I intended to split this post over two days, because there
are so many pictures from the weekend, but I ran out of time yesterday. The abundance of fish dishes is due, in part,
to one of our meals being tapas. An array of tapas is simply my favorite way
to eat because you get to sample so many flavors and foods in one sitting,
without getting too full or wasting food.
I actually used to work at a tapas restaurant years ago, by design,
because there was no wasted food to carry back to the kitchen. And I cringe at wasted food.

We would tell patrons at the restaurant that tapas
began in Spain
when diners would cover their cocktail glasses with small plates to keep bugs
away – and then the small plates naturally started to be filled with small
bites of food. “Tapar” is the Spanish verb
meaning “to cover.”

Pictured below are three of the amazing selections we made
at Hiroshi Eurasian Tapas: grilled squid with mushrooms, moi (a Hawaiian
fish) in a foil pouch, and crusted tuna.

Also, not to be forgotten, our fancy dinner at La Mer…I
ordered the dorade, a type of fish I’ve never tried before. It arrived in a salty pastry crust, which our
waiter cut open tableside to reveal the succulent fish inside.