Salmon, fluke and toro sashimi
Jizake Tenzan Junmai Genshu sake
Fluke sushi, with green tea salt
Chopped toro, with oshinko (Japanese pickles) mixed in
Fresh uni (sea urchin) with black tobiko (flying fish roe) and toro in a cucumber cup
Squid, with wasabi and tobiko, basted with eel sauce
Not shown (because my digicam batteries died on me):
Fresh scallop sushi with Japanese mustard
Fluke sushi, with lemon egg sauce
Maguro (tuna) sushi
Deep-fried shrimp heads
Needlefish sushi with ikura (salmon roe)
Bonito sushi with mayonnaise and grated ginger
Yellowtail sushi with ume shiso
Ume shiso makisushi (Japanese ume plum paste with shiso leaves)
Green tea
Dinner at Tsuki tonight.
When I have a hankering for sushi, I go to one of four places in New York: Tsuki, Sushi Yasuda, Kurumazushi, or Jewel Bako. Sushi has become like hamburgers and hot dogs: fairly predictable and a dime a dozen. As far as I’m concerned, if you’re going to indulge, get the best that you can possibly afford. Otherwise, it’s pointless.
Out of 10? Tonight was a moderate 7 to a moderate-high 7. I originally reserved for tomorrow evening but had to reschedule to tonight. Bad mistake. It turns out that Kazutoshi Maeda, the chef and owner of Tsuki, is off on Tuesday evenings. His assistant trained at Tomoe and although he’s certainly capable, he doesn’t nearly have as much breadth or depth of experience as Maeda-san.
Tsuki is located at 1410 First Avenue (at 75th Street), in the Upper East Side.
I just wanted you to know that I grabbed the uni pic to make an icon for a friends poem…
called
“maybe it’s mango..”
Maybe it’s mango?
I think looking down at the
sickly orange yellow slime wrapped in seaweed
This is Uni? an “acquired” taste
The acquired taste they say.
Looks like mango
maybe the chef made a mistake?
I can’t read Japanese
not even American Japanese
I was glad it was just one syllable.
The girls are staring still
waiting for me to get to that piece,
gripping the rice base gently,
maybe it’ll fall to the floor
you can’t eat things off the floor
Damn, I have to open my mouth now
–please be mango.
:giggle:
~h
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