Friday, 10 January 2014

Foodie Adventures: Itacho Sushi

Hello everybody!!
I'm so tired after a late night and a night out with my dear friend today.
But, I felt that it's time to blog about the long overdue food trip!

If you follow me on instagram, you'll know how much I love Japanese food, especially sushi and sashimi. So, during finals period (end Nov - start Dec), I was busy mugging, and I stuck to my regular meals of oatmeal for lunch and only veggies for dinner.

I was glad that I was losing weight, but I missed eating good food.
So I merely told Jun Kai that I was craving for sushi and asked if he was in the next day (a Saturday) so he could drop me off to get some sushi.
I was only thinking of getting some from Cold Storage.

Then, a few minutes later, he came back and asked if I wanted to head out and eat together, somewhat of a lunch + dinner.
And so we did!

We headed over to Itacho Sushi at Star Vista and boy was it good!


Shrimp sushi
This was delicious! The shrimp was fresh and sweet.
Yummms



Favourite food!
I ate two plates of it
*beams*



Spring roll (mango sauce/spicy)
This was the first time I've tried this and it was DELICIOUS.
NO JOKE.
The sauce makes the entire dish yummy, but it's probably quite fattening too hahaha.



Grilled pork and spicy shrimp
I've never really had grilled pork sushi, so I tried it, and it's so juicy.
You should try it at least once man!



Cream croquette which is a must have when you go to Japanese restaurants
Soft shell crab which is also one of my favourites because I love seafood hehehe.

Grilled tuna, smoked duck, squid sushi in the background too!
Pardon me, I was too excited to eat, so I was lazy to take individual shots hehehe.



Up close of the smoked duck sushi, and it is so juicy!
Can you see the oil? Fattening yes, but it was so damn good.
One of the must tries in my opinion.



Sweet potato coated with caramel.
I was pretty disappointed when this came.
I thought it would be baked sweet potato, which is the classic one.
But it came as this.
The caramel was so sweet that it over powered the taste of the sweet potato.
:(


Crab meat chawanmushi!
Also one of the must-order dish when you go to the Japanese restaurant!
Nyahahaha.
I always like to choose the crab meat chawanmushi over the original one.
Expensive taste, like my mum always says.



Grilled salmon sushi
I love half cooked salmon as much as the raw ones.
These were very nice!
The fish was evenly cooked and it looked pretty. <3

After the good meal, Jun Kai offered to pay half of my share.
I am blessed, I swear.
So grateful because I was quite broke, but had to satisfy my cravings else I'll feel ultra sad as I was still controlling my food intake quite rigorously.


And, I know you're going to complain that I eat too much Japanese food, but I can't help it, sushi's awesome!


It's getting late, and I need to sleep!
Goodnight everybody!! <3