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In article <Btur9B.LMq@rice.edu>, garrett@math.rice.edu (David Garrett)
wrote:
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> >Mr. Weather inquires about good places for sushi
> 

If someone hasn't mentioned it yet, Tokyo Bowl on El Camino (and Reseda) in
Clear Lake has one of the best selections of sushi in town. Best of all,
it's one of the cheapest sushi restaurants, too!

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I would have to agree that Nippon on Montrose is very good.  It
is my favorite.

I have gone to Miakoa (sp???) on Kirby and was slightly dissapointed.
It is good but the portions are smaller, and appropriately cheaper.
The service is somewhat distant because you sit farther from the
server and cannot see how the food is prepared.  In my opinion, this
is half the fun of ordering sushi.  Nippon gives you a good close
up experience if you go upstairs.

I have also found that Kroger carries the seaweed rolls, ginger, and
the horseradish so you can make your own.  Last nite I surprised my
wife by going out to pick up chineese food (Tam's on Montrose is
excellent for take out but somewhat expensive).  I used the rice that
they had made and "quick rolled" some california rolls for starters.
Not only were they good but they were very easy.

Recipie:

seaweed wrapper
rice
cucumber sliced lengthwise
avacado sliced lengthwise
immitation crap strips

roll and cut into 1/2" thick servings
serve with soy sauce, green horseradish, and ginger.

This is a good introduction for someone who does not know what sushi is.

P. Shuff
SE Sun Houston

In article <Btur9B.LMq@rice.edu> garrett@math.rice.edu (David Garrett) writes:
>
>>Mr. Weather inquires about good places for sushi
>
>Nippon on Montrose has good sushi; they have relatively inexpensive 
>lunch specials (box lunches w/3-4 different kinds of sushi), and they 
>usually run a ``happy hour'' of sorts where you can get sushi for 99 cents 
>a piece.
>
	Can't agree more. Nippon is very quiet and nice, and has a good 
	lunch menu. They also have some varieties of sushi in their lunch
	specials. If you are keen on raw fish, sashimi is served there too.
	Our usual routine though, is have a very good lunch at Nippon, then,
	walk to Marble Slabs a few doors down, and stuff ourselves with
	some of the most fatastic ice cream :)
>
>Dave Garrett
>Department of Mathematics, RIce University, Houston, TX


Rose Wang
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In article <mumble> shuff@sunlab (Pat Shuff  Sun Houston SE) writes:
|I have gone to Miakoa (sp???) on Kirby and was slightly dissapointed.

Miyako (as others have posted already).  Means "cherry", as in tree.
Right?  Anybody?

|It is good but the portions are smaller, and appropriately cheaper.
|The service is somewhat distant because you sit farther from the
|server and cannot see how the food is prepared.

Oh, too bad.  I haven't been to the new location yet, but the old one
in the Village had a bar.  No bar in the new one?

|Recipie:
|seaweed wrapper
|rice
|cucumber sliced lengthwise
|avacado sliced lengthwise
|immitation crap strips

Yuck!  (Sorry, couldn't help it.)

|roll and cut into 1/2" thick servings
|serve with soy sauce, green horseradish, and ginger.

Hmm, from what I've seen and heard, the main obstacles to qwik'n'eezy
sushi-at-home are: insufficient knowledge of raw fish on part of cook,
inadequate knife (sushi knives are pretty specialized), and unsuitable
rice.  (The first two are not a factor for California or cucumber or
"spider", etc., rolls.)  So the Chinese takeout rice worked fine?

(This is a great idea; thanks Pat.  Somehow, because I know I can't
get fresh enough fish, I had given up on all home sushi.)

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[Disclaimer: I only like sushi if it's cooked. :-]

In article <Btyp29.IyF@rice.edu> gamble@owlnet.rice.edu (Ben Gamble) writes:
>In article <mumble> shuff@sunlab (Pat Shuff  Sun Houston SE) writes:
>|immitation crap strips
             ^^^^
Freudian slip? I got a chuckle out of it, anyway.

>inadequate knife (sushi knives are pretty specialized)

??? (See the disclaimer above.) I thought the only requirement for a knife was
that it successfully separate one part of the piece being cut from the other
part.
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In article <Btyp29.IyF@rice.edu>, gamble@owlnet.rice.edu (Ben Gamble) writes:
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|> Oh, too bad.  I haven't been to the new location yet, but the old one
|> in the Village had a bar.  No bar in the new one?

The new one does have a bar, but the place is so big that you can
easily be seated at a table where you can't see it.  The Miyako on
Kirby also has what I call a "semi-tatami" room.  It is a platform with
tatami mats on it and what at first look like the appropriate low
tables.  Then you discover that they are normal height tables put into
"pits" in the platform.  This also allows us unlimber gaijin to sit
western style on the mats, but look like we are sitting at a
traditional table.

Oh, while Miyako carries several Japanese beers, Kirin, Asahi, and
Sapporo, the *smallest* bottle you can order is 16 oz. (well, it's ml
equivalent).  The Kirin only comes in a ~20 oz bottle.  If you are a
lightweight, order American beer, or split the Japanese ones. (Shame
on all of you who thought "Well, just don't drink all of the Japanese
beer!")

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In article <1992Sep1.013609.12538@menudo.uh.edu> rosewang@menudo.uh.edu (Rose Wang) writes:
>	Can't agree more. Nippon is very quiet and nice, and has a good 
>	lunch menu. They also have some varieties of sushi in their lunch
>	specials. If you are keen on raw fish, sashimi is served there too.


So can someone explain the difference between sushi and sashimi?
I got a vague impression somewhere that "sushi" really refers to
"little bits of food wrapped with rice and seaweed" not "raw fish"
and that "sashimi" is what really means "raw fish" specifically.
But everyone I know says no, sushi is raw fish and sashimi must
refer to a specific method of preparing raw fish.

I have just looked in the dictionary and it says that "sushi" is
raw fish OR seaweed wrapped around rice, and that "sashimi" is
thinly sliced raw fish.  But dictionary definitions never really
tell the whole story.

What I want to know is, if I slice zucchini and carrots and wrap them
with flavored sticky rice in sushi nori, is it sushi or not?  ;-)

	Cathy
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