QotD: I Give It 5 Stars

What's your favorite restaurant?

I like Todai in Glendale, California. Ok, so it is this Japanese Seafood buffet with all you can eat everything and I like to eat everything and in large amounts. Especially raw fish, raw fruit, and all the in between stuff that keeps you from getting bored with eating raw everything. So you walk in and about 50 Japanese girls who are really from Japan greet you with "Hoswahmassay"!  Of course that isn't even close but that is what it sounds like. They are totally disinterested but treat you well and so on cue that it is frightening...but in a good way. They are all wearing white poofy sleeved silk blouses, and have hip hugging mini skirts and long blue -black hair. Stilettos in the dining room. They are gorgeous and it is like they have all been cloned from one hostess. They are quick, quiet, and before you can ask it is there.  This is a buffet so you get what you want when you want it and for a spoiled brat like me that is all I can ask for.  There is a soffit encirlcling a huge sparce dining room that is elegant in its sparceness. Blue neon is hidden around the ceiling , conceiled  yet colorfully visable. The food is laid out vast and plenty.  There are large quantities of fresh dishes that are garnished just so and on perfectly beautiful serving surfaces plated on ice, laying on kale (three colors) and not overdone. It is oh so appetizing and it is fresh, fresh, fresh, and the tempeature of everything if perfect.  It is by no means a Zagat Guide 5 star or probably not a golden fork winner but my $19.95 yields this skinny white guy about $200.00 worth of Sushi, Sashimi, and I love raw pinapple between fishes. I love flying fish roe, and Kevin loves the EBI.

I had never eaten Sushi but an employee from the Philipines coerced a free lunch out of me one day and I have never looked back. They have big plush Octopi stretched across the island tops between the banquets. The hostesses look you over and pic exactly the spot you would pick for yourself. So here's to you Pook Sullit Swalley, wherever you are. My friend Nancy who is Japanese told me what the girls say as you walk in.  She wrote it down and I could not believe that it was like 8 words.  It sounds like one long melodic pretty girl sneeze. Nancy is Japanese and her boyfriend Zuhaire is Saudi and yet wherever they go in LA everyone speaks Spanish to them,lol! She gets really pissed. "I'm not Mexican, I'm Japanese" She would bring things to work for me to test so my acquired taste is really an acquired memory. Between myself and Kevin I believe we eat enough that we can live off the one meal for a week. But I never feel grossly bloated or stuffed like a wild pig.  Just full, and frisky! That Wasabi and a lot of raw Ginger... Who needs Rhino Horn anymore. I love Todai and miss having it down the street from my house.  I believe Kevin feels the same way.  "Hey Kevin......What's your favorite restaurant..."? Todai?  O.K. I could eat good Sushi forever.  Oh, and Goldfish in Perimeter Center in Atlanta is pretty good too because it has a good dark Sushi Bar in the back with this huge wall of water and the Spanish guys making the Sushi do a pretty good job of it. And, they serve flan afterwards or a great Creme Brullee. And Nicky Blairs on the Sunset Strip had great Seared Ahi and a really good Salmon/Caper/onion appetizer but I always saw that real estate lady who had the botched plastic surgery that is on all those TV shows  about botched plastic surgery. And they got pissed when my friends lit sparklers on my birthday. What's a mushroom cloud of sulfer gonna do to a few hundred rich people that a good cup of coffee won't make them forget.  Check please!