The Sushi Experience

Friday evening is always the best moment in almost everyone's life! And I am no exception.
So on a cool Friday April 3 I was excited because it was time to temporary forget the action plan business and clear the mind..even if it was for 2 hours.

So Instructors, participants all went down to a sushi restaurant in the vicinity called Uokura. This was a unique restaurant because it only serves sushi.

For those who are not in the know. Sushi refers to an indigenous Japanese dish that consists of cold cooked rice dressed with vinegar that is shaped into bite-sized pieces and topped with raw or cooked fish, or formed into a roll with fish, egg, or vegetables and wrapped in seaweed.

In this restaurant, I saw so many types of sushis some I never knew ever existed! I even got to taste the restaurant's special dish a hamburg sushi! This was meat steak with a ball of rice..it was nice
I had a chance to also eat some fried squid! It was so tasty..I couldnt relate it to that ugly creature that I see in the water bodies! I saw sushi made of raw fish eggs, crab, salmon, Octopus, lobster, shrimps...oh so many some I cant remember

What was unique about the restaurant?
Now I am sounding like Table Talk with Timothy Bukhumune :) And I know some of you might have me for that :)
Apart from it being a sushi only restaurant, there is sort of a bar area where you all sit- bar style. And the cool bit is that instead of having a normal bar table, there is a sort of conveyer belt system. On this converyer belt, different kinds of sushi are placed and they move around the belt.



The chefs were standing right infront of us...just like bar tender style and they were making the sushi as we ate/watched. It was great.Then on the wall above them, there were wooden boards written in Japanese. I was told they contained the names of all the sushi suppliers. I thought that was neat!
The rules of the sushi eating game were:
If you like the sushi type, you pick it off the conveyer belt. However, once you have picked it, you are not allowed to return it.
So this meant that one had to be pretty sure before they picked a plate. And for this our instructors came in very handy! The plates were small, the size of side plates and on each plate where two pieces of sushi

The sushi price ranged from 150 to 250 yen per plate about 1500-2500 Ug X. The price of one sushi was distingushed by the colour of the plate it was placed on. while the plate color and sushi price was reflected on the menu Another rule was that one could pick and eat as many plates as their stomach and wallet could take.
And as one ate, they were supposed to pile the plates they had eaten infront of them. So at the end, each person's plates were counted and a corresponding bill given.

What did I eat?
Well, since it was time to experience..I ate some sushis that I dont recall. But some of the notable ones were fried squid. It was tasty and no different from fried chicken drumsticks.
I also ate a seaweed that tasted like one of the local green vegetables..may be steamed dodo.
I cant recall the taste of the raw shrimp with a bit of soy sauce but it was also wonderful. Then the cram shells I ate tasted just like gizzard..and I would know because I am a heavy gizzard eater:)

So after nine plates of sampling different sushis, I called it a night.It was a good experience...I am glad I went .
Regards
Satisfied Sushi client :)