奶油咪咪的喵言貓語

Finally, Mom and I fulfill our dream to dine at Tojo’s last thursday.

I first heard about this restaurant was this year spring when a visiting professor from Spain told me how much he loved Japanese food and he was treated to an expensive meal at Tojo’s for almost CDN$400 for two people. It certainly piqued my interest seeing that Vancouver has good and cheap Jap. restaurant everywhere. Then I read about Tojo’s on the newspaper the week after by suprise. He apprently was in vancouver very early on when there were only 60+ Jap restaurants in North America and he was the one invented California roll (the most popular kinda sushi found in every Jap. food menu here). In the newspaper, he talked about picking good fishes is what makes good sushi. A kind of traditional value toward jap. food that I read about in comic books or seen on jap drama. So naturally, Mom wants to try it.

The reason it was delayed until now is because the restaurant, Tojo’s, is always busy, they only take reservation and they are only open at nights. So we waited until last week that we had an occasion to celebrate to go.

Every staff in the restaurant speaks fluent japanese, including a east Indian waiter. Every dish is nicely arranged with pretty presentation. And then, there were so many creative kind of sushi that we have never imagined before. For example, we tried a northern light roll with thin piece of cucumber wrapped around and a rainbow roll that has tuna and salmon sashimi on top with egg crape in the middle. The fish no only tasts so fresh that it melts in your mouth and leaves a unbelievalble taste, the roll itselfs was such an art piece that almost stop you from eating away its existence. Dad’s special tuna sashimi was heavenly too. Apparent, they only offere that around this time of the season because of the fish only prosper now. Even their mango ice cream. which was on the house because we were frist time customer, was filled with lots of real fruit chunks, top with yogourt to balance out the sweet taste. Even though Dad thinks it’s too pricy ($190 CDN for 3people), Mom and I agree that we have to go again. We understand why a person interviewed by the newspaper said that he commutes to work by biking and saves every penny just to dine at Tojo’s once a week. It IS that good!

The picture is from and for more information:

http://www.tojos.com/