Nice! Hong Kong is one of my favourite cities on the whole damned planet where food is concerned. I never had a bad, or even mediocre meal any of times I visited.
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Bought some sushi in the farmers' market today from a Japanese stall (which comes from a prize winning restaurant).
They were out of tuna (they are almost always out of tuna by the time I manage to make it into the market), but I managed to treat myself to both teriyaki chicken and salmon sushi.
They were out of tuna (they are almost always out of tuna by the time I manage to make it into the market), but I managed to treat myself to both teriyaki chicken and salmon sushi.
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Have enjoyed some sushi I bought from the Japanese sushi stall at the farmers' market: A salmon sushi, a tuna sushi, and a teriyaki chicken sushi with some pickled ginger (which I love), a dash of wasabi mustard and a few drops of soya sauce.
I'll take tempura and pork in my wontons thanks. After last year, not risking raw fish. Bacon, I haven't returned to yet. So I will leave this thread's debate to those who enjoy both or one.
Though I did buy this joke sushi today...
I adore cats and this struck me as hilarious, especially the box "Why am I sushi?" 😂 It's almost Kafka-like.
Though I did buy this joke sushi today...
I adore cats and this struck me as hilarious, especially the box "Why am I sushi?" 😂 It's almost Kafka-like.
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I've been known to succumb to both prawn wontons and to pork wontons....and, in the right sort of flavoured broth, or stock, they can be seriously lovely.
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I do not think I've ever had prawn wontons, I would love those as I am a prawn eating fiend.
Our local fusion place makes sushi too. I've tried it, but not for me.
My friend owns this restaurant in Taipei so I stopped by to pay him a visit. Really good sushi if you are ever in Taipei. The name of the restaurant is on the round sign behind him to the left.
Stunning pictures - my mouth is watering just drooling over them; I'd imagine that the sushi is delicious.
What is the restaurant actually named, or called?
This place used to be packed but today the sushi bar is empty and inside tables I only saw 3 occupied (4 if you add mine). Not one person sitting at sushi bar. Sushi bar used to be packed with Chinese people as they were the ones that were most likely willing to pay more for higher end sushi. Owner is now cutting food cost to minimize losses. Price increase in Premium bluefin tuna bowl but you no longer get all the premium bluefin Tina pieces. Cabbage is cheap and he even cut back on that too basically giving 1 teaspoon of that. Nextdoor used to be a high end Japanese restaurant (RIP to that one..)
That is a terrible pity; sushi is one of those dishes where the quality must be unimpeachable, where it really must be very good in order to be able to appreciate it - and savour it - fully.
It was good but not the amazing cream of crop like before. I think the owner is now looking at it from a point of view where he has 2 choices which is to cut back on what he offers to reduce cost until this Coronavirus pandemic passes by or shutdown like other businesses. I saw 2 in that same shopping center shutdown
He is absorbing some major losses right now. I know that his rent at the other location is around $20K per month and that is rent alone 🤪😨
It was good but not the amazing cream of crop like before. I think the owner is now looking at it from a point of view where he has 2 choices which is to cut back on what he offers to reduce cost until this Coronavirus pandemic passes by or shutdown like other businesses. I saw 2 in that same shopping center shutdown
Perhaps he could try to maintain standards re the actual product, but to reduce the choices on offer? Then, he might not need to cut gustatory, or culinary, corners to quite the same extent.
Some of the best Italian restaurants, the kind of almost grotty and vaguely grubby places you find on a backstreet, that I have ever eaten in, will offer either no choices, or perhaps - at most - one choice per course, when you order your meal.
A really small, or limited, menu, can allow you to focus on, or concentrate on, quality, without having to invoke stratospheric costs.
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I think the problem right now for restaurants is how to balance off fewer immediate customers with the necessity of having something on hand that's fresh and of quality enough to keep those returning customers coming back again. Profit margins were always tight for even very good places never mind average shops.
I love sushi.
And this thread has served to remind me that it has now been a growing number of months (for obvious reasons) since I have last tasted - let alone consumed, devoured, eaten, gobbled, wolfed - this sublime culinary offering from the Orient....
And this thread has served to remind me that it has now been a growing number of months (for obvious reasons) since I have last tasted - let alone consumed, devoured, eaten, gobbled, wolfed - this sublime culinary offering from the Orient....
Me too. There's a sushi place about 15 miles from here that I think is finally re-opening despite its usual clientele being mostly the still missing local college students. I plan to enlist the services of the guy who mows my lawn to run into town now and then to pick up an order for me, hopefully on a day he goes grocery shopping and so would be in town anyway. He likes making the odd extra dollar on errands or handyman type of chores, so this caper should work out for both of us and the sushi place owner too.
Now, you have just given me the (hopefully, germinating) seeds of an excellent idea.
My daughter and I got takeout sushi yesterday on our Comic Day outing. Our local Japanese grocery serves up a decent enough takeout nigiri combo for a good price, so we were happy! They are finally getting in some palatable fish, which was not the case a couple of weeks ago.
Evil.
Mouth-watering - I am salivating studying that image.
I would imagine that it was delicious, and I hope that you enjoyed it.
We did enjoy it! It's not the best sushi in town, but it was good!
I have not had any since moving to England, I need to locate a good place that is open.
That is the issue; most of the really good places are still shut, although some now seem to offer collect, or delivery.
Sushi is one of our primary take-outs right now. We got a decent order from the sushi counter at our local Fry's grocery store, but also went to both Ra and Sushi Garden, both of which do order to go now. It's not the same as dining in, but is a nice change of pace.
I am craving sushi again today. I am a huge fan of sushi and Japanese food. The amount of work and detail a chef puts into sushi preparation can be beyond mind boggling. Like literally each piece is prepared for each customer each time. Quite often goos chefs put their hearts into preparing to serve that piece also