Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Oh, Sush!

Warning: Food post with food pictures. Do not enter on empty stomach.

One of the things we miss about working at 1U was the fact that we never want for choice of food during our break. From the food court which we rarely go, to Mark's when we don't feel adventurous, to Charms for their carrot cake, to tapau a footlong Subway Italian BLT from the new wing, or even fast food when cravings dictate. Only sometimes we get the itch to head out of 1U to get some authentic hawker food - the nearest being in TTDI which isn't too bad. It was an option we considered a bit more often when 1U implemented their new parking rates too.

On occasions we do get this craving for cheap sushi.

Well it's a bit unfair to call it cheap sushi but that's what we think of Jusco's sushi counter. At Genki Sushi or Sushi King we'd be picking plate after plate that the bill won't be anywhere under RM20. But Jusco's sushi counter have them prepack sets that go on average about RM10, nothing spectacular but still enough to stave off the cravings, even if only for a while.

Random thought.

The good thing was that we could just buy a set, bring it back and eat in the office, the only interruption being any customers requiring assistance. Yeah during those days it was supposed to be full pharmacist coverage at all times at our branch, so if we were the only lucky pharmacist on shift we had to eat in the shop - no such thing as "Sorry, pharmacist on lunch break please come back at so-and-so." Ah well, sushi worked well for days like those. And we also learned the valuable lesson of sealing back the bloody plastic container and keeping it in the bloody fridge when we haven't the time to eat when we found a bloody cockroach playing bloody food-taster for us.

We only had like what, two pieces out of 10? And we thought of saving the salmons and crabsticks for last some more.

Imagination.

Well now we don't work in 1U anymore. But just recently in this past 2 weeks the craving for cheap sushi hit again. Hard.

Hallucination.

So we thoughts, "Nearest Jusco is MidValley. Shall go there have a look."

We utterly utterly despise parking at MidValley. It's hell.

We'd purposely headed there after typical lunch hours on Monday only to find the basement parking choke-full and we were exiled to the new parking areas meant for the upcoming Gardens. Parking itself took a good 15 minutes plus. We were sweating by the time we reached the escalators.

Delirium.

And Jusco MidValley did not have a sushi counter. Just takoyaki. WHY? Takoyaki for lunch? Not filling. Unless their sushi counter's hidden inside their supermarket, all we could find was mooncake stalls all over the place. Sushi mooncake? No, thank you. KFC, here we come.

Takoyaki's just for snacking dammit.

Desperation driven us today to head all the way back home to 1U to finally satisfy the craving. At least that's done with for now.

Thank goodness we'll never get pregnant. Who knows what cravings will come man.

14 comments:

Shake Trees said...

yuhmm... without the cockroach. :P

FeR said...

ooooooo...was the cockroach hurt? how come it's bloody? :P

*hehe*

Medie007 said...

hohoho/// never tried sushi from jusco... never even been to sushi king.. hahaha...

and yea, mid valley huh? i was thinking i'd be going more to 1U and ikano next time round... lalalalal

Jason said...

Long time tarak makan sushi

J.L said...

Always buy sushi from Jusco MV or One Utama

Henry Yeo said...

sorry, gave up on retail sushi outlets after studying in Japan. but you do know where to find me if I am going Japanese

William said...

Sushi Groove!

Aik Yong said...

oooo sushi sushi sushi must have sushi (curse empty stomach)

did someone say sushi groove is best?

Unknown said...

damn you...
Damn You!
DAMN YOU!!!

Its now 9.51pm, thought will catch an early sleep after checking your blog...

Mana tau...

So Thank u very much Mr Alvin Chan for screwing up my sleep-before-10pm-since-I-have-to-wake-up-at-5am-plan.

You
Just
Wait

Janvier said...

Koala: Yum indeed without the cockroach.

Fer: Bloody cockroach ran away! :(

Ah-Bong: Those be our second and third homes you talk about.

Jason: Go get some!

Chester: We didn't see a sushi stall in MV! Not the Genki Sushi/Sushi King ya.

Henry: That we do. But it's cheap sushi we're talking about here.

William: Belum cuba. Our last good sushi was in Kura, One World Hotel.

Aik Yong: Warned you already leh. Go try and tell us. :P

Bong: BWAHAHAHA you see? Karma for that BahKutTeh email. And we haven't started sending you them Midnight Meals MMS yet.

Ganymede said...

I want sushi!~~~

Janvier said...

QR: Get some this weekend!

N.J.A.P.F. said...

Hey! That last pic looks familiar! I think you sent that to me on MSN before once!

Janvier said...

NJAPF: You are right! It's the same pic! Didn't take pic of recent cheap sushi meal as was busy eating it. :D