Sushi

We went to a sushi restaurant for dinner tonight.  It was the same sushi place we went to our first night in Kodaira with our contacts from the university. It has a conveyor belt that brings around different types of sushi along with some signs saying, well something.  At each table is a screen where you can look through the menu and order and then when it is passing you the screen does a chime.

I was in charge of ordering off the screen (which you can see up at the top of the picture) because I was closest to Tomomie (our contact at the university) and was able to remember how to use it.  Thankfully they have pictures of most pieces of sushi but even the pictures can be deceiving.  We thought we were ordering scallops but instead got some other type of seafood.  It was white/clear and looked like it ad been scraped out of a shell perhaps?  Kelly tried it first and told me it was chewy yet slimy.  I asked her if it was better or worse than the whole squid we had here the first time that included the beak.  She said definitely better.  Even with her warning I was not prepared for what I was about to eat.  It was chewy and tough yet at the same time it had the consistency of mucus.  It took all I had to chewy, which took several minutes, and swallow.  It was definitely not better than the squid!!

Surprisingly they put mayonnaise on a lot of their sushi.  Its either drizzled on top or in between the rice and fish.  Mayonnaise is the one thing Seth cannot stand.  Even the look gives him the hebejebes!  So he would pick something, it would come and within one look he handed most of them over to Kelly and I because they had mayonnaise.  They even had cheese on a few of the pieces.  

We also had shrimp, scallops, salmon, octopus, and other unrecognizable pieces.  Overall it all was excellent and we are going to go back for sure!