After writing an essay for the greater part of the day, I was getting a little stir-crazy. For dinner I decided to go to YO! Sushi down the street, since I estimated that Jesse wouldn’t quite be up for that. He was at Stone Henge anyway, so I took off to the Bismark Centre, which was like an outdoor mall, or four mini-malls arranged in a square around a courtyard.
YO! Sushi requires some explanation. Upon entering, I was greeted and shown to a seat where everything was explained. In the middle of the room, chefs/preparers placed color-coded dishes onto a conveyer belt. On the other side of the conveyer belt were the seated customers who would grab dishes as they passed by. Five colors corresponded to different prices ranging from 1.70 to 6.00 pounds.
Each seat had every amenity you could really want at a sushi place. There were napkins, soy sauce, and wasabi along with a jar of shredded ginger. There were plenty of chopsticks and most impressively, both a distilled and sparkling water tap right at the seat.
I was handed a menu, since the color-coded bowls were unmarked, it was impossible to know what exactly kind of sushi was on each one. As the pieces fly past you, you remember what it kind of looked like along with the color bowl, and flip through the menu hoping the picture looks like the conveyer belt counterpart.
The first one I grabbed looked like a good one to me – two large rolls of sushi. I looked them up after snatching it up to find out what it was before eating it - some chicken thing. Then I began to study the menu to pick what I wanted to eat next. I grabbed the octopus – It was real good. Soft and chewy (obviously) but it was almost refreshing. Not at all fishy. I got some of the tamago-sushi – a yolk-based topping on rice, and a special shredded duck roll (I cannot get enough duck!) For desert, I ate a custard-filled Japanese pancake with raspberry dipping sauce.
The meal was fantastic and fun to pick and eat, but it wound up being very expensive. It’s not too filling, but perhaps because it was my first time I didn’t know which foods to get to maximize my meal. They also charged for that water spigot at each seat, which seemed odd to me…
