Tonight Leo and I went to Pentagon City in the torrential rains to do some shopping. Then he was hungry, so we dashed across the square to Asia Bistro for dinner. It was surprisingly crowded in there, and the bar was jam packed with young professionals getting drunk.
Leo started with a calimari-type appetizer that was quite interesting; the squid rings were huge, looking more like small onion rings, and they were lightly and delicately breaded before they were deep fried and they were very tender; it also came with a very good, spicy, different dipping sauce than the usual Italian marinara. His main course was a bento box of shrimp and vegetable tempura with a huge, disgusting pile of kim-chee (LOL...can you tell I'm not a fan?), some steamed white rice, and a green salad he didn't eat. He washed it all down with a "Bistro mojito."
My first course was a very tasty takko salad with a bed of greens topped with sliced, cold, marinated baby octopus and then shreds of daikon and carrot, and some thinly sliced rings of onion that was very tasty. My main course was their generic sushi dinner, since I wasn't in the mood to make decisions. It was actually pretty good, with about eight "chef's choice" sushi nigiri (their tuna was especially fresh, bright red, and good) and then a California roll. Dessert was a "crispy banana," a banana cut in half, tempura-battered and fried, then presented on the plate with a drizzle of honey.
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