I already got the replacement card from the bank today. It’s nice to know that since M ‘lost’ the card, our only worry was to memorize a new PIN number thanks to the honest stranger.
Now that we have our card back, M treated me for lunch. He knows he didn’t have to but I’m glad he did! He took me to a Japanese restaurant near my office and for starters, ordered this:
Thankfully, there was nothing raw inside the California maki. Even after spending more than 10 years in Japan, I shamefully admit that I could not take the taste of anything raw, especially fish.
I was a little bit taken aback by the orange thing on the maki, though. It’s fish eggs and M knows I don’t eat salmon roe – you know, those big fish eggs that explodes one by one in your mouth? They are eaten raw in Japan too and look like this:
~ do you have the guts to eat this!? I don’t! ~
The fish eggs in the California maki we ordered were not bad and though they did explode one by one inside my mouth, I was not disturbed by it. :grin:
I love maki-zushi. Today’s lunch brought back so many memories when I was in Japan. It’s amazing how a certain song, smell and even food can take you back in time.
In case you are wondering, Maki-zushi is made with sushi rice (Japanese sticky rice with vinegar and sugar), rolled around various foods, like my favorite seasoned kampyo (gourd strips), denbu (sweet powder), sweet omelet, cucumber, crab sticks, wrapped in nori – a thin sheet made from dried seaweed.
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You like sushi the same way I do – with no fish! I love all the trappings, but without the raw fish please. California rolls are the ones for me
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I love sashimi – the more raw the better
And I love the salmon roe…so I will gladly eat it for you!
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When there’s a sushi/sashimi in a party (when I was in Japan), my colleagues gladly take my share. I can only eat the rolled egg and the ones with cucumber or gourd.
Speaking of Japanese food, you should try Kisaku in Al Khaleej Palace Hotel in Rigga Road, Deira. The atmosphere was so nice and the food too — made me feel I was in Japan for a few hours!! Highly recommended.
Yep, same here: love sushi, but no raw fish for me, please.
And fish eggs: gross. I had to try some once, a gift from a russian co-worker. It was just disgusting. *yuck*
Some of the japanese girls I met in New Zealand taught me how to make sushi. We filled it with veggies and roasted chicken strips. Hm, tasty.
I really should make that again some time.
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Hi Grace! It’s been a while since I checked your blog. Love the look!! and I love sushi, as well as sashimi,and yes, even the ikura (fish eggs)! Here in Tokyo, i try to go to kaiten sushi (even by myself) at least once a week. Yuuum!
i hate sushi, but because of the vinegared rice, not raw fish. though i hate ikura, too. my poor husband.
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what? you don’t eat raw fish? I’m surprised… really. Aside from staying in Japan for 10 years we (in Southern Philippines) have our kinilaw! I’ve always loved them. And I already tried those fish eggs. yummy! If only they’re not that expensive…
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Shie, you are welcome to be surprised anytime!
. Our kinilaw is really not that raw because of the spices and the vinegar so it’s not counted.
I don’t mind eating the raw seafood,I LOVE sushi, but those fish eggs completely gross me out! How could something so fishy be so expensive
As long as it’s not a big slab of raw-ness I can eat it!