Japanese food in Thailand
Since Thailand has so many Japanese tourists, I was curious to see how the Japanese food measured up. There was actually a lot of options, and they were all inexpensive. I picked a place that did not look too fancy at all. The really interesting feature of the space though, was that there was only seating at the sushi bar, and only about six seats. For the six seats, there was three waitstaff and the itamae.
The sushi was really excellent. Not among my best sushi experinces, but better than many places I have been in New York. I was not exceptionally hungry so I just ordered a few small items. The menu was overwhelmingly huge. There was a little of a communication barrier, but I was able to get by using English, Japanese and the little bit of Thai I could manage.
Items ordered include hiyashi tomato, shishamo, maguro sashimi, saba sashimi and amaebi nigiri. I was trying to get them to serve me the amaebi head fried but they gave it to me still atached to the shrimp. I was a little unprepared for that actually. The hiyashi tomato was so fresh and cold. It was sublime! My first instinct was to ask for kewpie, which is my favorite way to eat hiyashi tomoato. I just ate it with the sea salt provided, and it was perfect.
One thing I liked was that they used leafy greens in the presentation. They obviously did not want to use shiso, which is fine, it’s not cheap. It eats me up when sushi restaurants use plastic to divide items! I feel like it’s fast food, and I have seen that at nice places too!
i don’t understand the cold tomato dish (i also never seen it at japanese restaurants). and aren’t tomatoes suppose to be best if they never drop below 50F.
@Lina: You can get it in New York, I have had it at a few places here. The restaurant Go on St. Marks does it, but only in the summer when the yattai is open.
Honestly hiyashi tomato is one of the most refreshing things I have ever eaten. This is purely speculation, but I wonder if the dropping below 50F referrs to growing them, and not serving them.
As soon as winter is over lets go get some.
Hey, John. I really really want this person, Lina to try what we know. Please do what you can do to make this person say (it shouldn’t be very difficult)
“WOW !”
@Tashin: Hahaha, no problems! Lina and I are friends (we met through food blogging actually!) so I will make sure she tries hiyashi tomato!
by next summer i’ll definitely be on the look out for it
Hmm can i ask you where is this sushi bar? I want to go there and try i really love japanese food.
I don’t remember the name of the restaurant, or the street, but I know it’s one or two blocks up from the patpong night market towards the BTS. It’s on a street that is all restaurants.
omg that tuna and pad thai looks amazing!! my mouth is watery….