Sometimes the chefs at these places can be ‘playful’. They usually have us catching shrimp in our mouths like a bunch of baby birds going for a worm.
Absolutely. The best chefs put on a show while they cook the meal at your table and keep up a steady patter of jokes and one liners. I know the one we ate at regularly some chefs would make a volcano out of a sliced onion - filling it with oil and lighting it. My kids loved that. Every time we went they would yell "volcano, volcano" and the chef was always happy to oblige them. Some people just need to loosen up.