Fish Smile

I ate this Toro (Tuna Belly) Nigiri at Tokyo Go Go last night after Tai Chi with Leila. I can't get it out of my mind. Buttery smooth rich delicious melty goodness. I've had toro a few times now and remember it being good, but not making-out-with-dinner good. You know that feeling when you first kiss someone and it's just awesome? You feel a little dizzy afterwards and can't stop thinking about it? That's what it was like. At $10.50 for 2 pieces it's not something you'd want to order a dinner's worth of, but as a last bite it's fantastic. I can't tell if my palate is becoming more sophisticated or whether it really was that much better. I'll have to visit Ebisu again before I leave and compare. I don't think I've had their toro yet.

I've been thinking about food all day. Audrey asked if I'd like to go out for lunch and a flood of various cuisines raced through my mind. Cambodian! Dim sum! Thai! Indian! Aaaaaahhhhhh I'm so hungry. I've got a strawberry rhubarb pie from Ikeda sitting in my freezer mocking me. The chicken pot pie from there was excellent for lunch yesterday. I made it in the toaster oven at work and for an hour tortured the poor intern working directly in front of the kitchen.

I guess I should have some sort of good-bye thing, people keep asking me about it. Right now I'm thinking August 1st is the best day for it. A lot of people will be gone next week and over the FnF weekend and doing it THIS weekend seems a little anticlimactic. So, Tuesday August 1st, dinner somewhere. No big party (except for FnF of course!), I am much too lazy for that sort of thing. Somehow I've got to find a place my broke-ass housemates will want to go to. Maybe some sort of shared dining experience like Ethiopian or Middle Eastern.