Or, you can just order old favorites like tataki maguro (seared tuna), unagi (fresh water eel), hamachi (yellowtail) - and my personal fave rave, uni (sea urchin), tasting of the sea, and rarely found in sushi rolls. They have names like the Bora Bora Roll, the Final Fantasy Roll, the Spicy Rock Star Roll and the Disco Shrimp Roll. There’s possibly no local sushi bar with a more encyclopedic, zany, over-the-top collection of sushi rolls than Fusion Sushi, where the menu has page after page of Fusion Specials, Chef Special Rolls and Tempura Special Rolls. And I’m not complaining - I like special rolls.
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They make my plague imprisonment if not tolerable, at least bearable.ġ150 Morningside Drive, Manhattan Beach, 31 3963 Pacific Coast Hwy., Torrance, 31 1200 Pacific Coast Hwy., 31 Like many seriously committed sushi lovers, I’ve seen my taste in sushi slowly evolve over the years from a simple lozenge of rice, topped with a slice of fish, to highly ornate, even Byzantine exotic specialty rolls, with a kitchen full of ingredients…and the fish and rice largely overwhelmed by an excess of tempura crispies, Sriracha sauce, eel sauce, avocado, cucumber, cream cheese, mayonnaise - the list goes on.
The goodness of this takeout sushi transcends my worries. It’s a chance I’m willing to take, oh ye of little faith. I recognize there are folks who worry about the healthiness of eating raw fish - especially raw fish delivered from a restaurant where you’re not actually seeing the preparation at the sushi bar. I found monster amounts of pleasure with the bento boxes sold in the train stations of Japan - elegant, joyous, fun bits of art, with beautiful wrapping, and food within so perfect that you hesitate to eat it. Ranging from impossible-to-get-into hype trendies like N/Naka (which offers a $38 bento box, about one-tenth the price of dinner there!), to funky, downhome, eccentrically named sushi roll joints, where every dish is packed with tempura and Sriracha and other American twists not found in Tokyo.
And studio types love it because shouting at the chefs is considered to be good form - it’s a culinary form of therapy, with a sake chaser.Īnd in these hard times, it’s also a joy to order takeout from the many options around town. And these days, for pretty much all of us.įrom Teru Sushi and Asanebo in Studio City, to Matsuhisa in Hollywood, to R-23 in downtown LA’s Warehouse District, to branches of Sushi Roku and Katsuya all over town, being able to differentiate between sea eel and fresh water eel has marked you as a diner of distinction, someone whose tastebuds have risen far above those of the McDonald’s millions.Īlso, supermodels and Hollywood starlets like the stuff because it’s high in protein and low in calories. Ever since sushi moved from the realm of culinary exotica to cognoscenti object-of-desire back in the late 1970s, it’s been the food of choice for trendies and fast-laners.
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