03/30/06 11:45 PM
As a young bachelor fresh out of college, I lived on a meager ration of burritos, chili, and random other things that were easy to fix. There were lots of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and raw vegetables, which were all pretty good for me but not very adventurous (eating Chinese food was considered going out on a limb).
Eventually, I met some friends who liked some different food, and they got me interested in different things like Indian food, etc. Then, I met my wife and she introduced me to the joys of even more great food, including Thai and Greek (real Greek, not just gyros). For our first Valentine’s Day together, we ate at an Ethiopian place and it felt like I had discovered some new, insanely exciting realm of food that I didn’t even know had existed before.
At any rate, along the way I discovered that sushi was really indeed quite good, despite nearly a lifetime of people wrinkling their noses and exclaiming “raw fish!” whenever the word was mentioned. Other than Ethiopian food (of which there are no local restaurants), sushi has become my single favorite food to eat. TG and I try to get out and eat it once every couple months if we can afford it, and usually end up gorging ourselves a bit silly on it, coupling the meal with a Sapporo or two, some blasts of wasabi and slivers of pickled ginger for good measure. Oh my, I’m drooling just thinking about it.
So yeah, the plan is for sushi this weekend in celebration of my friend Ryan’s birthday (happy birthday, yo!). Sushi will be purchased, Sapporo’s will be imbibed, and I will go home with a bulging belly and a smile on my face. I can’t wait.
March 31st, 2006 at 9:13 am
SUSHI!
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:04 am
I loves me some tamago.
April 2nd, 2006 at 10:31 am
We went. We saw. We ate.
Between TG and I, I think we put down something like 34 pieces of food. Had a couple pieces of smoked salmon, an order of Philadelphia rolls, tempura, avocado rolls, California rolls. A salad, a cup of soup, a couple beers, a healthy dose of wasabi, and I was feeling good.
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:00 pm
The bummer about sushi is the inconsistancy between resturants for items of the same name. I travel a fair amount, and I like sushi a lot, so I tend to try out the local sushi joints whenever I hit a new town.
Here in Los Alamos, the “Alaska Roll” has crab, cucumber, and rice on the inside; salmon and avacado on the outside in a pretty striped configuration. A place I went to in Hawaii had an Alaska Roll who’s central ingredient was salmon roe (which I detest). No avacado, crab, or stripes.
Add to this my observation that the more “authentic” the resturant, the less description (or English) there is in the menu, and it’s sometimes difficult to know what you’re going to get.
Favorite roll to date: “Crazy Roll” at Origami in Los Alamos. It’s a spicy tuna concoction in a wide roll configuration, with the entire thing tempura-fried and then drizzled with that thick brown sauce that I’m afraid to ask about. Yum.
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:02 pm
“We went. We saw. We ate.”
Would that be Veni Vidi Yummy?
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:55 pm
I’m a big fan of the plain old avocado rolls, although I think that the Philadelphia rolls (smoked salmon, cucumber, and cream cheese!) are a close second.
I know what you’re saying on the consistency, though. There are two places in town and while one isn’t exactly horrible, the other place (the one we went to last night) is much better. We had something with baked crab in it last night that was quite good as well.
Ah, who am I kidding. I’d eat that stuff a couple times a week if I could afford it.
April 2nd, 2006 at 7:37 pm
I avoid anything with cream chesse (not a fan), so I didn’t try the Philadelphia Rolls. Teri and I did order something that sounds similar to your “Crazy Roll,” Mouser, sans the “spicy.” Quite good. I’ve only eaten sushi at Kabuki (Lincoln) and Wa (Lawrence, KS) and have been impressed with both. I’m still a sushi newbie, but I can’t wait to try more. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:56 pm
You all should try to get to Sushi Ichiban in Omaha sometime. Maybe it’s just because it’s where I had my first sushi and they could have charged me and my friends rent there in high school, but I think that it is the most consistently delicious of the places in Nebraska (including the more expensive, newer joints in West O). They also have private rooms where you can sit on tatami and eat, if you get a big group. Plus, you can’t beat the ambiance that is suchi + a building that used to be an a-frame IHOP.