Eating Our Way Through Midori's Menu

We had a goal: To eat our way through Midori's menu.  Midori's is a little restaurant in our neighborhood with delicious Japanese food.  It's really a home converted into a restaurant and is run by a group of ladies that we assume are all related.  They are cute and absolutely delighted when we come.  I think they feel honored to have foreigners come to the restaurant. They have a variety of favorite Japanese foods.

Katsu don may be my favorite thing I've had there.  Katsu don is a fried pork cutlet served over a bowl of rice with a special sauce with caramelized onions and eggs in it.  It is delicious. Served with Miso soup.

The tempura tower is the most impressive of their dishes- well that and the fried chicken.

They even tempura an egg- don't ask me how.

Oyako don buri (Chicken and egg and onions over rice)  It's the same as katsu don, but is chicken instead of pork.

Ramen noodles are a favorite in Japan.  In fact, there are ramen shops on every corner.  They are mostly only open for lunch.  The noodles are delicious.  They are topped by a variety of different things- you choose.

This is the fried chicken set to be consumed by Elder Luke Myers.  Now that's a lot of chicken!

This is the curry set

Elder Hansen had the tower of terror(it starts as the tower of tempura, but by the end you're calling it the tower of terror!)

Over the months we were making our way through the menu, and really quite enjoying the experiment.  Then one evening, we went to eat there and found this:

It says that Midori's is closed until further notice.  It was run by the same five delightful ladies all the time.  We enquired at the store across the street and found out that the owner is sick and in the hospital.  We don't know what kind of illness, but it must be serious.  It's been over a month now.   This place did a booming business.  The parking lot was always full.  The locals loved going there.  We are missing Midori's.  We are missing the sweet ladies there who always treated us so nice.  We hope she heals quickly!!!    And, of course we are missing the delicious, inexpensive, and authentic Japanese food.