As usual Moxie sticks her nose in the wrapping paper. She has to inspect everything:
We had dinner at Sushi of Gari on Friday night. N thinks this is one of the best sushi places in NYC (less pretentious and greater focus on the food). She must have spent a fortune in her quest for perfect sushi. haha
I know, I know, we always seem to be eating sushi! A and N were shocked that we weren't floored by Chutoro. Scacrilege but I'll say it ... Chutoro just doesn't do it for me. I get a bigger kick from eating uni :D Anyway the sushi was good, though not a wow. Maybe I'm just not a big fan of fusion style sushi ... or maybe we should have gotten the omekase.
We also had a soba lunch on Saturday at Sobaya. I got the cold soba (their specialty) and Tororo set. I loved it! Tororo is japanese yam served over rice. The tororo is white and gooey with the texture of mooshed up cereal. Weird but I like gooey stuff. Why don't they have a place like this in Boston? :( Oh and they make their own soba with ingredients flown from Japan. Though the Japanese purist might be horrified to find that the soba is actually handmade by a little hispanic guy heehee.
Ok ok lest you think that we eat only Japanese food, we did grudgingly go for Italian on Saturday at Assenzio in East Village. The buffalo mozerella with prosciutto was good. I also learned that buffalo mozerella is made from buffalo milk. Hrmmm....
My Jumbo Shrimp with Black Pasta dish:
On Christmas day we watched Memoirs of a Geisha. I had to watch it since I read the book, even though I knew it'd suck. The movie was slow zzz and it was awful watching supposedly Japanese people speak with a Chinese accent. I can tell myself that they're speaking Japanese, but it gets tricky when the americans come. They still speak English, though the chubby geisha pumpkin adopts an american accent. HRMMM. I'll give it a 5/10, at least I enjoyed looking at the pretty kimonos haha.
Of course the gifts! The best one ... for me from me. Yay a mulberry bag! Saks where is my order???? We also got a mini convection oven from my generous cousin L and a cool free people scarf, also a $25 starbucks gift card that I promptly spent. Very cool!
7 comments:
Nice! =) Yah we love Japanese food too... btw I tried natto with ikura at the sushi place in denver and it was quite good. they marinate it with a little bit of country vegetables and serve it akita-style.
yum!!! u know i could eat natto everyday ....
u know, as much as i like japanese, natto is something that i can't bring my guts to try. the thought of it being fermented just kinda puts me off. just how does it taste like actually?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too! From _all_ of us...
Waiting for a photo of your bag lah..
fq it kind of has a slightly bitter taste? Hrmm hard to describe lah hehe. I dare you to try :))
s* ...it's been 2 weeks and i haven't received it. hrmmp unacceptable!!!! i should just return it!!! (like real huh... just threatening lah. i got it on sale, hard to pass up)
Oh god, I love Sobaya! I didn't try the tororo but my friend did and I think he liked it (although at first he forgot what he ordered and couldn't tell from just looking at the bowl...of mushy stuff).
SOOOBAA! Okay, I think I'll eat soba tonight. :)
r> The tororo set is seriously all carbs! But I like :)
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