On the way home from the exercise at YMCA, I decided to drop by in Marukai (Japanese grocery store). I found pretty good Sashimi (raw fish), so decided to do Temaki Sushi (table sushi you casually roll up yourself) for dinner. The larger tray was $9.98 even with sea urchin, and the smaller one was $7.98. I found other Asian vegetables that go along with sushi for very reasonable prices. What a convenient life with a great access to all kinds of Japanese grocery! Well, but if you live this kind of life, you start to lose the excitement of going back home to Japan every summer. Back in Virginia, we used to be so much looking forward to going home once a year, planning ahead of time what to eat and what to shop once we are in Japan. We used to feel this surge of emotion going through your entire body when we set our feet in one of those big Japanese/Asian grocery stores in DC or NY where we had a luxury to visit only once in a while. Those excitement, those feelings, those emotions, those shivers... are gone for ever now. In exchange for a super convenient life here in Torrance, we might have lost a piece of happiness which we did not even know existed.
10/26/2009
Temaki sushi
On the way home from the exercise at YMCA, I decided to drop by in Marukai (Japanese grocery store). I found pretty good Sashimi (raw fish), so decided to do Temaki Sushi (table sushi you casually roll up yourself) for dinner. The larger tray was $9.98 even with sea urchin, and the smaller one was $7.98. I found other Asian vegetables that go along with sushi for very reasonable prices. What a convenient life with a great access to all kinds of Japanese grocery! Well, but if you live this kind of life, you start to lose the excitement of going back home to Japan every summer. Back in Virginia, we used to be so much looking forward to going home once a year, planning ahead of time what to eat and what to shop once we are in Japan. We used to feel this surge of emotion going through your entire body when we set our feet in one of those big Japanese/Asian grocery stores in DC or NY where we had a luxury to visit only once in a while. Those excitement, those feelings, those emotions, those shivers... are gone for ever now. In exchange for a super convenient life here in Torrance, we might have lost a piece of happiness which we did not even know existed.