Our final event of the Wellington On A Plate season is a
film showing at the Roxy Cinema. The Roxy, with its attached restaurant CoCo,
has pioneered food and film experiences for a number of years, and now regularly
host “Eat The Film” events where a film is shown, and whenever food or drink is
mentioned or consumed in the film, a similar dish or drink ( or one inspired by
the sequence) is served to you whilst you watch the film.
This was pretty much what we were expecting with this event.
They were showing five films inspired by the five senses, and we’d selected the
final film, Sweet Bean, which was all about taste. Sweet Bean is a Japanese
film, and it centres around the making of dorayaki pancakes, which contain a
sweet bean paste called an. When we arrived we were served with an okonomiyaki –
a Japanese pancake; and a cocktail, Before The Sun Shows His Face (a line from
the film) made up of apple, lemon, cherry blossom, and ginger mixed with Zenkuro
New Zealand sake and Roku Japanese gin, and served with a salted plum.
That turned out to be all the comestibles served with this
event. We settled down to watch the film. It’s about the relationship between
the pancake maker, his customers, and an old lady who makes the bean paste.
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