The Brain of Shawn

Unagi!

Our AWESOME sushi in Portland. It was truly awesome.

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21 comments

Nathan:

Gesundheit!

July 26th, 2008 at 12:40 am

Tania:

I’m only seeing two pieces of unagi in your pict. Oddly enough, I’ve been craving miso and tamago yaki all week. Maybe in the morning…

July 26th, 2008 at 2:35 am

Shawn Powers:

You’re absolutely correct, Tania, there were two pieces of unagi. The “Oregon Roll” on the left had unagi in it, but it wasn’t obvious by sight or taste.

I’m a total sushi n00b, so Katherine (my co-worker from Linux Journal) ordered a variety of goodies. EVERYTHING was wonderful. It was my first time with pretty much everything on the plate. Awesome.

I requested the unagi due to an episode of Friends. If you’ve seen it, you know which episode I mean.

July 26th, 2008 at 2:43 am

Tania:

Good sushi is just wonderful John’s twin sister lived in Japan for 3 years, and she and I get sushi sometimes. and john’s dad is currently married to a Korean chef who 2 years ago went to a sushi school for 6 weeks. Ummm.

I totally forgot about the Friends reference until you mentioned it. Gods, Ross was such a goon.

July 26th, 2008 at 2:56 am

Shawn Powers:

Very cool about your sushi opportunities.

And yeah, around our house, a commonly overheard retort is, “Ahhh, salmon skin roll…” (Which was Rachel’s response to Ross, for those that have no idea what I am talking about)

July 26th, 2008 at 2:59 am

Tania:

Hee! Sorry about the food blather. I’m hungry and tired and can’t go to bed yet. Grr. Back to catching up on my reading and fiddling with Charlotte’s story.

July 26th, 2008 at 3:14 am

catherine (FOOD SNOB:

Hey! A food post from Shawn! THAT’S been a long time!

Mighty tasty-looking sushi, by the way!

I’ve seen a lot of Friends, and don’t remember that episode . . . bummer!

July 26th, 2008 at 9:15 am

carlie:

The “Oregon Roll” consists of blackberries and Evergreen trees, I’ll assume.

We have “Texas Rolls” here, too — I stay far away from them. They seem to always vary a bit but usually it’s some mammal the chef shot on the way to work that day.

July 26th, 2008 at 10:03 am

Mark:

*sigh* Your sushi makes me sad…. sad that it’s been so long since I’ve been to a good Japanese restaurant that does good unagi.

July 26th, 2008 at 10:10 am

John the Scientist:

UNAGI!!! One of my all-time favorites. I used to get a 15 piece unagi meal for $9 at the Odakyu Dept. Store food court to take home as part of dinner about twice a week whrn I lived in Tokyo. God, I miss Japan.

Next for Shawn: FUGU!

July 26th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

Vince:

Prometheus was chained to a rock in the Caucasus, where his liver was eaten daily by an eagle (some say a vulture), which was regenerated every night so it could be eaten again (due to his immortality) for stealing fire from Zeus and giving it to us mortals for our use. It is therefore disrespectful to Prometheus when you eat raw meat/fish/vegetables.

And therefore, I don’t.

Fire good.

July 26th, 2008 at 9:16 pm

Michelle K:

It is therefore disrespectful to Prometheus when you eat raw meat/fish/vegetables.

Or liver.

July 26th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

Vince:

Michelle, especially live!

July 27th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Vince:

Liver, doggone it, liver.

Stupid spellchecker!

July 27th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

MWT:

Ooo… you’re getting well-edumacated on sushi I see. How’s the chopsticks skills coming along?

July 27th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

Anne C.:

Oooooh… unagi… [/Homer Simpson gargle]

July 28th, 2008 at 8:22 am

Jeri:

<– not a unagi fan, too slimy. But I love many other sushi and sashimi items. Spider roll for the Americanized palate - cajun tuna sashimi for searing the tastebuds - and plain old salmon and tuna ngiri sushi as a staple.

July 29th, 2008 at 1:12 am

Katherine: