Eating fish sushi style

[Johnsfolly]

Kampai,  Sake, and Geisha were our favorite sushi places in Columbia. All are really good with Kampai being far better than the other two. 

The local sushi places out this way are decent. Makes up for the lack of any good Chinese places.

 

[MOPanfisher]

I believe it was Haruno we went to, Sakura is good too.

[Sam]

I love sushi, but I'm not interested in the hi-filutin' kind - no raw fish for me.  There are plenty of real good sushi rolls to suit my, I guess, "American" taste.  They're not authentic Japanese I'm sure, but not gonna give me worms either.

My wife and I really like Ichiban Buffet on the west side of Glenstone just south of Chestnut in Springfield, and we go there for lunch about once a month.  The lunch buffet costs $8 (more at night) and the buffet includes about 40 dishes plus Mongolian BBQ and a salad bar.  Also included is a counter in the west wall where a sushi chef is making and putting out sushi rolls cut into slices. 

Around 8 or 10 varieties of sushi are offered, and they're common Americanized ones like California Roll, Philadelphia Roll, Salmon Roll, Spicy Crab (my favorite), Dragon Roll, etc.  They're all good in my opinion, and they're freshly made.

I usually fill my first buffet plate with sushi then move on to the other dishes, but a person could certainly enjoy an all-sushi buffet if they wanted to.  Many places charge almost $8 for one sushi roll, so I think the same price for all-you-can-eat sushi with lots of variety is a real good deal.

[Flysmallie]

10 hours ago, Sam said:

 

Around 8 or 10 varieties of sushi are offered, and they're common Americanized ones like California Roll, Philadelphia Roll, Salmon Roll, Spicy Crab (my favorite), Dragon Roll, etc.  They're all good in my opinion, and they're freshly made.

I can eat as many California Rolls as you can put in front of me. Used to be a spot on north Glenstone with a drive thru. That place had great sushi. 

[Sam]

My wife and I ate lunch at Ichiban Buffet in Springfield again today, and it was excellent.  For the first time ever, we got there right at 11 a.m., their opening time.  The restaurant was getting full about the time we were done eating, but at first we had it almost to ourselves.  All the buffet dishes had just been put out and the sushi chef was just finishing eight different kinds of fresh sushi rolls.  I devoted my first buffet plate to all-sushi and got 2 pieces from each roll (burp).

We're going to hit that place right at 11 a.m. in the future, as that worked out so well.  The sushi and all the buffet dishes we tried were great and I found a new personal favorite - General Tso Chicken.  I dunno who the general was, but apparently he had real good taste!

[Quillback]

6 hours ago, Sam said:

My wife and I ate lunch at Ichiban Buffet in Springfield again today, and it was excellent.  For the first time ever, we got there right at 11 a.m., their opening time.  The restaurant was getting full about the time we were done eating, but at first we had it almost to ourselves.  All the buffet dishes had just been put out and the sushi chef was just finishing eight different kinds of fresh sushi rolls.  I devoted my first buffet plate to all-sushi and got 2 pieces from each roll (burp).

We're going to hit that place right at 11 a.m. in the future, as that worked out so well.  The sushi and all the buffet dishes we tried were great and I found a new personal favorite - General Tso Chicken.  I dunno who the general was, but apparently he had real good taste!

Safeway grocery stores in the Seattle area had prepared Chinese food in the deli area.  Believe it or not, they had the best General Tso's chicken I have ever had.  Little Chinese take out joint down the road from me has decent General's Chicken, but still have yet to find an equal to Safeway.  Next time I am up in Springfield I'll have to try Ichiban.

[Mitch f]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

Safeway grocery stores in the Seattle area had prepared Chinese food in the deli area.  Believe it or not, they had the best General Tso's chicken I have ever had.  Little Chinese take out joint down the road from me has decent General's Chicken, but still have yet to find an equal to Safeway.  Next time I am up in Springfield I'll have to try Ichiban.

We have a Restaurant that caters to Wash U students in St.Louis (a lot of Wash U students are Chinese) it’s called Corner 17…excellent Chinese food. 

[Johnsfolly]

2 hours ago, Quillback said:

Believe it or not, they had the best General Tso's chicken I have ever had. 

I used to use that dish and their fried dumplings as a gauge of how good of a restaurant it was going to be.

 

39 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

We have a Restaurant that caters to Wash U students in St.Louis (a lot of Wash U students are Chinese) it’s called Corner 17…excellent Chinese food.

I'm dying to find just a really good chinese restaurant out this way. I'm sure if I headed into Baltimore or around DC that there are some, just don't like to deal with that traffic and tolls. PF Changs in Annapolis is probably the best and that is just standard chain restaurant food.

ABC Cuisine restaurant out in Columbia - was the most authentic and served absolutely delicious food. It was sold after a burglar died in the kitchen a few years ago. It became a Korean place and now even that has closed 😒. So we can't even go back there when we are in MO.

[FishnDave]

On 6/30/2021 at 8:31 AM, curtisce said:

4 pages in this thread and I haven't read anyonne who has eaten anything that they or someone they know has caught. 

 

On 6/28/2021 at 9:15 PM, FishnDave said:

  I've had fresh-caught Skipjack Tuna cut up for sashimi....SO GOOD!

I caught the Skipjack Tuna.  Our friends that live on Maui cut it up in their back yard for us. Very mild, very dark red meat...almost purple.

[Mitch f]

40 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

ABC Cuisine restaurant out in Columbia - was the most authentic and served absolutely delicious food. 

Trivia for you…what does ABC stand for when referring to Chinese?