Not A Promising Start To Dinner

[jyl]

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]

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]

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

[jyl]

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]

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]

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

[Don Plumley]

Oh for the love of God, LEAVE

[scottmandue]

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]

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

[Noah930]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by jyl

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]

Do you have the number of the local poison control?

[jyl]

Saba = mackerel

Soba = noodle type

Sucker = jyl

[vash]

"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]

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

[look 171]

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]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

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]

not so much sushi as fish colored styrofoam.

[Chocaholic]

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.