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September 26, 2002

Sashimi, or Something Like It

I work at 40th and Lex. I rarely have any need to wander cross-town on 41st for two reasons:

  1. I'm more than likely too lazy to want to wander more than a block away from the office for lunch.
  2. 41st dead-ends at 5th Av., so I generally walk cross-town on 40th or 42nd St.
So, the furthest that I ever really wander up 41st is to the deli with the Mongolian grill near Park Av. until the recent 2 King Supreme for $2 promotion that Burger King held. There's a Burger King at 41st and 5th, you see, but I rarely do fast food burgers for lunch because I'd hate to be that guy that shows his stupidity to the world by having to sue McDonald's for not telling me that burgers weren't healthy.

What does this have to do with fish? Burgers are nothing like it.

Turns out there's a stretch of Japanese restaurants across the street from the Burger King. There's a rather nice restaurant called Maeda that has some of the more exotic fishes I've seen on the East Coast. I'd never seen bonito, sayuri, or aji anywhere other than California or the Pacific Rim. Alas, it was also bloody expensive.

The best find, though, was a Japanese market. It wasn't extensive, but it was stocked enough that I could get the basics and they even had sushi and sashimi grade fish. So last night I scored some and got to chow down on octopus, tuna, red snapper, flying fish roe, and mackerel last night. Wish I could say that it was a classy dinner, but no. I pretty much pulled off the sushi equivalent of a bachelor standing over the sink eating Kraft Dinner. I sat in front of the TV, watched 3/4 of the season premiere of The West Wing and snacked on raw fish all night.

And tonight I had the zaru soba I picked up. I think I can really get to like this place. If only they had a better selection of fish.

Posted by KinCross at September 26, 2002 10:49 PM

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