Pabloz
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OK...so I'm talking knives with a local sort of celebrity chef and my wife comes home, grabs the car seat and out to P/U daughter and grand daughter for a shopping adventure. I can miss this..no problem. We talk knives for another 2hrs. Hunger sets in. What mischief can I get into since the "wife's away the boys will play?" SUSHI...yea that's the ticket...never done it before...what the hell...I'm 51...can handle it...you know raw smelly fish and all. Besides I have James to walk me through it and I'm sure Mr. Lee won't mind another C note on the day. So I grab some cash and off we go. Get to Mr. Lee's place and OH crap he is still closed 2:30-4:30pm. We get there at 3:00 pull on the door handle and it opens. NO MAN they are closed...no lights on, no one here, what if the alarm goes off??? Come on let's go...do it another time. OOOOOOHHHHH but then here comes Mrs. Lee......"come in, nice to see you, where is your wife, who is this...YADDA YADDAAA YYYYAAAADDDDAAAA. Damit man I can't turn back now!!! A couple of hello bows and a hug and off we go to my favorite table. Then I tell her we want to sit at the sushi bar and I am going to have sushi for the first time. I am so thankful there is no one else in the store...don't want to embarass myself by fumbling with those chop sticks. they just don't work for me!!! Just give me a friggin forknknife. So, here comes Mr. Lee with sh_t eating grin on his face..."here to have sushi?" Yes sir.
I guess y'all can sort of picture what comes next.
YUP...just like every other dummer to try it the first time with all those preconceived ideas of bite then barf...OH wait...hold it back till you run to the restroom and wasabi burning your face off not to mention food flying off the chopsticks and saki coming out your nose I was totally WRONG. First my saki arrives WARM. Who drinks an alcoholic beverage warm....OH YEA Remy Martin with Arturo Fuente...OK I'll try warm rice wine...pretty darn GOOD. Then Mr. Lee comes out from behind the glass and coaches me on how to hold chop sticks.....I get it...after he yells RELAX YOUR HAND!!! Then he shows me how to set up the condiments, pickled ginger, wasabi (looks like snot out of Ghost Busters), dark and light soy. Drink more saki. Here comes round one.....chop sticks ready, Check...wasabi soy mud ready, Check,......water ready (wash it down fast) Check, ...napkin ready (just in case water idea doesn't work) CHECK. 1st serving looks like crab stuffed jalapenos with little golden and black bb's on top. James says WOW. Ok he's impressed, it's gotta be good....JUST PICK IT UP, DUNK IT IN THE MUD AND BITE IT...done. :hungry: WHOA that was REALLY GOOD!!!! No joking...not at all like sex the first time. Then I had to ASK what it was made up of...(*^$%%*^%$$%$%^&%) and caviar on top....OH the little gold and black BB's...CCCOOOLLLLL. There is 3 of these for each of us. Tried to dissect and taste it all seperately.....didn't work so well, BUT, I did like the snap and flavor of the fish eggs. MORE SAKI. Do a little daikon radish, pickled ginger and water...OH NO saki as a pallette cleanser. Here comes round 2. Looked like a coconut log with shrimp tails sticking out each end. 5 pieces each, I have no idea what was in there but shrimp and avocado -- but it was GREAT. OK...saki, ginger, water...ready for round 3. OH by the way, each round came with a little hand carved scenery......carrot butterfly on a flower, hummingbird in a flower, swan on a pond, racoon on a bridge....I forget them all now....blame the saki. :tooth:
We had a total of seven rounds with an apple carved into a roadrunner with orange and cucumber cacti for dessert....WAY TOO COOL!!!!!
So at the end of about 2 hours I now know how to use chopsticks, mix wasabi soy mud, cleanse pallette, and enjoy the next round. It was also really cool to see someone in real life using those techniques in the videos by Japanese Knife Society. This was one really great adventure!!!
Thanks for reading all this babbling BS but I just had to get this one out. Now off to impress my Sushi Afficionado daughter....I even have custom chop sticks a customer from Indonesia sent us. Now I can use them too. :happymug:
I guess y'all can sort of picture what comes next.
YUP...just like every other dummer to try it the first time with all those preconceived ideas of bite then barf...OH wait...hold it back till you run to the restroom and wasabi burning your face off not to mention food flying off the chopsticks and saki coming out your nose I was totally WRONG. First my saki arrives WARM. Who drinks an alcoholic beverage warm....OH YEA Remy Martin with Arturo Fuente...OK I'll try warm rice wine...pretty darn GOOD. Then Mr. Lee comes out from behind the glass and coaches me on how to hold chop sticks.....I get it...after he yells RELAX YOUR HAND!!! Then he shows me how to set up the condiments, pickled ginger, wasabi (looks like snot out of Ghost Busters), dark and light soy. Drink more saki. Here comes round one.....chop sticks ready, Check...wasabi soy mud ready, Check,......water ready (wash it down fast) Check, ...napkin ready (just in case water idea doesn't work) CHECK. 1st serving looks like crab stuffed jalapenos with little golden and black bb's on top. James says WOW. Ok he's impressed, it's gotta be good....JUST PICK IT UP, DUNK IT IN THE MUD AND BITE IT...done. :hungry: WHOA that was REALLY GOOD!!!! No joking...not at all like sex the first time. Then I had to ASK what it was made up of...(*^$%%*^%$$%$%^&%) and caviar on top....OH the little gold and black BB's...CCCOOOLLLLL. There is 3 of these for each of us. Tried to dissect and taste it all seperately.....didn't work so well, BUT, I did like the snap and flavor of the fish eggs. MORE SAKI. Do a little daikon radish, pickled ginger and water...OH NO saki as a pallette cleanser. Here comes round 2. Looked like a coconut log with shrimp tails sticking out each end. 5 pieces each, I have no idea what was in there but shrimp and avocado -- but it was GREAT. OK...saki, ginger, water...ready for round 3. OH by the way, each round came with a little hand carved scenery......carrot butterfly on a flower, hummingbird in a flower, swan on a pond, racoon on a bridge....I forget them all now....blame the saki. :tooth:
We had a total of seven rounds with an apple carved into a roadrunner with orange and cucumber cacti for dessert....WAY TOO COOL!!!!!
So at the end of about 2 hours I now know how to use chopsticks, mix wasabi soy mud, cleanse pallette, and enjoy the next round. It was also really cool to see someone in real life using those techniques in the videos by Japanese Knife Society. This was one really great adventure!!!
Thanks for reading all this babbling BS but I just had to get this one out. Now off to impress my Sushi Afficionado daughter....I even have custom chop sticks a customer from Indonesia sent us. Now I can use them too. :happymug: