Sushi Sampling

Over the past two weeks, I've had more sushi than I've ever had before. That's not saying much since I've never had sushi until about two weeks ago.

For my birthday, my family and I ate at a local Japanese steakhouse...complete with hibachi grills. I had some shrimp and scallop hibachi, calamari, and two foreign beers. Good stuff there. But I also figured I'd try out some sushi. The idea of raw fish has never appealed to me. Until recently, that is. It's been growing on me for the past few months for some reason.

Sooo, I ended up having some salmon sushi. It was a la carte, with just rice...no seaweed rolls, fillings, or anything. It was surprisingly good and tasted kinda how I would've expected it to...weird as that sounds. There were only three pieces, but I downed them pretty fast.

Fast forward to today, and I decided to try out some more sushi. Had me some tuna, eel, and some sort of crab rolls. The tuna was pretty good, although it was kinda weird not seeing tuna all shredded up in a Starkist tin. The crab roll was also really good...some of that may have to do with the extra fillings that came with the roll. After downing my tuna, I decided I wanted more sushi. I figured since I was trying out new stuff, I'd go all out and try the eel roll. I've never had cooked eel before, but I can vouch for raw eel. It was kinda squishy when I got to the eel and tasted kinda like eggplant. Although, that may have been the fillings that tasted like eggplant. Hell if I know. All I do know is that the eel roll was good. That and my sushi orders came out to $15. It was definitely worth it though.

Bottom line: give sushi a shot...you might like it. This message brought to you by a former "non-sushier."