I ’m 33 years onetime and tried sushi while in the middle of the sea , so here ’s what I really thought .
I’mSpencer, and I have a confession to make: up until a few days ago, I’d never eaten sushi before. It somehow took me over 33 years, so here’s my honest review of each bite, from salmon, to eel, and everything in between.
I ate at Makoto Ocean while traveling through the Mediterranean on Sun Princess. The chef who the restaurant partnered with, Makoto Okuwa, has over 20 years of experience and is a literal master of Edomae-style sushi, so I knew I was going to get some of the best and freshest sushi of my life. I also brought my friend, Alissa, along for the taste test because her favorite food is sushi. This way you can see both of our reviews to get a more well-rounded take. Here we go!
1.Yaki edamame (charred soybean)
2.Miso soup (silken tofu, wakame, scallions)
3.Bluefin toro tartare (cured egg yolk sauce, nori rice cracker)
4.Atlantic ora king salmon nigiri (two pieces)
5.Spanish bluefin tuna nigiri (two pieces)
6.Chu-toro temaki (bluefin medium fatty tuna hand roll)
Side note: Here I am going through all seven stages of grief while trying the fatty tuna roll, which was just too fishy for me:
This next course came with four different kinds of fish:
7.Dutch yellowtail
8.Canadian scallop
9.Seared Spanish bluefin fatty tuna
10.Japanese BBQ freshwater eel
11.Snow crab temaki (Korean snow crab hand roll)
12.Mochi ice cream (chocolate with honey crumb)
Spencer : I feel a spot shamed that part of this experience was wasted on me since I ’m not the biggest fan of fish . Like , I experience bad that I was n’t able to apprize the food as much as most people would . Still , I had such a fun sentence essay all of these unexampled dishes , and I ’m genuinely proud of myself for giving each one a prospect ( and I ’ll be think about that eel for alongtime ) . Overall , I do n’t know if unsanded fish is for me , but I ’d love to try out more with it and with cooked seafood . In fact , since this sushi dinner party , I ’ve strain sea freshwater bass , langoustine tartare , and my very first oyster … and I liked them all ! If you ’re a fan of fish then you ’ll probably enjoy all the sushi that this dinner had to offer , so in that sense I ’ll rate the experience a 9/10 . I ’ll also work on refining my palette before come back for round two .
Alissa : For me , the calibre of food in this meal was just so telling , so I ’d well rate it a 9.5/10 . I be intimate the real wasabi too . Omakase is always so fun to me because it allow you stress so many different course and flavor of each fish , and this one was especially fresh . I ’d actually say this was my preferred meal on board the entire ship . So , so , so dear .
Unfortunately, I must confess that I gave Alissa all the leftover sushi that was too fishy for me. So here I am before scarfing down some chicken fingers, French fries, and a quesadilla after dinner because I’m a child. Bye!!!!!
