Sweet and Sour Pork

Several of us ate at a Chinese restaurant called Sai Kon Tan in Akasaka last night. Shown above is the main course, sweet and sour pork.

The appetizers included raw sea bream in a garlic sauce, eggplant in a peanut sauce, shark in a gelatin like base, chicken in a black bean sauce, and grated daikon radish. Then there was a salad with cilantro, green onions, and thin glass noodles. It was a bit spicy. Followed by potatoes very, very thinly sliced they were almost grated. Then the sweet and sour pork. The pork was in large chunks that had to be broken up before they could be eaten. The pork was cooked just right, and there was definitely much more pork than breading. Then there was tofu in a spicy red chili sauce served over rice. And for dessert there was an almond jelly, which is sort of like a white, opaque gelatin.

The food was excellent. I meant to get more photos of the food, but it was attacked pretty much as soon as it was set on the table.