One of my friends from Hiroshima recently moved to Tokyo for her new life. As we met in Hiroshima last, I said I would make a visit to Tokyo to have lunch/dinner together, but I was thinking it would be in Summer vacation or even later. What a surprise! I made it just in a month after our last meeting, having a business trip there.
There are many fabulous restaurants to go in Tokyo, then I was kinda lost in thought, because I couldn't choose any of them. But then, she suggested to go to her workplace for dinner. I asked what the restaurant would serve there, and she said, "Puerto Rican dishes." I could only guess it should be some kind of Latin American dishes, but simply had no idea what it would taste like. So, I was VERY interested in her suggestion.
On the way to the restaurant, she told that there's only one Puerto Rican restaurant in Japan so far, it's the restaurant where she works, and that's Ramichan Cafe, which a very famous baseball player runs with his wife. I knew she was fond of baseball game, I remembered that she worked at a restaurant where she could use Spanish at work, I had seen that she had visited Ramichan Cafe and taken pictures even before she moved in tokyo, BUT I didn't expect that this would be the place. Awesome!
Ah, and you know what, Ramichan kindly offered to take a picture together and we three had some chat, well she has a chance to talk with him every time she works though. His wife kindly explained about some dishes, and staff members were also nice.
I didn't take note, so I am not able to write any name of dishes that we ordered but the all dishes we had there were very delicious, and interesting. Some dishes contained a sort of banana, but it tasted like something between banana and potato. Mrs. Ramirez told that we don't have this banana in Japan, and yes I've never eaten it anywhere before. Somewhat chewy, somewhat soft, and.. yummy. The chorizo was also good. I'm already kinda fan of this Puerto Rican dishes, and would like to come again to try other menu!

Ramichan Cafe広島の友だちが一人新しい生活を求めて最近東京に引っ越した。最後に広島で会ったとき、今度は僕が東京に遊びに行くねとは言ったけど、夏とかもっと先を想定していたから、まさか今回出張が入って1か月越しにすぐ再会するなんて思ってもみなかった。
東京は美味しい食事処がたくさんある。ありすぎて、どこで食事をしようか決めかねた。そしたら、友だちは自分が働いているレストランで夕食はどうかと勧めてきた。どんな食事?と尋ねると、「プエルトリコ料理」とのこと。南米系とは思ったものの、さすがにどんな味付けの料理が出るのかよくわからなくて、すっごく興味が湧いた。
レストランに行く途中、今はまだ日本にプエルトリコ料理屋さんはこのレストランだけだと教えてもらった。それが彼女が働くレストランで、有名な野球選手が奥さんと経営する、あの「ラミちゃんカフェ」だとは!彼女が野球好きだとは知ってたし、レストランで働くって聞いてたし、そこでスペイン語使う機会があるって聞いてたし、ラミちゃんカフェで働く前からちょくちょくそこでの写真を見た覚えはあったけど、まさかそことは。す、すごい。
しかも、お店に行ったら、なんとラミちゃんが一緒に写真撮ろうって提案してくれて、ちょっと雑談した。奥さんからは料理の説明をしてもらった。レストランスタッフの方も気さくだ。
メモしなかったから、料理名書けないけど、オーダーした料理はどれも美味しかったし、興味深いものばかりだった。いくつかはバナナの仲間を材料につかってて、食感は何か、バナナとじゃがいもの中間というかんじ。ラミちゃんの奥さんが、日本には無い種類のバナナと教えてくれた。うん、確かに食べたことない。噛みごたえがあって、でも柔らかい。美味しかった。チョリソーも美味しかった。なんか、この一度の食事ですでにプエルトリコ料理が気に入ってしまった・・・。また行って、今度は違うメニューを頼んでみよう!
posted by takeshikm at 01:52
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