So the new rage in japanese restaurants is for them to yell in japanese , "welcome". Most of the people yelling it arent japanese. So many sushi restaurants are non japanese, alot are even non asian.
Ya know you can get very sick from improper care of raw fish. A real sushi chef trains for 7 years and knows everything about the fish, cleaning, care, cutting, even the eating of it.
Tonite I ate a ton of mediocre sushi in the best sushi restaurant in Park Slope. It is truly amazing how a "hip" neighborhood has such mediocre food. The bill was $200 for 2 of us, well i'm full , so that's a plus. I asked the chef if he had "buri" that's a fish in season now, he didnt have any idea what i was talking about, I think he gave me a napkin.
So this post is far from humerous, but my advice is to only eat in japanese run sushi places. Otherwise order the cooked food. The Japanese make a dish called toriwasa, they take a live chicken , kill it fresh for you , then soak the chicken in soy and wasabi , maybe some ginger, a little sake. Yeah it's raw chicken, it's awesome. My favorite thing is fish guts, aka watta. very strong taste, very old fashioned , very good with sake. ok now it's time for ice cream. Ja matta
