The other evening, after a long day, I wanted to go out by myself for a quick bite. I thought about the brand new Pig & The Pearl (no alcohol) and the new-new Luminary (would have had to fight traffic), but I ended up at a happy place – Sushi Huku for some raw fish treats.
My friend/Chef Jey wasn’t there, as he is super busy preparing to open Craft Izakaya at Krog St Market, but no matter.
The meal capped off with uni nigiri. I usually like my uni gunkan maki style, which is version where the nori is wrapped around the rice, with the fish piled on top. The crunch of the nori with the seafood funk is inimitable.
Variety is great though, and as nigiri the uni gets all mished mashed with the rice as you bite, creamy and luxurious like. I thought this version looked particularly extravagent, piled high into an uni gang bang where you don’t know where one lobe ends and the other begins. It is sort of a sexual dish, eating the reproductive organs of the sea urchin, this deep orange, smallish version flown in from Hokkaido in the north of Japan.
Uni is kinda played out, but in the right hands, it’s still magic. Some people hate it though. Where do you fall on it?
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