was bad, but the flight back was even worse!!
) Therefore we got to bed much later than expected.
