uni vs jono

After the very Japanese meals me and Kouji had up in Hokkaido I felt pretty confident about keeping my food down when I took Akane's family to a swanky Sushi/Sashimi restaurant in Ebisu afew weeks back. They took me in
like a son for 2 months while I was looking for work and a place to live, so thought I'd show some more appreciation via their taste buds.



The raw fish was a breeze, salmon and tuna were tasty but I struggled with the prawns head again prefering to avoid the dozen or so crunchy legs this time. The grande finale was Sea Urchin or Uni to the Japanese. All I knew of these nasty little
balls of death before tonight was that are not pleasant to stand on, I've always tiptoed around the ocean floor when swimming in the sea after hearing about my Aunty standing on one as a kid and having to get the spikes cut out of her foot in hospital.
I had no idea people ate the inards of them. Well, the gonads to be precise. It had a subtle smell so I thought nothing of it although the thought of beer and copious amounts of
raw fish all over the table did enter my mind .. I bit the bullet and did it in one go anyways. The taste was nothing short of 1000 times the smell. Take the most rotten seaweed infested rockpool at the most rank seacove and you can get
a rough idea of the taste. I wasn't embarrassed about the teary eyed involuntary refluxes at the time but felt a little embarrassed afterwards. Everyone laughed it off so I don't think I depply offended anyone :(

I did my u@most to avoid any repeat of some childhood pumpkin eating memories I have. Me and my brothers always dreaded pumpkin in any form and one particular time we were out of juice so we all decided to chase our Roast pumpkin with
cold milk. I think at least 2 of us brought up a mix of pumpkin and milk onto our plates so yeah. Words of Wisdom for the day, never chase with cold milk.