Last Wednesday...
Aug. 19th, 2006 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflydreamingIn spite of the loss of a few yeahs and maybes, Sushi Night at Ohana went well. This was my first time to the Japanese Polynesian tikki bar, and while I had heard reports of its goodness, I was still happily surprised. From the decor to the food, it's a lot of fun. The service in the bar while we grazed on happy hour gyoza and sushi hand rolls (the cone shaped ones) and the service at the table rated far above the typical. A glance at the menu might make Ohana look like an expensive place, but as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ironymaiden noted, the drinks are enormous and don't skimp on the booze. All the food that we ordered was delicious. I strongly recommend the "half-baked" sushi roll and the bananas on fire dessert.
There were tender gyoza (pot stickers) and two kinds of roll during happy hour: salmon skin maki and unagi (bbq eel) handroll. The hand roll were generously stuffed. Llynecat & Ironymaiden drank vividly colorful Blue Hawaiians, Ameriksha and I both sipped hot sake. The pitchers served at happy hour are large and filled to the top. Sadly, Varina8 had to leave before we moved to the table.
For dinner we ordered a feast of scallops wrapped in bacon, coconut prawns, dragon roll and more unagi, a "sumo bento" and the half-baked roll. When Samildanach arrived later, he added a spicy tuna roll (that unexpectedly came with tender cooked shrimp on top). The bento contained 3 thick cuts of ahi sashimi, salmon teriyaki, steak teriyaki, chicken katsu, and assorted side vegetables. The salmon and the katsu, I thought, were a cooked a little further than ideal, but I only mention it because everything else was so perfect. Ohana's sauces are marvelous. The "half-baked" roll is worth the 15/20 minute wait for it. It's an assortment of fish (primarily salmon) slowly baked in a spicy, thick sauce, then served over what is described as a California roll but is much tastier than typical. The tender pieces of cooked fish were melt-in-your-mouth.
We ordered green tea tempura ice cream, which was good but upstaged by the bananas. Drizzled at the table in 151 rum and lighted on fire, the already tasty looking assortment of ice cream and fruit is transmuted to a higher form. Besides, it's dessert on fire, and how can that be wrong?
I was happy to spend some time talking tovarina8, who I don't see often enough, and amheriksha, who is now employed in downtown Seattle, which means more after-work socializing, yay! As ever, ironymaiden and llynecat and samildanach are great company & conversation at dinner. Hopefully, heidimo and graphxgrrl and the rest of you sushi-nighters will join us for the next one. Ohana does happy hour all evening on Monday nights; we may need to go there again.
ironymaiden noted, the drinks are enormous and don't skimp on the booze. All the food that we ordered was delicious. I strongly recommend the "half-baked" sushi roll and the bananas on fire dessert.There were tender gyoza (pot stickers) and two kinds of roll during happy hour: salmon skin maki and unagi (bbq eel) handroll. The hand roll were generously stuffed. Llynecat & Ironymaiden drank vividly colorful Blue Hawaiians, Ameriksha and I both sipped hot sake. The pitchers served at happy hour are large and filled to the top. Sadly, Varina8 had to leave before we moved to the table.
For dinner we ordered a feast of scallops wrapped in bacon, coconut prawns, dragon roll and more unagi, a "sumo bento" and the half-baked roll. When Samildanach arrived later, he added a spicy tuna roll (that unexpectedly came with tender cooked shrimp on top). The bento contained 3 thick cuts of ahi sashimi, salmon teriyaki, steak teriyaki, chicken katsu, and assorted side vegetables. The salmon and the katsu, I thought, were a cooked a little further than ideal, but I only mention it because everything else was so perfect. Ohana's sauces are marvelous. The "half-baked" roll is worth the 15/20 minute wait for it. It's an assortment of fish (primarily salmon) slowly baked in a spicy, thick sauce, then served over what is described as a California roll but is much tastier than typical. The tender pieces of cooked fish were melt-in-your-mouth.
We ordered green tea tempura ice cream, which was good but upstaged by the bananas. Drizzled at the table in 151 rum and lighted on fire, the already tasty looking assortment of ice cream and fruit is transmuted to a higher form. Besides, it's dessert on fire, and how can that be wrong?
I was happy to spend some time talking to
varina8, who I don't see often enough, and amheriksha, who is now employed in downtown Seattle, which means more after-work socializing, yay! As ever, ironymaiden and llynecat and samildanach are great company & conversation at dinner. Hopefully, heidimo and graphxgrrl and the rest of you sushi-nighters will join us for the next one. Ohana does happy hour all evening on Monday nights; we may need to go there again.