Who here eats sushi or sashimi? OT

[killercroc]

I just started eating the real thing(i.e.- not California rolls) a couple of months ago, and am hooked! My favorite is fatty tuna sushi. but salmon, and yellow fin are really good, also. I'm just now getting used to eating the squid, though. It's kinda weird.

I can get a sampler plate for 6.95 at lunch, and that's a pretty darn good deal. I don't know if it's mental or not, but I feel really good for several days after eating it. I think it has to do with my hair turning blond and standing straight up.

So do you guys eat it? And what's your favorite kind? and how much do you pay?

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by killercroc
I just started eating the real thing(i.e.- not California rolls) a couple of months ago, and am hooked! My favorite is fatty tuna sushi. but salmon, and yellow fin are really good, also.
So do you guys eat it? And what's your favorite kind? and how much do you pay?

I live in a little town in NM, and, amazingly, we have a really good Japanese restaurant, with really good sushi. The guy who runs it has even taken advantage of the local cuisine and works our local green chile crops into some of his combinations. (The "dynamite" roll, for instance.)

I like almost any sushi: the tuna and yellow fin and salmon are standouts, though. Each roll at Tatsu costs between $5 and $9.

[don Jaime]

I don't, but I wouldn't mind trying. Where is this joint?

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by don Jaime
I don't, but I wouldn't mind trying. Where is this joint?

The only 3 people here who know OKC, sharing about where to find sushi. How weird is that? :D

[don Jaime]

PlopKat's from eastern Oklahoma. Maybe he wants in on the raw fish, too?

[killercroc]

Originally posted by don Jaime
I don't, but I wouldn't mind trying. Where is this joint?

It's up on Western, north of most of those Nichols Hills places. It's called the Tokyo house. You know up there where Western makes a big curve? If you kept going straight where it curved you'd run into it. I have a friend that's been to all the other places in the city and he says it's just as good or better than them, with lower prices. :) Get the sampler off the menu, not the one that's on special. The menu has a better deal for some reason!


originally posted by Maxie Zeus The only 3 people here who know OKC, sharing about where to find sushi. How weird is that?

That is pretty funny! How do you know OKC? Did you live here one time? What a small world!

Do you live in NM's mountains? I make it out there about every other year or more, whether as a destination or part of my route. I really enjoy the Red River area, but have been to Santa Fe and even Roswell. (hums X-files theme)

[killercroc]

Originally posted by don Jaime
PlopKat's from eastern Oklahoma. Maybe he wants in on the raw fish, too?

hmm. Haven't noticed that. There is also someone from around Fayetteville who comes to the board. Those two are practically neighbors if PlopKat lives in NE OK.

[DR. BELCH]

A Japanese girlfriend asked me once if I'd ever tried sushi. I told her I'm a Southern boy; the only way I ever touch fish is if it's rolled in cornmeal and fried in oil. ;)
Though I'm smitten with Chinese food. Women have marvelled at my prodigious appetite at a buffet.

[killercroc]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
A Japanese girlfriend asked me once if I'd ever tried sushi. I told her I'm a Southern boy; the only way I ever touch fish is if it's rolled in cornmeal and fried in oil. ;)
Though I'm smitten with Chinese food. Women have marvelled at my prodigious appetite at a buffet.

Hey, I have a friend from Missouri that fries the egg sac from goggleeye and raves about how good they are. It was OK, but I don't know about the raving.

Say, a friend and I were having a discussion about MO., and he said you guys have more rednecks than Oklahoma. I'd say we're about 70 percent redneck. That includes the subcategories, hillbillies(I belong to this group), rubes, and goobs.

What about MO.?

[The Mad Hatter]

Quoth Croc:

There is also someone from around Fayetteville who comes to the board.

I think you may be talking about me, though I've moved down to Conway, just north of Little Rock, three months ago. Throw in Belch and Nftnat (who also lives somewhere in Arkie-land) and you've got a ton of people from the center of the country.

In Fayetteville I would go to a place called Asahi. They serve up one mean deceased fish, though the owner is a jerk and a half. There aren't any sushi places in Conway and I can't get any of my friends to venture into Little Rock with me for sushi, so I'm stuck for now.

