SUSHI AHOY
July 17th 2008 08:25
The interior is clean-cut, yet has a reassuring aesthetic. Conversations happen in whispers and quite voices, people admiring their food or glancing at other peoples’ tables. It is both the food and the mutual feeling that people are admiring. Fragile pieces of sushi, slim seaweed ring with insightfully prepared cucumbers, pickles, tofu or fish among other things. Seasoned with soy sauce and wasabi, the veterans know how much to splay on the pieces. Perhaps the sushi is large, heaping, loaded with fish eggs, but as carefully constructed as a tower. The delicate flavours sink into your taste buds just after the vague aromas waft to you. Salt and sweetness combine with the savoury, mushy rice; is cleared out by the sting of wasabi. Perhaps you prefer the meaty taste of sashimi, as clear and light as the fish itself.
But it’s not just the food. You can swing in to a Japanese place from your chaotic day, sitting down to ordered comfort. Clean tables, efficient service. The food is precise and painstakingly created. Tea pouring, the cups as quaint as Russian dolls. There is time for more cerebral conversation, the kind you may not be able to have in sweaty, packed restaurants. The glance at other tables is perhaps to confirm that you and your company were indeed lucky enough to have made it to a nice place. Like nobility, you inspect the pieces to choose which vittles are to your liking. Taking your time preparing each piece before you bite half of it, or perhaps you eat it whole and take your time chewing. These restaurants truly do meet the criteria of ‘going out for dinner’.
But it’s not just the food. You can swing in to a Japanese place from your chaotic day, sitting down to ordered comfort. Clean tables, efficient service. The food is precise and painstakingly created. Tea pouring, the cups as quaint as Russian dolls. There is time for more cerebral conversation, the kind you may not be able to have in sweaty, packed restaurants. The glance at other tables is perhaps to confirm that you and your company were indeed lucky enough to have made it to a nice place. Like nobility, you inspect the pieces to choose which vittles are to your liking. Taking your time preparing each piece before you bite half of it, or perhaps you eat it whole and take your time chewing. These restaurants truly do meet the criteria of ‘going out for dinner’.
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