sushi

[Foghat]

Tokyo is the best place in the world for food IMHO and it is great to be back for a while.

Unless you're vegetarian (I'm not, I hasten to add). This was true in 2001 at least, when countless restaurant staff didn't even understand the concept.

I thought you were some kind of vegan or other fussy eater?

 

[bonj2]

Abitrary - that fancy japanese beef you were on about comes from special Wellgo cows which are massaged and pampered all day long and kept in a special field. That's why it's so expensive. There's a shop in london or somewhere posh that sells sandwiches of it , £70 each. World's most expensive sandwich or something, was in the paper a while back.

 

[Abitrary]

Abitrary - that fancy japanese beef you were on about comes from special Wellgo cows which are massaged and pampered all day long and kept in a special field. That's why it's so expensive. There's a shop in london or somewhere posh that sells sandwiches of it , £70 each. World's most expensive sandwich or something, was in the paper a while back.

I don't want the whole sandwich or the packaging... I just want a couple of slices that I can scoff, and then brag to people about.

Why is this stuff not in the Jamie Oliver section in Sainsburys? If I want it, surely other people do as well.

Are you listening Lord Sainsbury?

 

[NickM]

Supermarket sushi is inoffensive, but that's about as much as can be said for it.

Whereas here in SE10 we have an excellent new Japanese restaurant about 3 minutes' walk from home. Their sushi and sashimi is the best I have had - better even than in San Francisco (I haven't visited Japan). They seem to be trying extra hard, so as to establish a clientele. It's working on us - we've been five times already

 

[Abitrary]

Supermarket sushi is inoffensive, but that's about as much as can be said for it.

Whereas here in SE10 we have an excellent new Japanese restaurant about 3 minutes' walk from home. Their sushi and sashimi is the best I have had - better even than in San Francisco (I haven't visited Japan). They seem to be trying extra hard, so as to establish a clientele. It's working on us - we've been five times already

How much did it cost to sate a single person's hunger in this wonderful new place?

 

[redshift]

Why is this stuff not in the Jamie Oliver section in Sainsburys? If I want it, surely other people do as well.

Are you listening Lord Sainsbury?

You might have identified your problem here - have you tried finding a proper butcher's shop, run by a proper butcher? I hear Mr Briss' sausages are a treat...

 

[Slowgrind]

Ah how I miss Hillory!

 

[NickM]

How much did it cost to sate a single person's hunger in this wonderful new place?

About £25 a head, and we drink tea rather than alcohol. We consider that reasonable for excellent quality in London. Japanese restaurants aren't really about blow-outs, though - we don't come out barely able to waddle home.