Sushi

Janie and I have been wanting to try sushi sometime. I am not sure why. Maybe all the Hype about it and all the praise that it gets. For one of our afternoon dates we decided to head out and try some. We picked up our trusty "City Weekly - Best Of" and found Takashi which has been voted best sushi in salt lake for the past 4 years. Must be the best Salt Lake has to offer so we drove down to market street to try it out. We sit down and stumble across the menu. Soon our waiter comes over and we tell him we are rookie sushi eaters and asks if he recommends anything for the beginner. He is of little help and says everything is good. So I end up choosing a combination plate that has salmon, tuna, octopus, and a couple other types of fish. Luckily Janie chooses a teriyaki chicken plate that includes some sushi on the side. I am not sure why I thought I might enjoy sushi. I am not even a sea food type of person. I have seen some types of sushi that comes wrapped in a cucumber or something of the sorts filled with the fish and some rice of some other sorts. That looked appealing to me. The sushi i got was strips of fish wound up on my plate. I took one bite of each and had plenty of water to wash it down. Janie loves sea food and she couldn't eat it either. I blame our waiter mostly for this as he never gave any indication on what we might try out or even explain the different types to us. When we were walking out of the restaurant there was another waiter describing in great detail their sushi plates and recommending different types that sounded delicious. We are open to trying it again so if any family or friends out there are sushi experts let us know and we would love to try it again.
I ask if any of my family might be sushi eaters. While some of you sweet siblings may be sushi eaters it would surprise me. Lynn, maybe from his time in the Philippines which I am not sure of but I think he could tell you what dog tastes like. Growing up, going out to eat with my family entailed heading out to Dee's for their .25 cent hamburgers. How can you go wrong with .25 cent hamburgers? Feed the whole family for a Buck Fifty. Whats even better? Free RC Willey hot dogs on Saturday. Now you cant beat that. Also a favorite was a hot dog from Reams. I used to love going in there and seeing the largest pants in the world hanging from that dome ceiling.
The point to my tangent is that growing up my family did not exactly venture out to new and different styles of food. I can still remember being in high school and going to a Chinese restaurant for the first time. At the Remund household we just kept it simple. Breaded chicken, toast with gravy on it, make your own tortilla pizza's, chicken and rice and the dreaded Shepard's pie with ground beef, string beans, topped with mashed potato and cheese. Who the hell came up with that combination and why did we eat it bi-weekly?