On Tuesday night I rode the E train with B and her DH to 25 Hudson Street and went underground to Ninja New York. Dawg joined us about 20 minutes later and we had a 4-hour ninja experience.

It was lady’s night so B and I got free champagne. B also ordered a sake tasting. DH had gin and tonics. Dawg, B, and I had Ninja Pepsi. Everyone had Ninja Tapwater. :grins:

And then… the food.

B’s 5-course meal:

Dawg’s 5-course meal:

My 5-course meal:

DH’s defiant 2-course meal:

Everything was delicious. It was my first time trying roe, and Dawg’s first time with sushi!

Highlights of the evening included: Lots of components of the meal being intentionally set on fire by the ninjas. B eating the carrot out of DH’s miso soup AFTER the ninja had warned us if he didn’t save his carrot he would be kept in the kitchen and carved into steaks. B having to make up for this error by effectively karate chopping her kirikabu with her bare hand before she even got a photo of it. B’s ninja star dessert arriving as an actual ninja throwing star instead of chocolate dessert, then ninja magic turning it into a chocolate dessert. Dawg’s rose mist dessert being activated (dry ice!). Seeing flashes of fire from other tables and hearing screams when people got scared by the ninjas. A (ok, I know how to say this in Chinese, not Japanese) baipeng/”whitey” ninja showing up to our table to do magic tricks for us. B and DH refusing to let us pay and paying for us, despite the fact that we had no way of driving them back home because Dawg had his work truck that has no back seat room. And the best highlight to everyone but me: Toilets that cleaned you “front to back” then dried you too. (I chose not to use those features, they freaked me out.)

UNFORTUNATELY Dawg’s camera had died earlier in the day during another event, and I had prepared my camera to put in my bag that morning before work then promptly forgot it on top of the couch. So, the only photos of this event are in B’s possession and I’m pretty sure she’s not putting any up until next week at the earliest. When/if she puts up photos I will point you in their direction.

Suffice it to say, despite DH coming down with the flu during dinner ( :frown: ), we all still had a fantastic time together. We were all supposed to spend Christmas Eve together too, but that’s a story for another post, and in retrospect at least we had ninja holiday together. :smiles: