This is a picture from my first day in Sicily… Oh yeah, I’m on my honeymoon. We got married..
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Finally Good Sushi in Seattle (Kisaku)
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
The picture above is the main dish that I ordered at Kisaku yesterday. It was sooooo good! This is actually an off-menu item composed of two orders of Salmon Sashimi on top of Sushi rice. The Sushi Rice is, unfortunately, hidden under sashimi. So this is sort of a Chirashi Bowl comprised 100% of Salmon.
I am a Salmon Sushi Connoisseur of sorts. I am SUPER picky when it comes to my raw Salmon. There are many restaurants with edible Salmon but few that I consider to be actually good. Here is a list of the Sushi Places that I have tried that have very good Salmon in my opinion:
- Toro’s Japanese Fusion Seafood
Their Sake (Salmon) and Sake Toro nigiri are to AMAZING (Alhambra, CA) - J Sushi
Their Salmon is on the Low end of good but still good (Seattle, WA) - Doraya
Another place with a killer Salmon Sashimi bowl absolutely Amazing. This place has a nigir called seared Salmon Toro, oh my lord, it is positively orgasmic! (Causeway Bay, Hong Kong) - Sushi one
Another Hong Kong place with great Salmon and also seared Salmon Toro. (Causeway Bay, Hong Kong)
The last two have all kinds of good Sushi but it was a salmon list so there you have it. If you are ever in Hong Kong You should really try Doraya and Sushi One. They both have multiple locations but I was living in Causeway bay so there you have it. But I digress, onwards with Kisaku!
This following picture was some other kind of Salmon called Copper River King Salmon. It was good but I think I like the normal salmon better.
The Copper River King Salmon just didn’t have the same great flavor as the salmon in the salmon Chirashi Bowl. But it was still VERY good.
The following picture is from Crystal’s plate of sushi. I suspect those of you that know me can already guess which one I stole from Crystal. I will tell you after the picture so you can guess haha.
I tried the nice and fatty looking one in the second row on the right. It was Otoro, also known as VERY Fatty Tuna. It was exquisite ($10 dollar word) and the order only cost $9!! That would have been like 18 dollars at Toros in Alhambra but what can you do.
Finally it was time for Desert. Normally I don’t eat dessert but as crystal was reading the dessert menu I heard “Fuji Apple Cheesecake.”
She had me at Cheesecake! It is a well known fact among my friends that I have an unhealthy infatuation with cheesecake. But it is a lesser known fact that I LOVE Fuji apples. The Cheesecake was definitely very good. Although the best Cheesecake I have ever had was in Hong Kong at the Intercontinental. But whatever who knows if I will ever be able to afford to go there again haha.
So to sum up. If you have not eaten at Kisaku and you are a Sushi lover in Seattle, you should eat there!
If you are a visiting Sushi lover you should eat at Kisaku!
If you, like me, were told that Shiro’s and Maneki’s are the best sushi in Seattle, and then tried them and felt crushed by their utter lack of magnificence, You should eat at Kisaku!
So really, everyone who eats sushi should eat at Kisaku!
But I must say that I only really eat sashimi and Nigiri so if you are a roll person then I don’t know if these statements will apply.
Peace out.
My 27th Birthday Days
Friday, December 24th, 2010December 23rd is my birthday. The 23rd of December was raining buckets all day long here in Thailand. Since the weather was so crappy and I still had 15 hours of my birthday left in California on the 24th of December in here, I decided to appropriate Christmas Eve as my birthday as well.
Anyways since it was raining, I thought it would be a good idea for the Ranting Jamaican to go to Kingston Jamaica …… the restaurant. This restaurant just happened to be across the street from our hotel (The Lamoon Lamai Residence). Here’s a picture of the bar, yes that is a Jamaican themed bar/restaurnat in Thailand!
Their Jerk Chicken Wings really sucked, but their Thai food was good. I ordered fried rice and pad thai in addition to my Jerk Chicken Wings. Later on that night Crystal and I went back to Kingston for drinks. This was really all that happened on day 1 of my birthday. Crappy I know but what can I say it was raining all day. Anyways it’s always great to spend quality time with Crystal so it’s all good. Usually I would get extremely drunk on my birthday but walking is dangerous enough in Thailand so I don’t feel the need to add both drunkenness and slippery sidewalks to the obstacles.
Day 2 started out pretty early we got a “taxi” to the Bophut Big Buddha Pier at about 8:45 AM. The reason why the taxi is in quotes is because it was really a pick-up truck with benches in the back. From the pier we took a ferry over to Koh Phangan and then a Taxi to Mae Haad where we went snorkeling. It was a really great trip and it was a great activity for my birthday. There was a sand bar between Mae Haad and Koh Ma, which is where people go snorkeling. I think when we were there it was high tide so the sand bar was less than a foot underwater in some places and in others was up to 4 feet underwater. So it was possible to wade across to Koh Ma fairly easily. In that last picture you can see people walking across the sandbar towards Koh Ma.
On the way back from Koh Phangan we got a nice view of the sunset. This is one of the pictures of our serene view that was such a great end of my second birthday day of my 27th birthday.
Merry Christmas my friends!