Last night, I went to a restaurant called Daigo. It's probably the fanciest vegetarian restaurant in the world. I'm a total carnivore, and this was the first time I ever actually felt stuffed from eating vegetables. This was one of the appetizer plates we got. The meal was full of rare Japanese fruits and veggies, like the little red thing in the white lacey cover. I can't remember what it was called.
We were seated in a beautiful ochanoma (tea room) at the back of the restaurant. It used to be some very wealthy person's home. 
The dinner was a 10-course or so meal with a custom menu written on a little folding washi booklet with a toothpick wedged into it. Thanks, Joi, for taking my mom and me to the fanciest vegetarian restaurant in the whole world!
Looks pretty taste but, how much did ya pay for it... and, were ya hungry agian in an hour?
Posted by: William | September 25, 2008 at 10:40 PM
the little red thing in a white cover looks like some kind of physalis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalis
yum!
Posted by: buriedatsea | September 26, 2008 at 08:39 AM
Looks like you guys had real feast. Wish that we had known about Daigo when we were in Tokyo last June. By the way, did they have yuba on the menu?
Posted by: grizztrek | September 26, 2008 at 04:41 PM
Unf, only one day I have the money like Joi to afford something like this.
Posted by: MeaningOfLife | October 01, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Hate to be a pedant... nah, I love it really... but Daigo isn't vegetarian - they use katsuo dashi (though they claim to serve shojin ryori).
Posted by: rikon | October 09, 2008 at 01:36 AM