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Mar. 6th, 2009 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I've already gone back to Matsu to try their lunch special. I just had to know if a) the good dinner I had was a fluke; b) if the lunch would be worth going to more often; and c) they had any good sushi rolls, which seems to be what ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corianderstem prefers.
The lunch special itself was great. For $9.50 I got:
- sunomono (appetizer of vinegared cucumer)
- salad
- miso soup
- rice
- tempura (about half the size of the dinner portion)
- chicken teriyaki
- 3 pieces of California roll
- 3 pieces of nigiri (tuna, salmon, and albacore)
The portions weren't huge (though the sushi pieces were regular sized, pretty generous), but all together it was very filling and yummy. It also revealed to me that their dinners are reasonably priced -- you do pay more, but you get quite a bit more as well. Usually at restaurants dinner costs a lot more but you don't actually GET that much more (I Love Sushi comes to mind). They have a lunch version of the dinner combination I got the other night, but costs $13 as opposed to $20. I'm curious to see how different it is.
As for rolls, they don't have as big a selection as I'm used to seeing. They're fairly simple -- no rainbow roll, no Seattle roll, no caterpillar roll, etc. However, their prices also seem extremely reasonable for them (not having actually ordered any, I can't confirm size or taste).corianderstem, I've noticed you prefer rolls so I don't know if this place would actually appeal to you. At the bottom of this page is a list of their rolls -- there aren't prices listed but my quick glance of the menu was that they ran from $4.50 to $6.50.
The cake I'm planning to bring to the barbecue tomorrow is supposed to be a sweet potato pound cake, but I'm going to substitute the sweet potato with pumpkin -- I don't like sweet potatoes and don't feel like roasting my own, and pumpkin has a similar texture and is available canned. It's iffy not just to bring a dessert I've never made before, but also one where I'm making my own untested substitutions ... I must be crazy.
I watched the Pilot of "Lie to Me" on Hulu; it seems fairly interesting (even though I'm indifferent about Tim Roth). Other than some of the conclusions seeming forced/contrived, the episode was decent and the premise is basically just a more specific twist on tried-and-true profiling. (In other words, pffft, Mulder perfected this stuff years ago.)
I don't think I've mentioned this before, but a couple of weeks ago my mom was stricken with Bell's Palsy, which left half of her face paralyzed. It's not a life-threatening issue, though obviously it's hugely inconvenient and worrisome to not be able to control some part of your body (it's difficult to eat, smile, talk, etc., and a little girl stared at her because her face looked so, well, strange -- I felt SO bad for her when she was telling me about it). They don't know what causes it -- the diagnosis is basically made through a process of elimination -- and 85% of people fully recover within 4-6 weeks. (If you look it up on Wikipedia, you'll see a whole list of celebrities who have suffered from the same thing -- unfortunately it seems that it's fairly "common.") Up until a couple of days ago, however, there had been no change in her condition, which was a little disheartening. But I got an email from my dad today saying that her condition has improved to the point where it's barely noticeable. So yay!
corianderstem prefers. The lunch special itself was great. For $9.50 I got:
- sunomono (appetizer of vinegared cucumer)
- salad
- miso soup
- rice
- tempura (about half the size of the dinner portion)
- chicken teriyaki
- 3 pieces of California roll
- 3 pieces of nigiri (tuna, salmon, and albacore)
The portions weren't huge (though the sushi pieces were regular sized, pretty generous), but all together it was very filling and yummy. It also revealed to me that their dinners are reasonably priced -- you do pay more, but you get quite a bit more as well. Usually at restaurants dinner costs a lot more but you don't actually GET that much more (I Love Sushi comes to mind). They have a lunch version of the dinner combination I got the other night, but costs $13 as opposed to $20. I'm curious to see how different it is.
As for rolls, they don't have as big a selection as I'm used to seeing. They're fairly simple -- no rainbow roll, no Seattle roll, no caterpillar roll, etc. However, their prices also seem extremely reasonable for them (not having actually ordered any, I can't confirm size or taste).
corianderstem, I've noticed you prefer rolls so I don't know if this place would actually appeal to you. At the bottom of this page is a list of their rolls -- there aren't prices listed but my quick glance of the menu was that they ran from $4.50 to $6.50.The cake I'm planning to bring to the barbecue tomorrow is supposed to be a sweet potato pound cake, but I'm going to substitute the sweet potato with pumpkin -- I don't like sweet potatoes and don't feel like roasting my own, and pumpkin has a similar texture and is available canned. It's iffy not just to bring a dessert I've never made before, but also one where I'm making my own untested substitutions ... I must be crazy.
I watched the Pilot of "Lie to Me" on Hulu; it seems fairly interesting (even though I'm indifferent about Tim Roth). Other than some of the conclusions seeming forced/contrived, the episode was decent and the premise is basically just a more specific twist on tried-and-true profiling. (In other words, pffft, Mulder perfected this stuff years ago.)
I don't think I've mentioned this before, but a couple of weeks ago my mom was stricken with Bell's Palsy, which left half of her face paralyzed. It's not a life-threatening issue, though obviously it's hugely inconvenient and worrisome to not be able to control some part of your body (it's difficult to eat, smile, talk, etc., and a little girl stared at her because her face looked so, well, strange -- I felt SO bad for her when she was telling me about it). They don't know what causes it -- the diagnosis is basically made through a process of elimination -- and 85% of people fully recover within 4-6 weeks. (If you look it up on Wikipedia, you'll see a whole list of celebrities who have suffered from the same thing -- unfortunately it seems that it's fairly "common.") Up until a couple of days ago, however, there had been no change in her condition, which was a little disheartening. But I got an email from my dad today saying that her condition has improved to the point where it's barely noticeable. So yay!
