he ma sushi

Hong Kong is a place of food. If you eat at one place, you immediately see a lot more places you want to eat at. Such happened to us, after eating at Tamae Sushi. We decided to eat at Tamae, instead of Komenya, sushi because there was not a line of about fifty people there. Mistake number one, (there will be plenty more to come), filling out the Take-out menu. The menu outside was the classic sushi check mark list, so we checked the ones we wanted. Twenty minutes after we finished, we asked a waiter to take our order. He said that we had filled out the wrong one. So we filled out the other one. Twenty minutes after filling that one out, we got the waiter to finally come into our secluded little corridor, and take our order. Mistake number two, figuring out what was what on the table. We immediately knew that the soy sauce was soy sauce. Wasabi was a little different. I took the lid of the small chopstick container like-container, put my nose as close as I could get, and inhaled very strongly, sharply, and deeply. I spent the next thirty seconds coughing up the dead. Mistake number three, reaching for the water the restaurant gave us. Most of the food places give their customers water just out of the boiling pot. So as I reached for it, I had the idea that I was doing something wrong. I spent the next thirty seconds sucking my fingers. Then the hand rolls came. These are just loads of rice with some salmon or corn or egg on top. So no problem there, you just bite it. Then the actual rolls came. There was tuna, a roll with some sort of avocado, some mayonnaise covered rolls, and a pair of massive rolls just waiting to be stuck in a mouth. So we start munching on these sushi rolls, some sashimi comes, and still the massive rolls wait patiently. Mistake number four, trying to eat one of those rolls like I would normally. With a huge blob of food in your mouth, it is quite hard to chew. It is also very difficult to keep your mouth closed. And if your tongue is persuaded to help that piece of salmon attack your gag point, it is even harder. And if you are trying to savor the blob, it is even harder. And if your mouth does not have the extensive properties of a large mouth bass, it is even harder. However, doing all the even harder things, I succeeded in, one, not throwing up, two, not letting a grain of rice escape my mouth, three, savoring the sushi, four, swallowing, and five, actually enjoying the sushi. Then, as I walked out of the place, I wondered if the Neon tetras, crabs, turtles, carp, koi, goldfish, and more at the fish market were ever to be eaten in sushi. I doubted it.