We celebrated our recent wedding anniversary at the Kanji Japanese Steakhouse located in Heath, Ohio. We opted to sit at the Hibachi grill and selected the chicken and steak Hibachi dinner entrées. Mushroom soup and a house salad with yummy-yummy sauce served as starters, followed by the Hibachi Chef working his entertaining and magical skills on the built-in grill by cooking us up our meat along with mushrooms, zucchini, bean sprouts, onions, and carrots and two shrimp appetizers. The chef offered for me to taste the fried rice that he was fixing for most of the other people at our table and it was tasty as well. The Chef also provided us with delicious ginger sauce and more yummy-yummy sauce.
Jokingly, the Chef shared that it was his first day, so I responded by saying, “Are we in trouble?”, and the server quietly shared that the chef has actually been working there for ten years. It was all in good fun: the chef threw balls of rice at those of us who wanted to try to catch the rice in our mouths; I was the only one- I think it is because I took my sunglasses off to focus. Lol! Near the end of the cooking time, he pretended to squirt soy sauce at my face and it was just a brown rope coming out of the bottle. The talented Hibachi Chef also threw up an egg still in its shell and it landed on the top of his hat. Later, he tipped his head down, which caused the egg to fall out of his hat and the egg landed and cracked open directly on the side corner of his spatula blade causing the egg and yoke to conveniently spill onto the grill. It was a fun dining experience and we plan to ask for the same Hibachi Chef on our next visit.
