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jyl 09-11-2013 02:27 PM

Not A Promising Start To Dinner
 
In Boston. At a sushi place near the hotel. "Do you have Spanish mackerel?" Blank stare. "Mackerel?" Lots of chattering, in Chinese. Finally someone says saba. "Okay. Toro?" More blankness. I'm brought a menu with pictures. Uh oh. Not feeling so good about this. And the saba tastes pickeled.

scottmandue 09-11-2013 02:33 PM

Leave now!

I have had good sushi in Boston.

Get down to Legals for some seafood and do a yelp/google search for sushi.

jyl 09-11-2013 02:34 PM

I'm too hungry. Switching to rolls now. They have to be able to do a basic spicy tuna roll ???

jyl 09-11-2013 02:36 PM

And then I'll go next door and salvage the night with a beer and a burrito. Burmese last night was good so Boston won't fail me entirely.

RWebb 09-11-2013 02:36 PM

sorry - am just recovering from a fabulous sushi dinner last night - better than anything in PDX I think

you could have some bosstown baked beans and salt cod...

jyl 09-11-2013 02:39 PM

Hmm. The roll appeared in 1 minute. I think it is pre made.

Don Plumley 09-11-2013 02:42 PM

Oh for the love of God, LEAVE

scottmandue 09-11-2013 02:42 PM

Not sure where you are... but you should be able to hop on the trolley and get to Boylston Street... a lot of good food options there... or over to the aquarium... or Harvard square... for future reference.

Noah930 09-11-2013 02:58 PM

Fugakyu. That was my favorite sushi place in Boston. IIRC it's over in Coolidge Corner.

Noah930 09-11-2013 03:02 PM

Best burrito (for me) was Baja Betty's in Brookline Village.

Thai is good throughout the city. Brown Sugar was my favorite over by Boston U.

jyl 09-11-2013 03:04 PM

One roll had been assembled in a different order than it was cut up in, suspicious. The other had been deep fried for heaven's sake, but not enough to make it deep fried, just enough to make the rice oily and hard. Bummer that I'm not bulemic.

I think places like that make it because guys like me are hungry, tired, and have only an hour to eat something then get back to the hotel.

I'm too depressed for a burrito now.

My daughter wants sushi this weekend. I'm taking her to Hokusei on Belmont in PDX. Will be about 1,000% better than what I just "ate".

teenerted1 09-11-2013 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jyl (Post 7651303)
In Boston. At a sushi place near the hotel. Lots of chattering, in Chinese. Finally someone says saba. . And the saba tastes pickeled.


CHINESE???? you are in the wrong place you need someone from the land of the rising sun to make sushi.

isnt SABA a kind of noodle?

Tobra 09-11-2013 03:29 PM

Do you have the number of the local poison control?

jyl 09-11-2013 03:29 PM

Saba = mackerel

Soba = noodle type

Sucker = jyl

vash 09-11-2013 03:30 PM

"nay mo gow choi la?!!!""

translation in cantonese.."you have got to be BSing me"

okay..maybe it means..you have got to be kidding me?"

drop that on the chinese dude.

Shaun @ Tru6 09-11-2013 03:38 PM

I just polished off my sushi from Star Market. Probably a tie.

look 171 09-11-2013 03:40 PM

Many of the newer Japanese restaurants are Korean owned down here. There are few old fashion family owned ones we've been going to for a long time. if they retired, that's it.

dtw 09-11-2013 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa (Post 7651433)
I just polished off my sushi from Star Market. Probably a tie.

Stahhh Mahhhket has sushi? Oh man... that is so funny.

John, seriously...get to Chinatown and hit Ginza, post-haste.

Shaun @ Tru6 09-11-2013 04:42 PM

not so much sushi as fish colored styrofoam.

Chocaholic 09-11-2013 04:46 PM

You go to Boston and eat Sushi? For next time, there's a crustacean from nearby waters called.....'lobster'. Might be a better experience. Save sushi for the west coast.


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