Sigh... I really miss Fayetteville.

[DR. BELCH]

On the whole, Missouri and Arkansas (where I live, right near that ol' Bootheel, just about close enough to the levee to spit into the river) aren't that different. The accents are pretty similar, and we both love our firecrackers (or as we say it "fa'arcrackahs"), swigging cheap hootch, and keep at least three hound dogs (beagles and black Labs are staples) running about the yard. Plus you'll still find a lot of folks who don't cotton to integration in schools, interracial marriage, or guys getting earrings, but that's a whole other story.
There were two brothers from Texas that used to hang about the TV lounge in college. Two notable differences between AR/MO and TX: it's about 10-20 degrees hotter over there, and they don't say "police", they say, "po-leece", like something out of a Lewis Grizzard routine. And the "po-leece" ride "motorsickles". ;)
So we probably have more rednecks than Oklahoma, but the deep-South states like Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana put us to shame.

[don Jaime]

Man, way up there in Edmond almost? No wonder it's good. You have to be to survive up there. I'll try that sometime.

Since Belchie brought up Chinese buffets, I'll plug the good one here in town: Golden Palace. It's south of Shepler's on Meridian. Good Chinese (paper-wrapped chicken, mmm!) plus veggie sushi, Vietnamese pho, and Mongolian BBQ, for about $8 a head. Worth a visit, but wear Sansabelts.

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by killercroc
How do you know OKC? Did you live here one time? What a small world!

Do you live in NM's mountains? I make it out there about every other year or more, whether as a destination or part of my route. I really enjoy the Red River area, but have been to Santa Fe and even Roswell. (hums X-files theme)

My mother's an assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. We're not from there (she moved to take the job), but I do like Norman pretty well.

I'm from Las Cruces, down in the south-central part of the state, about 40 miles north of El Paso. The Gila wilderness isn't far to the west, and Ruidoso/Cloudcroft aren't far to the east, but for mountains I have to make do with the Organs (which really are eyecandy).

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
A Japanese girlfriend asked me once if I'd ever tried sushi. I told her I'm a Southern boy; the only way I ever touch fish is if it's rolled in cornmeal and fried in oil. ;)

Mmm. Southern fried sushi. Them's good eatin'! :p

[NewMaxFranklin]

I'm half Japanese. But, apparantley my stomach is FULL Japanese. I love sushi, sashimi, ramen, udon, shabu shabu, etc. I don't care for the instant stuff, but I love a good bowl of noodles, in a japanese restaurant.

You can get a lot of good "Asian" food in Hawaii. It's probably one of the best places in the world to chow down. (Korean BBQ is awesome!!!)

It's easy to find good Jap grub here in Hollywood as well. There are a couple great sushi places and a teriaki house within spitting diatance of my pad. Lucky me.

I'm a big fan of "spicy tuna rolls," though they're hardly traditional. "California rolls"(immitaion crab, cucumber and avacado wrapped in rice and dried seaweed or "nori.") are ok. But, I prefer "Canadian rolls"(smoked salmon, insted of avacado, w/ sesame seeds.

My favorites are "Unagi"(BBQ'd fresh water eel) and fatty tuna (like it sounds.) Oh, I'm getting HUNGRY!!!

There's a special kind of "inari-zushi" (rice in deep-fried tofu pouches) you can get on the Big Island of Hawaii. They're like the ones you find in bento's, but they're about four times bigger and I don't know what they do to them, but they're delicious. I'd take a box of them over a steak and lobster tail any day!

[killercroc]

Originally posted by The Mad Hatter


I think you may be talking about me, though I've moved down to Conway, just north of Little Rock, three months ago. Throw in Belch and Nftnat (who also lives somewhere in Arkie-land) and you've got a ton of people from the center of the country.

In Fayetteville I would go to a place called Asahi. They serve up one mean deceased fish, though the owner is a jerk and a half. There aren't any sushi places in Conway and I can't get any of my friends to venture into Little Rock with me for sushi, so I'm stuck for now.

Sigh... I really miss Fayetteville.

