All you can stomach sushi...

Meg W. wrote:
>Harold suggested:
>>You might want to try a place off of University across from Miyake's.  I
>>haven't personally been there, but others I work with say it's pretty good
>>for all you can eat.
>
>Ooooh, nooooo, doooon't dooooo it!  Miyasato or Miyajima or
>Minamoto or whatever it's called is really ..<pause for
>breath>.. vile.  Horribly, repulsively vile.  There is no
>worse sushi on the pen, I guarawntee it.

Actually, having been to this place and Sono Sushi, I'd rather go to this place.  I think you can sum up Sono by its name, as in So, no sushi tonight, huh?

Val

Re Minokichi (the name finally came to me), I had written:
>> Ooooh, nooooo, doooon't dooooo it!  Miyasato or Miyajima or
>> Minamoto or whatever it's called is really ..<pause for
>> breath>.. vile.  Horribly, repulsively vile.  There is no
>> worse sushi on the pen, I guarawntee it.

Cyndi writes:
>What didn't you like about it?
>And what time did you go?  I've found their sushi is best just after they
>open (they close for a couple hours between lunch and dinner so either
>opening is okay).  They do refresh the sushi throughout the night as it's
>eaten, but the quality declines as the hours wear on.

I've been dragged there twice for lunch; never been for dinner.

My primary complaint was the rice.  It was barely-seasoned long-grain, possibly held together with a touch of gelatin. Also, the second time I could tell that the rice was old, as in, about to turn.  Yes, I'm afraid I have kept rice in my rice-cooker long enough to know what rice-on-the- brink tastes like.

But the non-rice bits (and we're talking *bits*) of their sushi weren't much better.  The fish in the maki was clearly trim; the nigiri items were of poor quality; the tamago wasn't even proper Japanese tamago.

Basically, it struck me as sushi prepared by someone who has never had sushi before, only seen pictures.  Now, I don't think that's the case, but it's clearly made by folks who don't have their tastebuds oriented along washoku (Japanese) lines.

>Are you picky about your sushi (meaning you dislike anything but the best)?
>Or perhaps you hit them on a bad day?

I suppose I could have hit them on a couple of bad days, but no one I know (except for the person who drug me there) likes them either.  And while I'm not shy in my criticism (am I, gang?), I'm not really a sushi-snob; I eat happily at Tomi, Yakko, Fukizushi, Jidaiya, et al.  And while I don't *like* it much, I'd rather eat at Sono than there.

And to answer Harold's question, Miyake's sushi is much better, even if Minokichi's atmosphere is more to my liking.

Rage away,

meg