Comments on: Sato’s, how to NOT run a restaurant!

By: barry

barry — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:40:20 +0000

A good way to tell if the food is close to what it is like “back home” (this goes for anything) is if you see lots of people who are from the same culture that food comes from. My favorite Japanese place is like that. It’s not fancy, but it is nice, and the food is good. A large group of Japanese seniors go there. A place like Beni Hana has very few Japanese people going since the food is nothing like authentic Japanese.

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By: Redbelt

Redbelt — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:07:20 +0000

Go to “Kie” in Golden Tulip (ex Hilton)
Its been there for ages and is excellant. Most of the Japanese in Bahrain dine there frequently, must be close to authentic if not is.
I reccomend it.

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By: mahmood

mahmood — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:29:38 +0000

I think I’ll try others first and maybe start with Mirai… I am really hesitant to consider Sato’s again after they ruined the experience for me on this occasion.

Let me tell you something, I asked them to prepare a cake so we can present to Amna after dinner, their response is essentially “bring your own”! I kid you not. Now there’s customer service for you!

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By: Kazarr

Kazarr — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:12:10 +0000

Hi Mahmood,

sorry to hear about your experience, especially on this special day.

I went two times the last two months to Sato’s and it was very good.

We only went for the Teppenyaki(?) “Live” show and we had a lot of fun.

I even managed to catch the piece of egg the “performer” chef was throwing at each of us.

So maybe do as the guys in the story above and check back at a later time and give it another try?

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By: jojo

jojo — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:08:42 +0000

Mirai Mirai Mirai!
Definitely need to go there next time.

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By: Hani

Hani — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:32:54 +0000

Sushi? I can eat that morning, noon and night! Give me a stack of tuna nigiri, soft-shell crab rolls, smoked eel (unagi), spicy salmon rolls and I’m a very happy dude!

PS: Happy Birthday Amna! We’ll bring a Wentworth Miller poster/mug/tee/towel home with us next time we’re over. Unless you want something else?

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By: barry

barry — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:29:07 +0000

Clarification here guys, particularly ammaro.com:

Sushi refers to the rice seasoned with vinegar and sugar, actually. There are a great deal of rolls without any fish at all. Futomaki (big roll) is generally all vegetarian. Kappa maki is cucumber only. You can get sushi with just egg (tamago), or pickled plum (ume, which is very sour and salty, although in the roll it’s more of a seasoning than the main player. Any sushi with shrimp (ebi) or octopus (tako) will be cooked. Unagi rolls always have barbecued eel, which is done teriyaki style.

Sashimi is raw fish and is served without rice. You can also get nigiri-zushi, which is a piece of fish, shrimp, or other seafood served on top of an oblong piece of sushi rice, and sometimes wrapped with a thin band of seaweed. In nigiri-zushi the fish is raw, and much bigger than in sushi rolls (such as tekka maki which has a sliver of raw tuna). There is also a type of sushi which appeals to most picky eaters, inari-zushi, which is sweet fried tofu pouches filled with sushi rice.

So, sushi is not just raw fish (which was the common misconception in the US before sushi turned trendy and then commonplace).

What I find interesting is, aside from the seaweed, everything in sushi is usually very mild in flavor compared to heavily spiced dishes from India or Thailand (though, the Japanese do like curry rice and eat a lot of it, I hear).

Ibn:

The seaweed in sushi is a species of alga which grows close to the surface (Porphyra genus). In commercial operations, it is farmed by growing it on nets suspended at the sea surface. The alga grows naturally on rocks at the zone which is exposed at low tide, but covered at high tide.

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By: Mavis

Mavis — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:26:00 +0000

Thanks Barry for the correction.

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By: barry

barry — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:18:07 +0000

Mavis: California Rolls are crab (or imitation crab) with avocado rolled in sushi rice (I mentioned this in a previous reply here). You can get reversed California rolls where the nori (seaweed) is on the inside with the rice outside, and also rolled in tobiko (Flying fish roe, which look like fine reddish orange grains).

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By: Anonny

Anonny — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:24:42 +0000

sushi is more of an acquired taste, i guess. i dont really like it, neither would i want to. if i wanted uncooked fish, ill jump into the ocean.

I got pretty close to that in Hawaii
once. Damn that sashimi was fresh!

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