I Lost My Virginity

Not to the opposite sex, but to Genki Sushi.

Do you know how hard it is for us who are studying abroad to take it, when we see people posting up pictures of local food in their blogs? Well, it is like someone who feels like shitting, but when he or she sits on the toilet bowl, the shit just wouldn't come out. So, it feels like we are trying to release something, that is our craving for local food, but it just wouldn't happen. Okay, perhaps I should stop talking about shit, because I have had enough of shit recently.

We always say people who show us those pictures of food are cruel, because they know we will not get to taste them, but yet, they still show to us on purpose. But why not we think the say way, and do exactly the same thing to these people, isn't it? I am studying in Japan, but sometimes I feel that the pictures of food that I post up are mostly Malaysian food, as I do not blog on the Japanese food I have here. So, I will do this time time, in this very post.

It was this dark at five-thirty in the evening.

Well, it may sound quite amazing here, but I have never stepped my foot into any Genki Sushi restaurant after more than one and a half year living in Japan. Pretty sad case, ain't it? Anyway, my fellow Malaysians friends were talking about sushi recently, and we decided to have a sushi dinner that night. After all, it has been some time since I last had sushi in Japan, and I should treat myself to some nice food once in a while.

Here are the sushi I had, which I reckon will make at least some of you to start drooling over them at the end of this post.

サーモンペッパー炙り - Saamon peppaa aburi | My friend introduced this one to me, in fact, they ordered ten plates of this for five of us immediately after we took our seat, without needing to ask who wants this first. But it was indeed a perfect choice. The sauce with the pepper used made it taste something like bak kua (roasted pork).

げその唐揚げ - Geso no karaage | Deep-fry squid's legs. It is best eaten while it is still hot.

とびっこ - Tobikko | It means flying fish roe, and what I love most about this is that I get to feel the tiny fish roe when I bite on them.

びん長まぐろ - Bin chou maguro | This was just plain tuna, nothing special about it.

うなぎ蒲焼 - Unagi kabayaki | To be honest here, this is the worst unagi I have ever eaten so far because the meat is too soft and not tender at all.

サーモン大とろ - Saamon ootoro | Notice the gold colour of the plate? This plate cost 231 yen (RM 7.40) but it was worth it. The raw fatty flesh of tuna fish really gave me that orgasmic feeling.

サーモン - Saamon | I know she likes this very much.

えびフライ - Ebi furai | Just like the karaage, this one is also best eaten while it is still hot. The crispy bread crumbs covering the big prawns inside with some mayonnaise as the topping was too good to handle.

焼サーモン - Yaki saamon | The roasted salmon. It was not bad.

Ten plates of sushi, to give me full sanctification for the night.

Anyway, one thing about my style of eating sushi is that I always have a slow start, and more often than not, I will be the one with the least of plates during the early stage. I prefer to take it easy at first, without much rushing. In between that, I will take some sips of hot green tea while chatting away with my friends. Slowly but surely, I will begin to catch up and in the end, I find myself becoming among the one with the highest stack of plates.

My stack of plates is the one on the front left.

Drooling now?