{SUSHI Adventures...}

Shane and I went on a date yesterday for the first time in MONTHS! About time! :) We were originally going to snorkel, go for a bike ride AND go eat at some japanese restaurant. That had to be cancelled because we aren't allowed in the water right now. We are under a tccor-3...which means a tropical storm is close on its way. We have a website we get on everyday and it tells us the status of the ocean current. It will tell us CAUTION, DANGER, SAFE...depending on the current. It's been danger for a few days. So, we obviously couldn't snorkel. And it pours one minute, sun shines one minute, pours again the next minute. Lots of scattered showers while these tropical storms decide what they want to do. They keep hanging around really close while moving really slow. So, we really didn't want to bike in that. Soooo, what to do instead? We went to YellowBox, which sells Ashley furniture for a great price...something you won't find in the states, thats for sure. We looked around. Spotted a few things we wanted. We decided to wait a couple weeks for the new shipment of the canadian and european furniture. :)

THEN we decided to be ADVENTUROUS. We went to a sushi bar...a revolving sushi bar. You take your seat at a bar and in front of you is a conveyor belt. All different types of sushi make its way on the conveyor belt.... When you see what you want come by then you just grab it off the belt. Each sushi is on a color coded plate. It helps you figure out what it is that you are eating AND the price. Shane and I decided to be adventurous and try Raw squid legs, octopus, and a variety of fish, among them was salmon. Raw fish is better than cooked fish. I like the texture of raw fish much better than the texture of cooked fish. Weird, i know. It all tasted so goood! AND it didn't even taste fishy. I didn't realize there are so many different variations of sushi. I thought all sushi was rolled sushi, wrapped in seaweed. Which is called makizushi(rolled sushi). It's not. There are many different forms of sushi. One other popular one there that we ate a lot of was called nigirizushi, which is a mound of sushi rice which is pressed into a small rectangular box, usually topped with wasabi and a topping placed over it. The topping usually was a small piece of raw fish. Here is a picture of what it was that we ate. I will point out a few things to you that i remember from the sushi bar. The fish at the top of the plate, the all white one, is probably fresh raw squid. It was very white and pretty looking. The stuff to the right of the squid is pickled ginger. That was really good. You can add a piece to your sushi to add some taste and it was GOOD! You can see the sauce up at the top left of the picture. It was like a soy sauce, but tasted a lot better than soy sauce. If you look at the bottom right picture, that is actually egg on sushi rice. I think one of those other fish is a snapper....but i am not sure the others. I will eventually get it down and know all these fish. That's exciting! Here is a picture of one that i didn't try and not sure if i will be able to. It was salmon roe...which is the eggs of salmon. If any of you have tried this, let me know how it tastes. :) I want to be adventurous and try it, but it creeps me out.

Honestly, it made me grossed out a little while eating sushi just KNOWING i was eating RAW fish, even though i did like the taste. I just have to get over the fact that its raw and i will thoroughly enjoy it b/c it really is good. :)

The regular sushi rolls that we tried were stuffed with tuna, crab and avocado. It was okay. I didn't know tuna was in it, but i KNOW the taste of tuna and identified it as soon as i took a bite. :) Tuna isn't a taste i like. The next place we want to eat at is called The Garlic House. They serve sashimi, which i hear is really good. It's just raw fish, served without the sushi rice. You just eat the raw fish, usually with some sauce you can dip it in and also some ginger. They also cook food in front of you. I hear its good.

Anyway, our sushi adventure was AN ADVENTURE. :) i am so glad we did it. And i am ready for round TWO! :)

Here are the squid legs we ate...yum yum! hahaha! Really, it didn't have much taste. It was kind of weird having those chewy legs in my mouth. But it was decent. I really like the octopus a lot better than the squid.

Then we drove around and tried to find a massage place to get a couples massage done. I went into two places to see if we could walk-in. One place doesn't allow men. haha! And at the other place the schedules were full that day. And it was interesting trying to have a conversation with an okinawan ...we just don't understand each other! hahaha! Anyway, i really really wish i knew more japanese. That would be nice. We drove around for awhile trying to find a massage place. :) Oh well. But i do know we can get a full hour body massage for $30 here on base. So, i really need to check into that and do it once a month.