{"id":565,"date":"2008-03-13T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=565"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:26:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:26:17","slug":"the-best-sushi-i-have-ever-eaten-in-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/13\/the-best-sushi-i-have-ever-eaten-in-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Sushi I Have Ever Eaten In My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Even though I have been going to Japan (every other year or so) since I was 15 I have never been to Tsukiji Fish Market<\/a> – even though everyone tells me I must go take a look (c’mon – what’s the excitement over waking up at 4:00am to go see people buy\/sell fish? Especially when you are IN THE WAY of them doing business, while bothering them by taking pictures and walking slowing through their narrow hallways). My brother and I finally made it there, but just a bit late (got there at around 11:00am, when most of the fish stands have already closed for the day). For those who are still interested to check Tsukiji Fish Market out click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The REAL reason why I am writing this post is for Sushi Yamasaki. I should note that while I was reading my copy of the March 2008 issue of GQ on the flight to Tokyo I read this article by Alan Richman<\/a>, who said that the best oo-toro (fatty tuna) in Japan is found at Sushi Dai at the Tsukiji Market. I told my brother about the article and we decided to go check it out…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we walked to Sushi Dai we instantly noticed a stupid-as-heck line that is longer than a Hanna Montana concert pre-sale ticket line. While we stood in line I realized that almost everyone in line was a tourist – Korean, Chinese, American (one even had the issue of GQ in hand), and Japanese tourists from out-of-town – everyone had a copy of some tourist guide… that’s when I realized that SUSHI DAI IS NOT WORTH WAITING AN HOUR FOR, and got out of the queue…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With my newfound task of finding an alternate restaurant, I had one criterion – the LOCALS MUST LOVE IT – I didn’t travel thousands of miles just to eat at a tourist trap! We did a full circle around Tsukiji only to come back to Sushi Dai, but noticed a Tsukiji employee (they have uniforms and badges) taking some suit-wearing men into a smaller restaurant next door called Sushi Yamasaki (\u5bff\u53f8\u51e6 \u3084\u307e\u3056\u304d<\/strong>\u0081\u008d) – this only meant ONE THING – not only is this place good enough for the local fish market employees, it is also good enough to bring *their* clients to! Once we realized that we queued up in line (3 people in front of us instead of the 40+ at Sushi Dai) and I HAD THE BEST CHU-TORO (medium-fatty tuna) AND UNI (sea urchin) I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE SO FAR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who would like to check Yamasaki out<\/a> – here is the address<\/a> \ud83d\ude09 Although they have set menus (good for those who don’t speak Japanese), I would recommend finding a friend who can translate and order a la carte. You won’t regret it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even though I have been going to Japan (every other year or so) since I was 15 I have never been to Tsukiji Fish Market – even though everyone tells me I must go take a look (c’mon – what’s the excitement over waking up at 4:00am to go see people buy\/sell fish? Especially when you are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-90.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}