Taste of Japan in Hannover

Last Tuesday I had a job interview in Hannover. After the interview I met a friend to spend the rest of the day with me. I have never been to Hannover before so I had asked her to choose a Japanese restaurant for lunch. And she did pretty well: we went to 'Ichiban Grill- & Sushi-Restaurant' on the Friedirchswall. It is a nice-looking, modern restaurant which offers 'All-you-can-eat' on special times of the day. We got the lunch special for 11,90 €, that's quite good.

outside the restaurant

interior view from our seats

We could order up to 6 times and with 8 dishes each for one turn. By the way the offer is made via Tablet which was really comfortable^^ 

The variation of dishes were pretty good. They offer different kinds of sushi (maki & nigiri), salads and soups and some basic warm dishes like yakitori, grilled salmon, yakisoba, tempura, gyouza and so on. My friend concentrated on yakitori, tamago nigiri and cucumber tsukune (spicy salad) while I was trying many different things.

my drink: Japanese Sencha in this beautiful cup X3

round one sushi: her tamago nigiri & my two versions of California sushi

round one salads: wakame-, cucumber-salad & green salad with fried chicken

round one warm dishes: yakitori, grilled tofu & grilled butter fish

round two warm dishes: fried vegetables, yakitori (for my friend XD) and grilled sushi (besides another round of tamago nigiri & reddish maki)

I also forgot to make a picture of my spicy sepia salad of round two.
The third round consisted of another yakitori and cucumber salad for my friend and fried rice and teriyaki chicken for me. After that we were just full. But everything tasted good, was served very fast and it was alright comparing the price. I just missed the dessert *lol*

Hannover has also a connection to Japan because of the partnership with the city of Hiroshima. So in spring they hold also a cherry blossom feast and of course you find Japanese food in many restaurants.

seal of Hiroshima in the Hannover city hall

But Hannover is quite a nice city. The old town centre is great, the new City hall is a little castle and many nice spots are close to each other. So we managed to visit many places, do some shopping and end the day with a nice stay in a café in the station centre.

I really had a good day^__^

Sushi cake as a Blog Birthday present!

Because of Bentown's (by Chaoselfe) 3rd Blog Birthday I thought of what I could make for it. Three years of blogging are really amazing (I hope I will last so long, too) and Chaoselfe is so nice to host a contest in celebration of her blog birthday^^

Finally I decided to try a Sushi cake. So Happy Birthday and thank you for so many good recipes and other blogposts!

Here I go:

Cooking enough Sushi rice, mix it with vinegear mixture and mixed spices for onigiri and prepare some things for the filling. I chose sardines (because I don't like Tuna and in the end I was the one who must eat it *lol*), cucumber and Japanese omelette.

I used a bowl to form the cake. First I put plastic wrap in the bowl and a layer of rice. Then I filled in the sardines which I also mixed up with a bit of Japanese mayonaise^.^

Then another layer of rice, sliced cucumber and the omelette, then fill up with a last layer of rice. Push everything tight enough and then turn the bowl upside-down. Because of the plastic wrap the cake came out smoothly and got a perfect form. Then it looked like this:

As a polite host I also cut the cake for us:

sliced cake

piece of the sushi cake

Bon appétit and Happy Birthday! ^o^

Sushi o tabemashta

Yesterday I met with two friends in the sushi pub 'daikyichi' in Bottrop. It is a nice little venue in modern japanese style also with rolling sushi. But because we went there at lunch time we just ordered à la carte. But the sushi and all the starters are very delicious and also quite cheap!

Gyouza with dip (starter)

Hoso Maki Tamago [Ei]

I really like it there. The staff is polite and friendly, the dishes are great, everything's clean and the atmosphere is nice.

the back wall decoration

the conveyor

the entrance and the counter

The variety of sushi, starters and also sashimi is quite good as well. So I like to visit the daikyichi ^.^

the menu

So, till next time!

Sayonara ^-^/)