Yaki Night!!!

So first off, thanks for everyone who showed up to yaki night. We had a HUGE turn out (a lot more than I expected) and thus the slight shortage in food at first.

Anyway yaki night was great, but perhaps it would be interesting to know what went behind the scenes in preparing for this event.

The first thing was to secure a place, in which we were lucky to have people living in troy hall (thanks Brad!). This was not so bad but trust me, everything else was quite an adventure for every one else that was involved in this event.

On my side of the story when I first went out to look at prices of the food, I had no clue where the korean market was. I kind of just jumped into my car, drove around Ktown and pretty much hoped that I would end up at a market eventually. Luckily my wandering process didn't take too long since I pretty much guessed correctly where I market would be.

From here Craig took on the lovely process of actually buying all the food once I put out some rough estimates of how much food we needed. Apparently Craig and Austen had quite an adventure at the Korean Market especially with the butcher man. I think you should ask Craig and Austen about the details because I'm sure they tell the story much better, but to sum it up they almost got added to the meat pile in the display case.

Once the shopping was done the torch was once again passed back to me as I scurried with some friends to cook the yakisoba, okonomiyaki, and yaki musubis. Here I found out that I'm not very good at making triangles as all my musubis turned out to be circles (many thanks to Julia for fixing them). As I ended up doing most of the prep work, Penny cooked the yakisoba, Josh marinated the chicken and Chizuru and Taka were nice enough to cook the okonomiyaki. So... if you liked either one of those dishes and want to know how to make them, you should go ask the people who cooked them =). Anyway, prep work started only 1 1/2 hours before the event since I was stuck in Lab till then so as you can imagine the kitchen scene was quite a mess as food was flying everywhere. I should've taken a before and after picture of my kitchen... it was pretty crazy.

Now the next problem was the grill. First of all we didn't buy enough charcoal, and second off the plate that held the charcoal was way too low from where the grill was. So in order to solve this problem Austen decided to use the tiles that were placed in the courtyard to lift the plate up (shhhhh don't tell anyone). The final thing left was to start a good fire... Thats where shinji's pyromania kicked in with the excessive lighter fluid, which resulted in flames which could've burnt off all of our eyebrows. But thanks to that the charcoal lit and it was time to start cooking food... and from there you all pretty much know the rest.

P.S.-Did I mention there was a flaming cookie? Lighter fluid really does wonders.