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Dinner at Midori's
Sep. 4th, 2003 07:30 pmWe finally got to Midori's Floating World for dinner. It was, um, different.
I'd stopped in once to have a couple of sushi rolls, which were good, but I wanted to try dinner.
It's probably the only place with 1000 miles that serves spam sushi. I've heard it's very popular in Hawaii.
Instead of the usual koto music, they were playing a very eclectic mix. I didn't hear commercials, so it wasn't radio. The first time I noticed it, right after we ordered, it was the sort of music that if it's playing during a movie, you want to shout, "No! don't do that" to the characters. Really menacing. Later, Martin identified the oldie, "Havin' your baby", never one of my faves.
I had little trouble deciding what to get - a sashimi and sushi combo dinner. Martin, who does not eat raw fish, and can't eat wheat, had more trouble. First he was going to order soba, since he can tolerate buckwheat pretty well. They seemed to be out of soba. He tried to order something else, which turned out to have raw fish, they politely explained. Finally, he ordered seafood tempura.
The service was okay. The miso soup and salad about average for a Japanese restaurant.
My sashimi combo came in a bento box. It ranged from exquisite (the tuna) to a little too authentic (some of the pickles). It included the ubiquitous california roll. I HATE california roll. I don't like avocado, for one thing. And I didn't know they included it; I didn't order a couple of other possibilities because they mentioned california roll on the menu. Otherwise, a lovely dinner.
Martin's tempura was excellent - very light batter, as it should be, and the assortment was interesting - shrimp, scallops, a couple kinds of fish and several kinds of vegetables.
It was an expensive treat. Verdict: good place to go when you have money to spend and feel like eating raw seafood, or maybe cooked seafood. Bad place for people on a tight budget, or who don't like seafood.
I'm still thinking about the wonderful taste and texture of perfect raw tuna and salmon.
I'd stopped in once to have a couple of sushi rolls, which were good, but I wanted to try dinner.
It's probably the only place with 1000 miles that serves spam sushi. I've heard it's very popular in Hawaii.
Instead of the usual koto music, they were playing a very eclectic mix. I didn't hear commercials, so it wasn't radio. The first time I noticed it, right after we ordered, it was the sort of music that if it's playing during a movie, you want to shout, "No! don't do that" to the characters. Really menacing. Later, Martin identified the oldie, "Havin' your baby", never one of my faves.
I had little trouble deciding what to get - a sashimi and sushi combo dinner. Martin, who does not eat raw fish, and can't eat wheat, had more trouble. First he was going to order soba, since he can tolerate buckwheat pretty well. They seemed to be out of soba. He tried to order something else, which turned out to have raw fish, they politely explained. Finally, he ordered seafood tempura.
The service was okay. The miso soup and salad about average for a Japanese restaurant.
My sashimi combo came in a bento box. It ranged from exquisite (the tuna) to a little too authentic (some of the pickles). It included the ubiquitous california roll. I HATE california roll. I don't like avocado, for one thing. And I didn't know they included it; I didn't order a couple of other possibilities because they mentioned california roll on the menu. Otherwise, a lovely dinner.
Martin's tempura was excellent - very light batter, as it should be, and the assortment was interesting - shrimp, scallops, a couple kinds of fish and several kinds of vegetables.
It was an expensive treat. Verdict: good place to go when you have money to spend and feel like eating raw seafood, or maybe cooked seafood. Bad place for people on a tight budget, or who don't like seafood.
I'm still thinking about the wonderful taste and texture of perfect raw tuna and salmon.
