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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Restaurants Sometimes It's Best to Trust Your Instincts

Posted by Nicki Wood on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:57 AM

I wasn't in the mood to go out, but OK. Not in the mood for sushi, but a Japanese place was OK with me. Nothing on the menu was grabbing me, so I took a flyer and ordered sake chazuke, a rice soup with salmon.

The dark bits on the surface are pickles.
  • The dark bits on the surface are pickles.
It could have been so much. Sizzling rice, mild broth, a wedge of crisp-edged teriyaki broiled salmon on top. I couldn't be prepared — not in years of reviewing — for how off-putting the soup was. It was fishy, both the broth and the fish, and loaded with long, hard-to-eat-neatly seaweed shreds.

The final ick factor was ... pickles. Lots and lots of pickled vegetables, including eggplant and either cucumber or zucchini, all through the soup.

It made me wonder how in the world this soup, which is probably a favorite treat in mama's kitchen somewhere in the world but is just so foreign to me, made the cut onto a menu in the Southeast U.S.

And it made me wonder how often anyone orders it.

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Sounds like you were more in the mood for some of those Korean tacos. Hadn't you read the review yet?

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Posted by wls1119 on September 2, 2010 at 1:35 PM

Y'know I'm sure I like stuff that other people couldn't comprehend, but I sure can't think of what that is. Except maybe tempeh.

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Posted by Lesley on September 2, 2010 at 5:40 PM
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