I like the sushi cos it's never touched a frying pan
Yesterday, in a sushi restaurant, I observed that one could get a sushi roll containing "Cooked Gurds". Using the sort of lateral thinking required on typo-ridden menus, I decided they probably meant "gourds", and that it would be some sort of squash. Which sounded interesting.
I ordered one: "a sushi roll with gourds, please". "Cooked gurds?" enquired the waitress, pointing to the menu. She pronounced it as "cook-ed". I agreed. I wouldn't want raw squash, after all.
Food began arriving. A small board with six maki sitting neatly on it landed. It looked like fish; I ruled it to be part of ChrisC's sushi set, and he ate it (well, except for the bits I filched). I'm pretty sure it was fish - and raw fish at that.
Then ChrisC's sushi set arrived... with its own roll in tow. Nothing else showed up.
We therefore deduced that whatever the first roll was had been my cook-ed gurds. Does anyone have the first idea what cook-ed gurds might be ? Did, in fact, completely the wrong thing show up, but we failed to realise ? A quick google has not proved helpful.
(In other respects I was quite impressed with the food served by the extraordinarily busy Café Japan. My set meal - a big pile of four kinds of sashimi, miso soup, rice, salad, a tofu startery thing and some pickles - seemed like pretty good value at £12.)
I ordered one: "a sushi roll with gourds, please". "Cooked gurds?" enquired the waitress, pointing to the menu. She pronounced it as "cook-ed". I agreed. I wouldn't want raw squash, after all.
Food began arriving. A small board with six maki sitting neatly on it landed. It looked like fish; I ruled it to be part of ChrisC's sushi set, and he ate it (well, except for the bits I filched). I'm pretty sure it was fish - and raw fish at that.
Then ChrisC's sushi set arrived... with its own roll in tow. Nothing else showed up.
We therefore deduced that whatever the first roll was had been my cook-ed gurds. Does anyone have the first idea what cook-ed gurds might be ? Did, in fact, completely the wrong thing show up, but we failed to realise ? A quick google has not proved helpful.
(In other respects I was quite impressed with the food served by the extraordinarily busy Café Japan. My set meal - a big pile of four kinds of sashimi, miso soup, rice, salad, a tofu startery thing and some pickles - seemed like pretty good value at £12.)