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Sushi!
I had never had it until I was about...17?! Once I had, I was hooked!
I've never been to Japan (it's on the wish list!), so the best sushi I've ever had has been in Melbourne, where it is cheap, fresh and plentiful, and in Canada. On my trip there in 2007, friends in Vancouver took me to The Eatery, which was by far the coolest, funkiest sushi place I've ever been to! You can browse the menu online - tell me you don't want to go there! We ordered a whole selection of their "funky creations" and it came out for the three of us on one giant platter, as below:
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Look how happy I am!! It was so delicious!
Even though we ate sushi like there was no tomorrow, I recall we had room for a deep fried Mars Bar! A rich, coconut flecked batter surrounded the melted caramel and chocolate inside, the richness cut by cool, sweet vanilla icecream. We also had Sake Bombs - a shot of sake dropped into a pint of beer! As if the fabulous food wasn't enough reason to go there, the decor of The Eatery was also awe-inspiring, full of Astro Boy figurines, Warhol-esque pop art and papier mache octopi dangling from the ceiling! There was also a speed dating session going on in one part of the restaurant the night we were there, which proved to be interesting viewing while waiting for the food, I remember!!
And then there was Kanda - the best sushi in Montreal. You pay $20CAD and it's all you can eat - the menu at the table is an order form, which you fill in and then hand to your waiter, and then it's made fresh and brought out. A warning, you are charged extra if you don't eat your entire order, to discourage waste! A very sensible policy, I thought! We didn't leave a thing....but I was stuffed to the brim and beyond.
There must be a thousand places you get can sushi in Melbourne, but Plush Fish is my favourite, on the University campus. Fresh, filling and utterly addictive! I liked the seaweed salad and inari from there too.
And here in London, Yo Sushi has been my pick! This is the aftermath of a typical visit there for us:
Ha ha!
When I came home from my Arvon course, Tom had ordered Yo Sushi takeaway, and also had champagne on ice! What a spoiled girl I am. This is our favourite takeaway from there:
The veggie box!
Feng Sushi in Notting Hill is also excellent - some girl friends and I went there after seeing the first Sex and the City movie two years ago. A sushi situation?! It seemed appropriate!
I also love the sushi you can get at the Japan Centre. I also usually stock up on the soy sauces, noodles, kewpie mayonnaise and other delights you can get there!!
As for making my own sushi - I tried, many years ago, but always overfilled the rolls and they fell apart! I relied on the generosity of friends who were much more gifted in the homemade sushi department than I. I think my sister Claire is now the proud owner of my make-you-own sushi kit!!
What about you? Are you a sushi fan?
Sushi doesn't do it for me at all (gross, gross, gross) but deep friend Mars bars I can get on board with! I had one in Stonehaven, Scotland which is apparently where some genius first came up with the idea. I remember joking that I my arteries would instantly harden the moment I took a bite, but even if they had've, it would have been completely worth it!
ReplyDeleteI really wish sushi did it for me - sadly, it doesn't! Great pics tho! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'm a HUGE sushi fan...first time I had it was in New York when I was 27!! and I think I've made up for the late start ever since. Yum.
ReplyDeleteAnd my younger daughter who is the world's fussiest 4 year old loves it too - so I make a point of buying it for her at least once a week :-)
Ha, I've been to Japan 3 times and never eaten sushi there. Not because I don't want to - I think I have an eating sushi in Japan curse or something. Like one time we planned to go to sushi but there were Haz Mat trucks outside!
ReplyDeleteStill I've gotten really fussy about the sushi I eat. I won't go to take away places with those huge nori rolls that just tough and awful.
I'm in love with unagi (smoked eel) sushi. I thought I'd hate it but it's so awesome and melt in your mouth. Plus eel gives you stamina in hot weather so perfect excuse to eat lots in the summer :)
Oh and also love chirashi which is a bowl of sushi rice with various toppings - fish, egg etc. Yum. I want to have that for lunch now.
Eeeewgh, no... Doesn't do it for me at all. I hate... well all of it. It's taken five years in Thailand for Husband to get me into Japanese restaurants but NOT for sushi.
ReplyDeleteI do feel a bit of personal failure at this, but I'll just have to live with that I guess.
Oh yes, sushi is fantastic! I didn't try it until I was 22 just before moving to Japan for a year and then through that year fell in love with it. It was always so good there though that I became a bit of sushi snob and didn't like the prepackaged stuff in the shops in the UK, although Yo Sushi and that other one (forget its name) were always good.
ReplyDeleteThankfully Dar has a brilliant sushi restuarant called Osaka, so I can continue to indulge even in East Africa. Yum!
MMmmmm sushi, an all-time fave. I think the best sushi I ever had was in Quito, Ecuador. Random, yes, but oh so yum!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love sushi, and I also like to make it myself. With the thin rolls, I always had the overfilling problem at first, but by now I figured it out. Have you ever tried to make thick rolls from a whole nori sheet? That need *a lot* of filling! :D
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