Sushi!!

Ok, first for a brief picture update.

I've added 4 pictures here related to my visit to the community center a little while back

The 2nd update related to this entry here, 10 pictures added to the Random Akita #2 album about my visit to a Sushi place.

So, yes it is quite overdue but I finally got some Sushi. Why did it take so long? Well, my only experience with Sushi were mostly California rolls from back home. I found them rather slimy and unimpressive. Today however, I finally went with a Japanese friend of mine, Takuma to get some Sushi. On the way we went through the mall and met up with Kris from Canada, and another Japanese girl named Marina, who I know from Aikido and who is Kris's Japanese conversation partner.

Well, let's just say I don't remember last time food made me this happy. I'm not sure if they have stuff like this back home so I will explain how the Sushi place worked. Pretty much we sat at a table with a conveyor belt to our right, seen here:

From Random Akita #2

You could pretty much take whatever you want from the belt. Also, if you felt like it you could use the menu to order something that you liked by typing it into a computer screen. Above the conveyor belt there was kind of a mini-rail. And a train would arrive carrying your orders. According to Takuma, food ordered directly was fresher and of course sometimes you had to wait until what you wanted arrived on the belt. In addition to sushi the menu contained a variety of things of desserts, chicken, omelet, takoyaki, (but of course the Sushi was the best). We also got some really good green tea with our meal. In one of the pictures early in my meal I tried some Hamburger Sushi, while it looked impressive initially it was really hard to pick up with chopsticks and not that tasty in my opinion by the end of the meal. I also tried some Sushi whose flavor I don't remember but apparenlty really impressed both of the Japanese students who told me that they've never seen anyone eat it on their first time. (mah? I thought it was good). Overall, however, the menu literally had hundreds of items and even the 2 Japanese people said that they have yet to try everything.

Overall, I think I want to just want to live near that restaurant so I can there all the time. Just a quick note on the price, all of the Sushi at this place had a fixed price of 105 yen (about $1.20) per plate. Side items such as soup, chicken, and dessert sometimes had higher slightly prices. I ended up eating about 8 plates of Sushi and side dishes for a total of about 1100 yen (A little over $11). Considering the quality and quantity of food I would say that's pretty cheap. I liked better then shabu shabu which had a fixed price of about $20, of course its apparently much cheaper during Lunch, so if I'm around the area at night I will definitely pick Sushi over Shabu Shabu.