At last, I have food porn to entertain you all with. You will have to excuse the bluriness of some of the pictures. I admit that I am a crappy photographer who has not yet learn to probably handle her camera. I'm lazy. I will learn in time. With my excuses out of the way, I bring you today's fooding.
Jenny, Crystal and I headed down to a Japanese place. I can't remember the name which is why I am not a food journalist. I should really start making a point of writing this stuff down in a notebook. Anyways....
They do some great sushi.
The one one of the front right was very unique - pesto, sun-dried tomato and avocado. Sushi - Italian style. I'm a sucker for anything with pesto but y'know it wasn't like the best sushi ever or anything. But it totally gets thumbs up for creativity.
The sushi on the top right is chicken with a sweet sauce. Quite tasty. On the bottom left is my favourite inari. Mmm. Sweet rice in bean curd. Yum. On the top left is teriyaki eel sushi! I'm so happy I finally got to try some eel and I am not sorry. It was delicious. I loved the texture so soft. Combined with the teriyaki sauce, it actually had somewhat of a sweet taste. I could definitely have eaten more of this. Perhaps I should order a whole meal of teriyaki eel next time I go for Japanese.
Jen and I also shared this dish of chicken katsu curry. This is another thing I've been wanting to try since I saw it on The Girl Who Ate Everything. It was good. Not like "Oh, I want to eat this every day of my life" good but generally satisfying. It wasn't hot which is good because I can't handle anything less than the mildest of mild dishes. It reminded me of a Indian curry my mother cooks but less spicy. As far as katsu goes though, I still maintain you cannot beat Nishiki's chicken katsu with miso sauce. Actually, so far I have yet to try any Japanese as good as Nishiki. Crystal we must take you there sometime.
After lunch, we headed down to the Ferry Building to fulfill our gelato cravings at Valentino's. I love gelato. So smooth and creamy. I sampled a few new flavours including bubblegum (which tasted just like strawberry bubblegum!) before deciding on my usual chocolate and Italian cookies and cream. The chocolate was dark, rich and delicious as always. The cookies and cream was mostly cream which was good because the cream is the part I enjoyed - really tasty. But the cookies were a little strange. I didn't like them. It's really hard to explain how it tasted but it was kinda sweet and plasticky. I think it's about the only thing I've seen Valentino's do wrong. I guess gelato is their specialty not cookies. They do serve things like sandwiches and soup though. Jen and I couldn't really figure out why you'd want to order those things unless it was to line your stomach before loading it with gelato goodness.Labels: dessert, Japanese |
