Ninjas

This past Saturday, I celebrated my friend Kristin's birthday at Ninja. Ninja is a Japanese restaurant in New York City located in the West Village. The restaurant is 2 floors and is decorated like a ninja castle, which they like to call the "rock garden." Once you walk in, a ninja greets you and takes you in an elevator to the next floor. Once you get out of the elevator, there are more ninjas waiting for you. They ask you if you want to go on the "ninja path" or the "safe path," so of course we went the ninja way. You walk through this dark, winding passageway and ninjas pop out of nowhere and scare you. This is absolutely hilarious. The safe path is just a walk to your table, which is definately not an exciting ninja experience. Once you make it through the "ninja path," you are escorted to your table. We had about 30 people with us, so you could just imagine how thrilled the ninjas were.

We were all settled into our seats and the ninjas brought out tons of ninja-like things like swords and nunchucks, which were fake of course. They brought out our food and drinks and put on a ninja show for us. I loved every minute of it. We got tons of saki and sushi, but the best part was when they brought out the salads. On the salad, there was a crisp cheesy like covering over the bowl and the ninjas came by and broke open your salad with chopsticks. These are extremely crafty ninjas might I add.

Once dinner was over, the ninjas brought out dessert, which was up in flames. Awesome. They then handed out ninja stickers and snuck up on us to decorate us. Overall, this was an amazing time. It was very entertaining and very funny. I recommend everyone of all ages to go to this super ninja castle. I guarantee you won't regret it!

Vocabulary Review

Greet: (verb) to address with some form of salutation; welcome

Passageway: (noun) a way of passing into, through, or out of something, as within a building or between buildings; a corridor, hall, alley, or the like

Escorted: (verb) to attend or accompany as an escort

Crafty: (adjective) skillful in evil schemes; cunning; sly; deceitful

Recommend: (verb) to represent; urge; suggest

Guarantee: (verb) to ensure for another; promise

Vocabulary Practice

1. My friends and I walked through the dark ____________ to get to the parking lot.

2. The host of the party ___________ all of the guests at the front door.

3. I _____________ that you are going to love the cheesecake here.

4. The man ____________ the woman to the table at the restaurant.

5. My teacher ____________ this wonderful book.

6. The workers at the haunted house were so spooky and __________.

Grammar Point - Past Tense

The past tense is a verb tense expressing action, state, or being in the past of the current moment, or prior to some other event, whether that is past, present, or future.

Example: This past Saturday, I celebrated my friend Kristin's birthday at Ninja.

Practice: Can you write a short story of 10 sentences in the past tense?

Questions

Have you ever been to or heard of Ninja?

Do you like restaurant that are entertaining?

What is your favorite restaurant?