Same Victim - Different Night
Told you I was an optimist :-)
Hapa Sushi on Pearl Street again. I didn't make many notes this time because it wasn't as "exciting" as our last visit. The service was more professional is what I remember the most.
What we ordered: Hawaiian Calamari - Panko crusted calamari with a mango chili dipping sauce
What we got: This dish was actually pretty good except for the slight fishy taste and smell. (STRIKE 1)
They used English/Hot House Cucumbers in everything. (STRIKE 2) I'm used to Japanese cucumbers at Japanese restaurants. In a pinch, like I state on my website, using English cucumbers is fine, but you never, EVER, leave a thick barely edible skin on ANY cucumber. If you're using cucumbers in sushi you never, EVER, make them into Huge Chunks. If you're into Huge Chunks of Vegetables by all means, visit Hapa! (STRIKE 3)
Sunomono Salad
Oily, huge chunks of cucumber, BAD shrimp :-(
Rock & Roll - Spicy rock shrimp in Hapa's secret sauce & cucumbers
Very Good... except for the huge chunks of cucumber :-[
Hamachi Sashimi
EXCELLENT :-)
Wild Salmon Sashimi
OMG-Melt In Your Mouth-EXCELLENT :-)))
(No strike since the Wild Salmon offset any other negatives!)
This visit was much better than the first. I may go again hoping it will be even better.
Hapa Sushi on Pearl Street again. I didn't make many notes this time because it wasn't as "exciting" as our last visit. The service was more professional is what I remember the most.
What we ordered: Hawaiian Calamari - Panko crusted calamari with a mango chili dipping sauce
What we got: This dish was actually pretty good except for the slight fishy taste and smell. (STRIKE 1)
They used English/Hot House Cucumbers in everything. (STRIKE 2) I'm used to Japanese cucumbers at Japanese restaurants. In a pinch, like I state on my website, using English cucumbers is fine, but you never, EVER, leave a thick barely edible skin on ANY cucumber. If you're using cucumbers in sushi you never, EVER, make them into Huge Chunks. If you're into Huge Chunks of Vegetables by all means, visit Hapa! (STRIKE 3)
Sunomono Salad
Oily, huge chunks of cucumber, BAD shrimp :-(
Rock & Roll - Spicy rock shrimp in Hapa's secret sauce & cucumbers
Very Good... except for the huge chunks of cucumber :-[
Hamachi Sashimi
EXCELLENT :-)
Wild Salmon Sashimi
OMG-Melt In Your Mouth-EXCELLENT :-)))
(No strike since the Wild Salmon offset any other negatives!)
This visit was much better than the first. I may go again hoping it will be even better.
posted by Sushi_Gal at 8:52 PM
2 Comments:
Well Sushi Girl. I must say that you do know your Sushi. Much better than I in fact as I am a bargain hunter at heart and part of that condition means that I mostly tend to cook and eat at home. More men should do this, especialy single men like myself. When I have a woman over for dinner and she sees that I am very happy and at home in the kitchen it's almost as if it strikes her on a very deep, primal, sensual and facinating level. So much in fact that it's almost unfair to the rest of the guys. To provide a home cooked meal seems to be the way to everyones heart. And other places too. LOL Anyway, Sushi is a fantastic food to serve to guests. There is such a variety of looks and tastes and textures that can be prepaired with just a handfull of ingredients. AND, most of them can be prepaired right in the kitchen. The bottom line is that sushi is a very classy and inexpensive dinner party favorite when you know how to shop at the right places and how to make the ingredients yourself. No need to get too fancy either. The focus should always be on fun and the treat of being able to stuff one's self with something that has an air of fashonable elegance. I used to serve the raw tuna in the early days but not enough of my guests would eat it and I can only eat so much so I would wind up grilling the rest the next day. These days I have been simplifying my recipies and I find that as long as everything is fresh and no one thing is overpowering with it's seasoning everyone is happy. BTW, you should know that the word Sushi simply means " vinagered rice " it has nothing to do with seaweed or raw fish. Soooooo when you suggest sushi and someone says " Euuuuuuuu I don't like raw fish." you can pass that on. Right! What I'm getting at is sushi does not have to be fancy to be excellent. It just has to be pleasing to the eye and pallet. Also, it's great fun to let people make their own sushi rolls. They love it. Now last but not least I will say that I have been adding more and more seaweed to my diet because it is only one of the best and healthy foods that the planet has to offer. Good for the skin, thyroid, brain and just flat tastes great weather it's in soups, stir fry, wrapped around vinagered rice or even seasoned and all by itself. So I have been experimenting with an easy to make and much less time consuming recipie for super sushi. I make the rice and season it with rice vinager and sugar, then I throw in some very thinly sliced carrots. Thats right, I throw it right into the rice. Then I may add some chopped ginger and to really buff it out I add a hand full of dried crushed seaweed. The seaweed is going to pull alot of moisture so I add more vinager until it looks right. Then I take canned salmon. and use that as a filling and presto! Super Seaweed fortafied Sushi. If it wasen't for the fact that it gives you very bad gass it would be great to serve to guests. Of course if your guests are just your football buddies who cares. Might even liven things up. LOL I think I've said enough for now. All I really wanted to say was that I love your sight Sushi Girl. My friends know me as the Sushi Bastard. ( can I say that or is this a family show? ) You see it all started many years ago when I was preping sushi for a room full of guests. One was watching intently and said. " Your a Sushi Master " Unfortunatly the music was up loud and the room heard it as Bastard. The title stuck. I like it actually. I even started working together a plot for a Japanese comic book charicter who's mother became pregnant by a rough sushi chief and then was left in shame. She had the child and as soon as he bacame of age she put him in both Samuri and Sushi school. He took to his lessons well and at a very ealy age he had become a most amazing master of both arts. When he became old enough to leave home she told him the story of his no good father and how he had brought such shame to the house of her ancesters. She explained how it was his destiney to find and kill his father for his trickery and that all of his trainning had been done with this pourpous in mind. All she could tell him was that he was missing his right index finger due to a drunken vegatable chopping spree and that he travels all of Japan far and wide working as a Sushi chief. The Boy agreed that justice should be served with a side of pickeled cucumber and at that very moment he began walking the rolling road of vinagerd vengence for he had become THE SUSHI BASTARD...... It was just a thought... Pardon the spelling
Max
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