After a full day of shopping, we worked up an appetite and went to Benihana. Benihana is a Japanese temppanyaki restaurant, meaning that the chefs cook your food on a hibachi grill right in front of you. We went back in Salt Lake and it was the worst- no show from the chef and the food wasn't all that good. William promised me that not all of the Benihana's are like that and I needed to give it another chance. This one was MUCH better- we had a chef that did cool tricks like spinning his utensils, flipping shrimp into his hat, and also having a smoking/flaming onion- oh, and made a beating heart from the fried rice. I got the Benihana's Excellence- which is shrimp and teriyaki beef- and shrimp are always good, but the teriyaki beef was SO GOOD. The sauce was truly amazing- so flavorful. I just couldn't stop talking about how good it is. This is my definite recommendation- and their fried rice. They really have the best fried rice because normally I'm not a fan, but there's is great. But, while we had good food and a little show, that is not the main purpose of this post.
During the hour and a half that we were there, they sang happy birthday and the Japanese translation of "For He's and Jolly Good Fellow" while banging on the tambourine TWELVE times. It seems to me that Benihana is birthday central because we left at 7 pm and so I wonder how many times they ended up singing it by the end of the night. They bring you out a Buddha statue that has a candle in it and then take a Polaroid photo of you- so is that the major draw? Or is it the singing in a foreign language? Or the tambourine? The good food and a show at your table? I guess this is the place to go in the South Bay Area when you have a birthday.
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