Question for Sebby
 

The one thing I can't find around here is gyu tataki. How can you beat a bowl of razor thin raw filet topped with shoyu (I could do without the raw egg, but it's not that bad)?

Disaster avoided
 

A maple-leaf sucker? Gwnc?

Question for Sebby
 

We have a place that we go to here that has good Toro all the time* and (I kid you not) Super Extra Special Yummy Toro only a few times per year. The Super Extra Special Yummy Toro is perhaps the best thing I have ever eaten. I hate you all for making me crave this right now.



*they also always have so many "specials" that they have to bring over a big white board of their specials before you order (hi, Burger!)

Question for Sebby
 

Name a better cut of sushi/sashimi.

Question for Sebby
 

Fuck all you people. I was going to be healthy today, eat a big salad and some fruit at lunch. And now I need sushi. Which is not un-healthy, but still.

Yesterday, cheesesteak, today, sushi.

Question for Sebby
 

My wife and I sit at the bar a lot and ask the shef about the specials. The guy in my area is really nice and lets me know when they have the salmon belly. Try that. It is the salmon version of Toro. Melts in your mouth.

Question for Sebby
 

Otoro? I think that's the name. That is the uber-sushi.

Question for Sebby
 

I tried salmon skin rolls sounds gross but it was actually good. Soba NIppon was good also. There is a rest. in the Waldorf that is supposed to be good.

Question for Sebby
 

Katsu-ya. The one on sushi row in Studio City (not the uber trendy Phillippe Stark decor one in Brentwood that has/is going to open up and quite possibly ruin a good thing at the Studio City place too). The Studio City one is in a strip mall, with cheap decor and the best sushi I have ever eaten.

Chocolate
 

Okay, so Gwinky and Paisley are coming to my house for a chocolate orgy, 70% only.

Paisley, I disagree with you on the Scharffenberger. I had heard good things about it from folks like you, but then I bought about six different kinds of 70% chocolate at my local gourmet grocer and did a side-by-side tasting. Next to the various varieties of Valrhona, etc., the Scharffenberger was nasty.

And I remembered the one kind of fruit I will do with chocolate: bananas. But only in banana splits or in this really killer chocolate chunk banana bread pudding I made one time.

And last, I am the person who won't eat the chocolate chip cookies with walnuts. Walnuts are the only kind of nuts I don't absolutely adore--they're almost as bad as the chocolate oranges when it comes to abomination. Chocolate chip cookies are much better with toasted pecans. Mmmmmmm.

tm

eta that milk chocolate goes along with underbaked cookies in defining American "taste." Too sweet, no oomph.

Chocolate
 

Have you tried the penguins?

"The notion that chocolate should be a pleasurable experience moved us to create enjoyable novelties with our penguins. L.A. Burdick pays hommage to these flight-less, tuxedoed birds of Antarctica with our hand-piped ganache of dark chocolate and lemon, almond arms, dark chocolate dressing, and accented with white chocolate."

I think homage is misspelled? A friend is very into penguins. I may have to get her some of these . . .

Question for Sebby
 

Damn, TM. Sit the fuck down. Yellowtail is for rookies.

Or were you trying to appeal to potential simpleminded newbers?

Question for Sebby
 

I feel the exact same way about Tomoe sushi here in New York. Non-descript, hole-in-the-wall. Best sushi (and possibly, food) I've ever had.

TM

Question for Sebby
 

Please. Yellowtail is good. How could it be any more for rookies than salmon or tuna? I judge a sushi place on how good their yellowtail is because I likes that shit. And I'm no simple-minded newb...er, I'm no newber.

TM

Question for Sebby
 

this post is so wrong and based upon such aggressive ignorance that I don't believe a reply can be crafted within the word limits dictated by polite posting.