Okay, I'm only covering this because I ended up taking several pictures while there. So, rather than do normal-person Halloween activities, a couple of us ended up going to find a proper sushi restaurant for the first time since arriving. I know. How we let it go so long is beyond me.
Well, it was predictably awesome. Much like crab picking, sushi-go-round dinner seems designed to be an enjoyable, drawn-out meal fostering conversation, since you spend quite a lot of time watching the plates go round and looking for something that looks good. It's sort of fascinating just to sit there and watch all the food go by, really, since this is Japan and consequently the presentation is fantastic. It's also really striking: most sushi in the US is heavy on the rice, light on the fish, presumably because the fish is the expensive part. Here, however, you get big slices of fish that usually drape over the rice completely. Yeah. It's amazing.
We were right in front of the guy making all the sushi too, so we ended up sort of talking to him. Being gaijin and everything, we were taking pictures like crazy, and by the end, he was actively helping us get better shots of the preparation and things. He also caught on pretty fast that I went really crazy for the salt-water eel (anago) going round, and suddenly there was a lot more of it available. Most of the eel is the US is fresh-water (unagi), and is slightly smoked. The anago was not, I believe, completely raw either, but simmered very slightly in broth. And it was amazing. In every way.
Pretty good Halloween, I'd say.
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