Sushi

The other week I got to see The Debt. It was just as I thought it would be. I went with two other people, one said it was boring, the other had no strong opinion about it.

Before we went to the movie, we decided to try Sushi San. I've been wanting to try it ever since I saw it, since it has a highly visible street location on Kapiolani. Their carousel is quite impressive. Sushi traveling both ways.

We went for lunch only to be surprised that they only do a buffet style lunch that cost $16.99. I think I usually have 3-4 plates for lunch, so average cost would be around $2.75 which means about $11 for lunch. So when I heard $16.99 I was hesitant about staying, come on we know that means $17 just looks better with the 16 than the 17. The hostess when we entered was nice and explained the change of a buffet style. But the host was sort of pushy and explained it all again. I asked for a minute to decide. The guy took it to mean a minute because he was back trying to convince us to stay. Showing us a menu saying we could order the top part for free. Um really? You want us to pay $17 per person and then say we are ordering stuff for free??? I was one foot out the door, but was reminded that we wanted to eat before the movie, so time had to be considered.

Since the two other people I was with didn't care either way, we decided to try it out. We spent most of the time trying to guess what was on the conveyor belt. Since the chefs do 'creative sushi', yes not my words but the words of the host. Many were covered with multiple sauces, to name a few, sweet chili, the sauce they place on the unagi, a yellow sauce- assume it was mustard, etc.

First thing I grabbed was a shrimp tempura, to my surprise it was good. We ordered a couple things that were on the "free" made to order menu. I wanted to try the salmon. I think spicy tuna and a poke don(hot, meaning served in a hot stone bowl) was ordered and a couple other things. Let's just say I didn't not eat another salmon plate. I tried another shrimp tempura, this second one was heavy on the batter, oily and the batter toward the shrimp seemed a little under cooked. The scallop mayo was bitter and the scallops tasted a bit old, but it is rare to find a place that the scallops are sweet and how they should be. I was actually thinking of trying the hotate(located on the +$3 menu, not on the "free" buffet menu) but after the mayo one I decided not to.

The spicy tuna had a different flavor, I forgot what was guessed as the difference. To me it tasted like they mixed sweet chili sauce in it. I pulled a plate for someone since we were sitting in a booth, I had to eat it since it had a shrimp tempura rolled in it, and the person who asked me to pull it is allergic to shrimp. I wasn't very happy with this since the sushi was drenched in sauces.

I do not know what made me look at the floor under the table, but there were two plastic bug traps. They looked like the black plastic Combat traps. Not to mention the floor looked a little dusty.

I think the best part for me was watching a young girl reach over to the inner belt with two hands/arms, and in the process of picking up a plate dipping her elbow into another plate of spicy tuna. Laughing (the person across from me saw it too) I explained it to the person next to me, at which point it was said "I'm done, let's go." Which just amused me more.

Movie mishap

I found the previews for The Debt to be interesting. So the plan was to watch a Saturday matinee and use a Screen saver, that would make it cost only $7.00. The plan was squashed because the time we picked was 4:35 p.m. and the cut off time for a matinee is 4 p.m. We could not use a GMT because it was still on the list of non-screen saver movies.{Why consolidated Screen savers? I buy mine at Marukai(you don't seem to need a membership, even though I have one) which means I get a booklet of 10 for $70. Marukai charges $0.25 more per savers ticket, but I think if you buy it from consolidated minimum purchase is 100 for $675. A general admission movie ticket ranges from $9- 10.75. I usually go to Ward so that is a difference of $3.75 per ticket. If you go in with four people $3.75 times four is $15! A matinee is $8.50, which would only make it a $1.50 savings, but times that by four again which is $6 and you have almost enough to by another savers ticket. So if you plan on purchasing 10 consolidated tickets and are watching it during matinee times

or watch after the first few weeks of the movie coming out-when it is still on the no pass list-, you might want to consider using some Screen saver tickets.}

Trying to decide which movie to watch instead in the hot humid day was not fun. Most were movies that had not received decent reviews. The other half was movies that were on the no pass list.

After narrowing it down to two movies, it was decided that we would see Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Really not the movies that I would have liked to see. But I was assured that it got high review ratings, and positive comments. The nice thing about seeing something that you have low expectations for, is that the movie has a higher chance of being better than you expected.

Reasons why I did not want to watch Rise of the Planet of the Apes:

In the previews I did not like the creepy eyes of the ape.

Primates attacking people.

Experimental testing on animals.

I don't remember liking the last planet of the ape type movie

I wanted to see The Debt

The eyes were still creepy when I watched it. The violence was still disturbing. The testing and bio-experimentation was still disturbing. I still want to see The Debt.

Some how the whole movie worked. There was rarely a point where it felt like the lull was too long. Or the action scene was overly stretched out. Sure there were things in it that just did not make sense in the connection and of the likely hood of it happening, but you just need to remember it is only a movie.