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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 2:06 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
I think this is at least the third kaiten I've been to: One in Westwood somewhere (forgot the name) ages ago and The Frying Fish in Little Tokyo.
Yeah like you said...because the kaiten experience is typically not up to par when compared to a traditional sushi-ya I haven't been itching to go to one. Maybe in Japan it's different though.
Maguro bito kaitenzushi in Tokyo is supposed to be pretty famous because it's good.
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 46182 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country:
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 3:42 am Post subject:
Ah, yes. Once again The Goldster and I agree about something.
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Jonathan Gold Says The Tsukemen at Tsujita LA is "Life-Changingly Good"
Thursday, December 1, 2011, by Kat Odell
The Goldster loves his noodles, and today he dishes on those served at new Sawtelle addition Tsujita LA. While he enjoys the pricey evening omakase, it's ramen that he is after, both the traditional kind and the hipper tsukemen, "a Tokyo-born dish of bare, cooled noodles, served with a superconcentrated dipping sauce of reduced, fish-scented pork broth." He even uses the phrase "life-changingly good" to describe the latter.
But the revelation at Tsujita, what separates it from every other Japanese restaurant in town, is the lunchtime ramen �\ specify hard-cooked �\ that float in soup made from chicken, fish and long-boiled kurobuta bones. The gossamer noodles act more as texture than as substance; they add little weight to the broth. Or better yet, get the tsukemen: thicker, burlier, more slippery noodles, pure chew, with the tensile strength of hand-pulled Lanzhou mian; with syrup-dense dipping sauce porkier than pork itself.
Sex And Blunts: Two Men Arrested For Inappropriate Fast Food Orders
In Goshen, Ct., John Traonetta, 35, was charged with second-degree harassment after ordering takeout and requesting to perform a sex act on a teenaged female employee at the Zoar Drive-In. Traonetta has agreed to write an apology to the woman.
Moving down the East Coast, Shawn Porter, 32, of Deltona, Fl. got himself arrested after asking for "a blunt and some herbs" at a Burger King drive-through. The cashier could smell marijuana coming from his car and a store manager called 911. The manager acknowledged that the incident was more of a nuisance than a major emergency. The police ran Porter's tags, located his car and discovered about 28 grams of pot -- hundreds of dollars worth of the drug. He is being held on a $1,000 bond.
Maybe enough people have called fast food an addictive vice that people have started to think drive-throughs are places to fulfill all your guilty desires. We fear what could come next.
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 46182 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country:
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:42 pm Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Sex And Blunts: Two Men Arrested For Inappropriate Fast Food Orders
In Goshen, Ct., John Traonetta, 35, was charged with second-degree harassment after ordering takeout and requesting to perform a sex act on a teenaged female employee at the Zoar Drive-In. Traonetta has agreed to write an apology to the woman.
Moving down the East Coast, Shawn Porter, 32, of Deltona, Fl. got himself arrested after asking for "a blunt and some herbs" at a Burger King drive-through. The cashier could smell marijuana coming from his car and a store manager called 911. The manager acknowledged that the incident was more of a nuisance than a major emergency. The police ran Porter's tags, located his car and discovered about 28 grams of pot -- hundreds of dollars worth of the drug. He is being held on a $1,000 bond.
Maybe enough people have called fast food an addictive vice that people have started to think drive-throughs are places to fulfill all your guilty desires. We fear what could come next.
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 46182 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country:
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:33 am Post subject:
Michelin Restaurant Diner Hospitalized After Eating Puffer Fish
By Yoree Koh
The chef of a two-star Michelin restaurant in Tokyo that specializes in potentially deadly �gfugu,�h or puffer fish, handed in his license to serve it to public health officials on Friday after a diner who consumed the creature�fs poisonous liver was hospitalized.
A 35-year-old woman, part of a couple who specifically requested the dish, was taken to hospital on Nov. 10 after losing feeling in her lips and suffering a headache on her way home from dining at Fukuji, a fugu specialty restaurant in Tokyo�fs upscale Ginza area, according to Kazunori Suzuki, a public health official at Tokyo�fs Chuo ward office. Attending doctors concluded the food poisoning was from the puffer fish.
�gI can�ft say anything else except that I am deeply sorry. I am just so sorry,�h said Takeshi Yasuge, the head chef at Fukuji, in a phone interview with JRT on Friday evening. �gMy heart is in chaos.�h
Mr. Yasuge said he served about 10 to 20 grams of fugu liver to a couple after the man, a frequent customer who said he had eaten it at other establishments, asked for it. The woman, 35, hesitated at first but later tried it. Mr. Yasuge said he also ate a few grams.
�gI don�ft really know why I did it, but I guess my will was swayed,�h said Mr. Yasuge about why he served the meat.
Business was temporarily suspended for a week while city officials and police investigated the restaurant and questioned Mr. Yasuge. The 62-year-old chef could face fines and possible jail time for illegally serving the toxic liver, a violation of the capital�fs food safety laws.
The incident happened at what would have been a professionally rewarding time for Mr. Yasuge. Fukuji was awarded a two star rating in the new Michelin guide on Tokyo area restaurants that hit store shelves Friday.
A Michelin spokesman said it does not intend to alter the restaurant�fs status. �gThe decision was based on dishes the agent ordered off the menu.�h
Safer parts of the fish can be served, raw, fried or stewed, but the liver is required to be cut out by specially trained chefs licensed in handling the fish. The liver houses a neurotoxin that paralyzes victims while leaving them mentally aware and, in worst cases, is potent enough to kill.
�gHe (Mr. Yasuge) is a licensed fugu chef so he knows how dangerous it is to serve liver. There are rules for this and he did not follow it,�h said Mr. Suzuki the city health official.
Eight people have been hospitalized from fugu poisoning in Tokyo in the decade ended 2010, according to the Tokyo Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health. One person died in 2001.
But the fugu�fs liver is considered both the most delicious and potentially most lethal part of the fish, an alluring combination that has tempted gourmands to order it despite the danger. This is the most recent reported case of a person getting ill from fugu in three years, but it is believed that the pricey dish is consumed more frequently -- unofficially available at specialty restaurants like Fukuji.
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