Japanese are famous for their intelligence, their workaholic lifestyle, their ultra cool gadgets, their out-of-this-world hairdos, their wonderful cuisines, their addictive animes, their stimulating porn and porn vocabularies and during spring time, their beautiful sakuras.

But during the hot summer, Japanese are famous for their unagi... and because jap food has suddenly become the latest world phenomenon, it isnt surprising that the world is currently goin thru an unagi craze too. It's UNAGI season baby!

Unagi is a Japanese dish of grilled eel consumed during summer thanks to its various health properties which help Japanese people cope with hot and humid days.

so when sam invited me, together with four other bloggers to review Sushi King's current promotion, the 'Excellent Unagi Fair', i couldnt wipe that cheshire grin off my face because unagi is my favourite japanese dish right next to salmon

we were joined by Sushi King's manager Hoo Jet Son who was very knowledgeable when it came to ordering and eating japanese food and was super friendly the entire night... bet u can tell from the pic above.


Creative Combo

Me HEART seaweed

gotta admit, i started eating sushi because of my un-denying love for seaweed.
so hand rolled sushi has always been my favourite cuz of the SEAWEED. Unagi Temaki is a must have... grilled eel, fish roe, omelette, shredded cucumber and mayonnaise... i always think mayonnaise and seaweed makes a great combo. my only complain is the manner in which you have to eat it. Jet Son said it compliments the sushi maker if you can stuff an entire sushi into your mouth... errr... thing is, i dun really have a big mouth do i. ;(


then there's the Unagi Manju which i give props for presentation. Tempura seaweed wrapped with grilled eel and topped with fish roe... unagi manju is very soft and tasted wonderful. has to be one of my favourite dishes that night. YUMMY!



Attention All Egg Lovers

Unagi Chawanmushi prolly freaked me out at first... MORE EGG! bt surprisingly, it tasted alright. It's a Japanese egg custard served with grilled eel and edamame which irene just taught me how to eat the night itself. Rather bland in taste (could be reason y i finished it), Jet Son mentioned that adding sweet sauce will make the dish much more tastier and it definitely did.


BENTO

Unagi Bento was the last dish of the night and everyone was already feeling the effects of over-eating.

It didnt help that it was HUGE, grilled eel and vegetable tempura, omelette, deep fried fish cake, green soybeans, mixed vegetable salad, crabstick, japanese radish served with miso soup and steamed rice.

even typing that was soo much work!

The tempura is highly recommended because it reflects Japanese's triumph in both culinary art and cooking - where fried food should be light and fresh-tasting as opposed to heavy and greasy. I'm definitely heading back for this... when i start missing unagi of course.

i mean u cant blame me... 13 unagi dishes in a NIGHT... omg... if i had fast metabolism that enables me to stay rake thin, i wouldnt be complaining. But my metabolism isnt as effective as it used to be in my teens and i'm only 22!!!!