I have some friends and family that live in Conway. It's not a bad place, but, yeah, it's no Fayetteville. When I go visit my sister in Arvada, I'll have to request Asahi.



Man, way up there in Edmond almost? No wonder it's good. You have to be to survive up there. I'll try that sometime.

Since Belchie brought up Chinese buffets, I'll plug the good one here in town: Golden Palace. It's south of Shepler's on Meridian. Good Chinese (paper-wrapped chicken, mmm!) plus veggie sushi, Vietnamese pho, and Mongolian BBQ, for about $8 a head. Worth a visit, but wear Sansabelts.

Yeah, most of the restaurants up there are pretty good. With a few notable exceptions. For instance, I was very unimpressed with Hideaway Pizza.

I've been to the Golden Palace. I used to go there when they were in Midwest City, and when they put that one in on Meridian I was ecstatic. Thats about 3 miles from my house. What I love is what I think is the Mongolian BBQ. Is that where you choose the ingredients and they stir fry it for you? The only problem is I get full on that and can't eat all the other stuff.

Sansabelts? That's pretty funny. I've been watching my wife were those maternity clothes and think that might be perfect "buffet wear." Plenty of belly room!



My mother's an assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. We're not from there (she moved to take the job), but I do like Norman pretty well.

So, do you live in Norman now?




[b]On the whole, Missouri and Arkansas (where I live, right near that ol' Bootheel, just about close enough to the levee to spit into the river) aren't that different. The accents are pretty similar, and we both love our firecrackers (or as we say it "fa'arcrackahs"), swigging cheap hootch, and keep at least three hound dogs (beagles and black Labs are staples) running about the yard. Plus you'll still find a lot of folks who don't cotton to integration in schools, interracial marriage, or guys getting earrings, but that's a whole other story.
b]

So do you live near Fayetteville? (I'm sorry without a map, I can't figure out where the bootheel is!) That's the only part of Mo. I've been to. And I know that's a mistake. I've just not had a chance to rectify it. I keep meaning to get up there to the Bass Pro shop and to float your Ozark streams.

Yeah, you guys get all the good "fa'arcrackahs." We can't get any of the bottle rocket type things. But we can get the ground launch rockets.

Anyway, thanks for confirming our suspicions.

[don Jaime]

The one in MWC is still going, IIRC, but we always go to the Meridian one. That's the Mongolian BBQ, all right. That was Dad's favorite restaurant. Want some more?

For sit down Chinese, Hunan in Norman is great. It's off Main on Hal Muldrow, near the Hastings.

You're also fairly near Las Palomas, too. It's at 23rd and Portland, I think. (I know where it is, I just never think about the street names.) Best Mexican ever. Get the sopes.

The best Vietnamese in town is in a strip mall across Classen and a little north from Chinatown Supermarket. If you go in and it's blue and there's a mosaic of a coffeepot and swords, you're there. You want #25 and an avocado milkshake. Trust me.

Just north of that is the Canterbury cafe and British food store, tucked in the back of a rug store. That's on 34th and Classen. They got a write-up in the latest Gazette.

These I can't even give addresses for, I just know the route and can't describe it. Ingrid's delicatessen is hidden in a neighborhood off Penn and something. Old Germany is out in Choctaw, but I haven't been there in a while.

[killercroc]

Originally posted by don Jaime
The one in MWC is still going, IIRC, but we always go to the Meridian one. That's the Mongolian BBQ, all right. That was Dad's favorite restaurant. Want some more?

For sit down Chinese, Hunan in Norman is great. It's off Main on Hal Muldrow, near the Hastings.

You're also fairly near Las Palomas, too. It's at 23rd and Portland, I think. (I know where it is, I just never think about the street names.) Best Mexican ever. Get the sopes.

The best Vietnamese in town is in a strip mall across Classen and a little north from Chinatown Supermarket. If you go in and it's blue and there's a mosaic of a coffeepot and swords, you're there. You want #25 and an avocado milkshake. Trust me.

Just north of that is the Canterbury cafe and British food store, tucked in the back of a rug store. That's on 34th and Classen. They got a write-up in the latest Gazette.

