Sushi...Again

On December 10 (I think), my favorite wife and I went to a David Sedaris play. Afterward, we had sushi at a great little sushi place in Addison. Tonight, we went to the same place. But tonight, we pulled out all the stops. Tonight, we paid for the dinner on our corporate AMEX, knowing full well that we'll end the year with a huge deficit. Life's too short to worry about the little things!

Anyway, we had talked about going to a Greek restaurant, but tonight's sky looked more like sushi. So, we decided to revisit our sushi spot of recent adoration and this time we wanted to make it a corporate event, complete with board meeting, so we can write it off. And that we did.

We had two small bottles of sake, one made in the U.S. and the other in Japan. Both were good, but I much preferred the Japanes sake. Naturally, I have no idea what brands we were drinking.

But the food! We had a volcano roll, with a combination of scallops and crawfish in a very spicy sauce topping several nice crawfish rolls. Wonderful! And we had spicy salmon and spicy tuna rolls. And we had slices of raw salmon that was beyong belief! And an assortment of other wonderful stuff. Heaven! I do love sushi and sashimi. Fresh raw tuna is a gift from whoever is the latest god in control of the universe. This place has spectacular wasabi, too...it will clear your sinuses and cause your brain to bleed if you're not careful. Even the soy sauce is special. I guess you would be right if you guessed I like this place. I'd love to make it a regular stop on Friday evenings. My entire wife pointed out to me that most people tonight dropped in for one or two items, then left...unlike the two of us, who pretended we needed to eat enough to last us until December 2013. I think her point was that we can afford to do this more frequently...but only in moderation.

It's interesting that, just this afternoon, I was listening to an NPR program that suggested our diets and tastes in food have changed dramatically over the last 40 years because of the repeal of some law, which I didn't catch, that allowed a massive influx of migrants to the U.S. If that's the case, then I applaud the law. I probably won't applaud it forever, but in the spirit of welcoming the world and all the world can offer to lift us up and out of the darkness of Bushiness, I'll all for it.

Damn, every time I think of the fascist I get depressed...I need a quart of sake...