Last nite I ate at Imanas tei, I love this restaurant, the food there is so tasty.  You know it’s a great Japanese restaurant when you see lots of Japanese customers.  I love seeing Japanese chefs in my Japanese restaurants, I know that you don’t have to be Japanese to cook great Japanese food but it helps the feel of the restaurant.  When I go to a izakaya restaurant it feels like I am taken away to some place other than Hawaii.  One of my high school friend works there and we had a very nice table.  Everything was so good, I ate toro, maguro, hamachi kama, dynamite and crab dynamite.  I even had steak, that night I was really in the mood for steak but loved the idea of eating Japanese food.  The one thing I notice about Japanese food is that of all the cuisine it’s probably the only one besides Italian that I could eat everyday.  I  love Korean and Chinese food but don’t think I could enjoy it everyday.  That’s the great thing about living in Hawaii you have all this diversity in food, some of the styles are mixed giving you a different dish all together.  I just love food, I wish I was a food critic.  To get paid for dining out and enjoying yourself, that would be my ideal job.