These I can't even give addresses for, I just know the route and can't describe it. Ingrid's delicatessen is hidden in a neighborhood off Penn and something. Old Germany is out in Choctaw, but I haven't been there in a while.
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[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by NMaxFranklin
"California rolls"(immitaion crab, cucumber and avacado wrapped in rice and dried seaweed or "nori.") are ok. But, I prefer "Canadian rolls"(smoked salmon, insted of avacado, w/ sesame seeds.

Canada beat California at everything, of course! :D


Oh, I'm getting HUNGRY!!!

Yeah, I went and got sushi yesterday after reading and contributing to this thread, and I think I'm gonna to get some today, too!

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by killercroc
So, do you live in Norman now?

Oh, no. I just visit on holidays.

[Inque]

any sushi is great with me as long as you give me a lot of soy sauce and WASABI!

i'm korean and korea shares most of its cuisine with china so it all tastes good to me.

chinese food only tastes good if it's homemade or in an upscale chinese restaurant. the fast food chinese places aren't real chinese food. it's not as greasy or msg filled as you think.

korea has it's own version of the "california roll". i guess "california roll" has become the generic term for it all. we have our "kimbab" which is just avacado, crab meat, pickled radish (not as gross as you think), cucumber, or anything you want wrapped with kim (dried seaweed).

somebody stop by my house if you want some real korean/chinese cuisine.

[don Jaime]

Inque said:
somebody stop by my house if you want some real korean/chinese cuisine.

Ooh, I want to go! Pick me!

It was my understanding Korea is pretty unique, what with the grain teas and less reliance on rice than Japan or south China. That kimbab sounds good. Do you set up your own kim chee? We do that, and it's good, but my mother chinches on the pepper because she doesn't want the intense heat it needs. You're right about home cooking, too.

This thread makes me hungry.

[Bud 'n Lou]

I used to eat sushi. My mom and stepdad are very gullible when it comes to fads. For a while, they used to eat "authentic" Mexican food all the time, then it was filet mignon almost every night (I know. I had it real rough. :-D). And for a while, they used to get sushi every weekend. I liked the tuna roll, and eel roll. And pretty much anything with avacado. :-D Wouldn't go near the squid though. *shudders thinking about those ugly suction cup thingies I forgot the name of*

[RockItShipper]

Anyone eat Pocky? I like the chocolate and pudding ones...

[Bud 'n Lou]

What's Pocky?

[RockItShipper]

Originally posted by Bud 'n Lou
What's Pocky?

It's yummy! :D

http://www.ming-ling.net/pocky/what.html

http://www.chesapeake.net/~richardkim/pocky.html

[Inque]

fan sites for pocky?! that's pretty scary. i have them all of the time. i like the chocolate ones the best, but the strawberry and milk ones are alright. but beware the imposters! peppero (korean brand) has more flavors, but it just doesn't taste right.

[redDragon]

Pocky....yummy....the chocolate ones are the best

[DR. BELCH]

So that's what it is...I noticed the "really really yummy" line in her title a couple of weeks back and kept meaning to ask about it...me being the smutty-minded devil I am I thought it was something dirty. :rolleyes:
My favorite desserts are doughnuts--esp, Bismarcks (jelly baked on the inside) and kettles (open-faced jellies). I also love butterscotch pudding, chocolate anything (esp. Hershey's Special Dark), fruitcake, black jellybeans, cherry cherie ice cream, and bundt cake.
I'm trying a new thing this week from Melaleuca...Attain fat conversion bars. They help burn adipose tissue more effeciently and build mucsle. Simply eat one 15 min. before vigorous exercise. They taste like cake but the texture's more compact and without the moisture.
Now on to Chinese restaurants--if you're ever in my corner of hell, I recommend either Kowloon's or Great Wall. The latter has a wider buffet selection, but the former makes a better sesame chicken. For Mexican there's Taco Bell and El Acapulco...but I caution you, if you want to eat at EA come hungry. Their appetizer is a meal unto itself. :)
To the shuddering Bud'n'Lou: They're called tentacles. But be careful. I've heard some hilarious bloopers by folks who get them confused with the other t-word.... :eek:

[don Jaime]

Belchie..."Taco Bell" rhymes with "infidel" and "straight from Hell." Think about it.

