Love Sushi

Golden Week (a series of 4 national holidays with a couple of regular days thrown in between April 29 & May 5) is underway.  My work is on holiday, but the family restaurant is in it's second busiest season of the year.  There isn't much time for anything, so before the holiday started, we took some time to do things we enjoyed.

For son K and I, we hit the batting cages, bookstores (on-line and in-town) and enjoyed a favorite meal.  In a couple of years (months!) it might become more expensive, but kaiten-sushi is one of our top faves for a cheap, delicious, quick meal!  Just up the street is a kaiten-sushi for 100 yen plus tax per plate (with soup and K's desert, we always come in @ about 2000 yen=a little more expensive than the burger joint, but feels much healthier!)

We enjoyed our perpetual favorites of maguro (tuna), hamachi (yellowtail), anago (conger eel), negi-toro (tuna with green onions), tamago (egg) and ebi-abokado(shrimp with avocado).  Well, K doesn't like the anago or ebi so much, and I pass on the tamago, but these plates ALWAYS cross our table.  I have a strong tendency to order the same thing, so decided to try something new.  It was a seasoned pork topping (buta sankaku) that was surprisingly good and tender.  Yum! 

Lots of national holidays, and delicious inexpensive sushi:  two more of my favorite things in Japan!

Here's the partial line-up:

Maguro (tuna) is a little more expensive, so one piece of sushi per plate.  The yellow plates have wasabi on the sushi, and white ones don't.  Of course, there are little packets of wasabi so you can add it if necessary.

The upper plate is anago (conger eel).  Another type of popular eel is unagi, which is usually dipped in a slightly sweet/soy sauce.  I like the lighter flavor of anago for nigiri-sushi.  The lower pictures are sake (salmon) with grated daikon radish and negi (green onions/leeks) and boiled ebi (shrimp) topped with slices of avocado, thinly sliced onions and mayo.

We tried this pork sushi for the first time today-it just melts in your mouth!  I was a little leery, but will definitely have this again.

K's stack with hamachi (yellowtail) on top....hungry boy!

While I enjoyed a final cup of green tea, he finished off his meal with kaki-gori (shaved ice).

Finally, ponderings from the parking lot after having stuffed myself.  I find the prevalence of English in Japan convenient and amusing at times.  But sometimes wonder why a sign restricting entrance would be posted in another language rather than Japanese.

Now, I'm off to prepare for another day at our restaurant=I'll tell you more about that later!