Toro.. oh Toro!

I'm craving for this wonderful toro from Sapporo! Thinking of the first time I ate sushi - real sushi - not the California roll with the imitation crab... I had my first real sushi in LA, at a  place called "Chiba" in 2006. I got hooked to sushi since then... and I will go to the same sushi place at least once a week... until 2008.

I'm sure you are wondering what happened???

I went with Dave that night. Just 2 of us... sitting at the counter, served by the owner... Shiggy. Trust me, he is a good sushi chef, but at times he has some issues respecting his customers. And at times, he pick and choose who he would treat nicely, and who he would jeer when the customer is not looking! A bit of an ass I shall say... (at times though)

To cut the story short, I ordered one of my favorite rolls there, the crunchy shrimp... and the chef sent out something different from what I usually get. I told the chef, hey, this is not what I ordered... and he looked at me and said (almost yelled), you don't know what you ordered! Hmmm... excuse me, I've been there for years... every week, and he said I don't know what I ordered! By then he got a bit rude and saying things like, I don't know what I'm talking about... and what he made was exactly what I ordered. He also said that he knows how to make good sushi and I don't know what good sushi is.... hhmmmm... BTW it is nothing to do whether the sushi is good or not... it was simply... not what I want! And, if I do not know what good sushi is, I won't be coming back again and again to his place. Unless what he was trying to say that his sushi is bad... hhehehehe

Since that day, I never went back there.