when ever i eat at japanese restaurants, i like to maximize my experience each and every time. so the other night i was watching the best sushi chef in hawaii make me a take out futomaki sushi. step by step, breath by breath. omg! it was art!!!
look at this!!! amazing!
the biggest and best handmade futomaki sushi i’ve ever eaten!
it was always one of my dreams to become a sushi chef. even though i don’t practice now, i’m mentally creating sushi in my head. and if i ever become a sushi chef, i want to catch my own seafood, then prepare it step by step. and that is the very reason why i like to sit on the counter in sushi bars, and that’s the very reason why i ask a hundred questions. all this information is getting inputed into my brain. yes, i could probably forget your name, but i will never forget the taste of excellent sushi. haha.
so i go spear some expensive fish today. it’s called Uku and a very hard fish to spear. super smart but i finally figured out the technique. you just can’t look them in the eye! if you do, they won’t come close. so i drop 50′ and look the other way, then i can feel it coming close. i take a side eye peak, and there it was. bam! dinner tonight! next one, same thing! bam! dinner tomorrow night!
here is what Uku is. you will only find this fish in expensive 5 star restaurants here in hawaii.
BLUE-GREEN SNAPPER (UKU) Uku is commonly known as the Hawaii blue-green snapper. This fish shares many of the same qualities that have given opakapaka and onaga their reputations as outstanding table fish.
