its been a while since i've posted on non-dental matters. after today's lunch i felt it in the public interest to blog once again about food.
as one grows older and perhaps more financially carefree, ones ability to eat at fancy schmantzy restaurants also increases. i had previously discovered the joys of really good raw fish at Sushi Yoshida and Tatsuya, and also found a pretty decent quality and volume mix in Wasabi Tei. this also led me to stop eating at Sakae Sushi (pronounced suck-ka-ey btw), because there are some things you just don't do to nigirizushi... like put cheap-ass fish on it and send it for a long trip around the konbeya beruto until some poor sap picks it off, dips it in overly-hot wasabi stirred vigorously into his shoyu and eats it without an appreciation of true flavour, feeling so happy to eat weakly-flavoured fish with its taste deficiency covered by a strong sauce mixed in a way that actually causes its main ingredient to spoil.
this lunchtime we went to Sushi Tei at Ngee Ann City. we were hoping for at least decent food at reasonable prices. for mains i went with the Yakitori Bento and Peijun ordered a Sashimi Salad. we also threw on a double serving of Salmon Belly Aburi Sushi, and a Hotate thingy-with-cheese.
my Yakitori Bento arrived first. competent but unexciting, the chicken was tender and flavoured by a sauce and sliced onions. i was in fact counting on this to be a filler so that i could cheap out instead of having to stuff myself up on sushi. and unfortunately this was the most successful dish of the lot, in my eyes. Peijun rejected her salad because the lettuce bits were a most suspicious looking brown. and we witnessed a kitchen staffer take over the rejected plate, pick some pieces of fish and leaf off and chuck them, then glad-wrap the remaining salad and put it in a fridge. please tell me you like Sushi Tei now... the Aburi Sushi was cold and not terribly good (whats the point of turning a flamer on your sushi if you can't get the contrast of cold rice and warm fish right). the Scallop? an unbalanced overly-strong cheese on inconsisted shellfish (one piece was soft, one was hard).
i think i'll save my money and spend it at Tatsuya. rare but treasured meals are more worthwhile than cheap and unsatisfactory ones. fare thee well, Sushi Tei, your old standards have fallen.
as one grows older and perhaps more financially carefree, ones ability to eat at fancy schmantzy restaurants also increases. i had previously discovered the joys of really good raw fish at Sushi Yoshida and Tatsuya, and also found a pretty decent quality and volume mix in Wasabi Tei. this also led me to stop eating at Sakae Sushi (pronounced suck-ka-ey btw), because there are some things you just don't do to nigirizushi... like put cheap-ass fish on it and send it for a long trip around the konbeya beruto until some poor sap picks it off, dips it in overly-hot wasabi stirred vigorously into his shoyu and eats it without an appreciation of true flavour, feeling so happy to eat weakly-flavoured fish with its taste deficiency covered by a strong sauce mixed in a way that actually causes its main ingredient to spoil.
this lunchtime we went to Sushi Tei at Ngee Ann City. we were hoping for at least decent food at reasonable prices. for mains i went with the Yakitori Bento and Peijun ordered a Sashimi Salad. we also threw on a double serving of Salmon Belly Aburi Sushi, and a Hotate thingy-with-cheese.
my Yakitori Bento arrived first. competent but unexciting, the chicken was tender and flavoured by a sauce and sliced onions. i was in fact counting on this to be a filler so that i could cheap out instead of having to stuff myself up on sushi. and unfortunately this was the most successful dish of the lot, in my eyes. Peijun rejected her salad because the lettuce bits were a most suspicious looking brown. and we witnessed a kitchen staffer take over the rejected plate, pick some pieces of fish and leaf off and chuck them, then glad-wrap the remaining salad and put it in a fridge. please tell me you like Sushi Tei now... the Aburi Sushi was cold and not terribly good (whats the point of turning a flamer on your sushi if you can't get the contrast of cold rice and warm fish right). the Scallop? an unbalanced overly-strong cheese on inconsisted shellfish (one piece was soft, one was hard).
i think i'll save my money and spend it at Tatsuya. rare but treasured meals are more worthwhile than cheap and unsatisfactory ones. fare thee well, Sushi Tei, your old standards have fallen.
Seishun no Tobira - Ikimonogakari