[Leica] IMG: yum yum, not for Ted? :-)

[gwpics at googlemail.com (Gerry Walden)]

In a previous life as a Port Health Officer I had to adminster the
import and examination of wines and spirits under legislation. Sake
initially caused me a great headache (no pun intended) until I
realised that technically (because of the brewing process) it is, in
fact, a beer!

Gerry

On 15/02/2008, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Richard Man suggested:
>
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: yum yum, not for Ted? :-)
>
> Hi  Richard,
> Now that's my kind of food by the barrel! :-) I eat Japanese as often as I
> can at home or traveling. I even had a great dinner in Moscow awhile back
> where I didn't expect to find a Japanese restaurant.
>
> The bad-good thing was? The price was bad "I'm glad I didn't have to pay 
> the
> bill!" A photo buddy paid. :-)
>
> The good part? The food was wonderfully fresh and I didn't have to pay! :-)
>
> Not many items I've not taken too. However there are two I stay away from.
> Mackerel, always tastes very "fishy!" And Uni, it always feels like a
> mouthful of fine sand.
>
> However, quails egg with Salmon roe is a mind blowing wonderful delicacy!!
> Japanese restaurants can be very relaxing when you sit in a tatami room 
> with
> door shut, quietly eating and conversing without a maddening crowd of
> diners. The food is accompanied  with copious amounts of hot Saki, or in 
> the
> summer I like cold saki served in the small wooden box.
>
> Nothing like an assignment to learn about the foods of other nations you're
> working in.
>
> My first time to eat raw sea food was in Japan in 1968. The eating it was
> determined by the thought. "Well OK eh? 100 million Japanese can't be wrong
> go for it!" And I've never turned away from it since, I just realized 40
> years! WOW, time flies when you're eating well. :-)
>
> Oh yeah and the saki? Wonderful!
>
> So yes it is yum yum for Ted anytime!
>
> ted