I’ve been a bit under the weather lately. Soreish throat, sniffles, fever… basically the onset of a flu. All those horrible fluish symptoms to make me feel all URGH but nothing very bad…
Nothing till friday when I woke up feeling dead, took MC and literally slept the day away. Between yesterday and today I must have slept 20 hours. And I didn’t even wake up with that groggy ‘I want too die because I slept too much’ feeling that I usually get if I take naps. This illness is evil…
Finding food which is good for my throat but palatable at the same time is seriously damn difficult. I’ve eaten fishball soup macaroni, sliced fish soup with rice, porridge aaaaand a CALIFORNIA HANDROLL.
I maintain that the handroll is permissible under the ‘Persons with flu who cannot for the life of them taste anything’ guidelines. And that handroll (consumed for dinner on terrible thursday) made my miserable day all better with its fresh, lightly vinegared short grained rice, cold and freshish crab stick, buttery velvet avocado, crunchy cucumber and mildly sweet tamago egg.
Delish!
The fact that it came from my favouritest jap chain of all time made it all the better!
I am having this thing for iciban boshi (and ichiban sushi, it’s heartland (less glam) sibling). I maintain that the food there is fresher, nicer and more value for money as compared to sakae sushi (not as fresh, boring spread) and sushi teh (there is nothing i like there and it’s fricking ex for the amt of food). Almost everytime I’m there I have to eat their ichiban don, the salmon sashimi rice bowl, drizzled with sesame oil + other yummy drippings, cut red chilli and spring onions.
My mouth is watering just thinking abt it. It’s the rice that makes it so yum! I love the blend of vinegar and deliciousness which is the rice and who can say no to salmon sashimi? (Unless you detest the feel of raw fish which unfortunately my stupid other half does).
Another must have is the crispy lobster salad roll. OMG…. it is sooo good. Whenever us 3 girls get together at ichiban boshi for stuffing our faces + yakking session, we usually end up eating at least 5 plates of this yumminess. They fry a log of seaweed wrapped rice and cut them up into slices. Then they add this amazing ‘lobster’ salad which is made of prawn, mayo, bits of roe and a dab of wasabi. Seriously omgwtfbbq.
I have no idea how an entry about nothing morphed into this food explosion. Maybe I’m just hungry after a week of healthy and bland. It’s my subconsious telling me that it wants jap food again though I had eaten there just last monday. Bad subsconsious!