"Taco Tico," however, rhymes with "¡muy rico!"

[Nightflower]

I like Koala Yummies better than Pocky, but I still like Pocky. Chocolate ones are the best.

100% Chinese! Chinese food is a staple at my house....."special occasion" foods are hamburgers, spaghetti and pizza. I'm actually pretty sick of Chinese food, having to have it every day.

But I agree, Chinese take-outs do not give real Chinese food. They give Americanized fried thingies- chicken balls, spring rolls, fried rice and won-tons (Those are Chinese, but there are so much more variety than just that)

What I do like best is Chinese-style lobster...they have so much more flavor than just boiled lobster, with soy sauce and stuff. But making it is so cruel. I watched my mom make it once- while the lobster is still alive, she cuts off it's claws. Then after it scuttles around frantically, she pokes a hole in it and drains it. Then she carefully cuts the shell open, but it's still alive, strangely enough. Then she cuts it into little pieces, and lobsters are like chickens, some parts of them are still twitching.

Kinda makes chucking them into boiling water so much more humane....

[killercroc]

Originally posted by don Jaime
Belchie..."Taco Bell" rhymes with "infidel" and "straight from Hell." Think about it.

"Taco Tico," however, rhymes with "¡muy rico!"

Dude, I agree about Taco Hell, but are you actually saying that you like Taco Tico? I went to the one in Shawnee the other day, and didn't even eat half of my burrito. And that's just not something I do these days. The tortilla was all soggy and it just wasn't good. Now I know why I don't see them anymore. What do you order that's good?

Personally my favorite is Taco Mayo, cause of the price, being right by my house, and fond memories. Taco Bueno, however, seems to be a notch above the other fast food mexican places. And this Taco Cabana, I wasn't impressed!

Belch- What's up with the spoiler?

[don Jaime]

Well...it's a nostalgia thing. I actually haven't been to one in years (but the next time I visit my brother in Claremore...). I usually got the taco burger or the sancho. Haven't been to Cabana. Can't stand Mayo, it tastes too much to me of salt. Bueno is erratic (staff problems) but when they try they're best, especially the muchacos or taco salads. El Chico can be good at times, but they charge a chunk for Velveeta 'n' Rotel.

Las Palomas, though. Or Pepe Delgado's down by OU...mwaah!

If I knew how to do a spoiler myself, I'd tell you why Belchie does that. Maybe he'll happen along and show me. Or I'll PM you.

[Maxie Zeus]

I'm sitting in the Mesilla valley, heart of green chile country, and it's just painful watching you guys compare compare the relative merits of Taco Bell to Taco Bueno and all the rest. A Maine fisherman watching people discourse about the merits of Long John Silvers would understand.

Part of the pain I feel comes from the fact that I'll be moving in a week, leaving behind the enchiladas, flautas, burrito banados, tacos, tamales and carne asado. :(

[Does a Ren-style wail of despair]

[DR. BELCH]

don Jaime:
Taco Bell" rhymes with "infidel" and "straight from Hell." Think about it.
Well...admittedly I love the Gorditas and the taco salad (although I can make one from scratch that's just as good, if not better). El Acapulco has a much wider selection...but like I said, the entrees are big enough to feed two or three comfortably. I usually open with the chili--the smallest dish on the menu--and build from there. At my birthday dinner a couple of years back I marvelled everyone at the table by eating said chili, an entire plate of Nachos El Acapulco, and my birthday dessert (I don't know what's it's called, but it consisted of fruit and whipped cream in a fortune cookie crust-like curved-sided bowl).

Jeez, I never realized there were so many places whose names began with "Taco". What next--"Taco Palace"? "Taco Barn"? "Taco Emporium"? "Taco King"? "Tacos-Is-Us"?

Re: the spoiler--oh, I just thought some folks might not want to read my little commercial plug, so I kindly spoilerized it. Pocky may be good and all, but I bet it goes right to your hips.... :rolleyes: