fake sushi, foot injury

I only ran 7 of 10 miles today due to some kind of stress injury/inflammation in my right foot. i hope i am able to do the imala run on nexy sunday!!! arrrggh!

Tonight S and I went out for dinner at the new-ish "sushi" place here in chapule. it's cute and has couches (!). We ordered the "auklan" roll and chicken on noodles in a beer sauce.

The thing you have to know about sushi culichi-style is that, well, it isn't sushi. Although "sushi" is perhaps the city's favorite restaurant food, I would like to change the name to "faux crab-rice-cream cheese-stuff." All sushi places invariable sell a long list of rolls, which are divided into 3 categories: normal, fried, and capped. (fairly self-explanatory) They all have 4 things in common: rice, fake crab salad, avacado, and philadelphia cream cheese. These ingredients are all rolled up into a neat little california-roll type of dish and served on a wooden plate. The variations on this basic roll are endless: cooked chicken, beef, seafood, or pork can be added into the roll or on top, and the roll can be doused with something resembling teriyaki sauce. Served with the roll are soy sauce, green onions, shredded carrots, hot peppers, and enough mayonnaise to swim in.

We like this new place because their roll had less cream cheese than other places, and S's chicken in beer sauce tasted remarkable like the pad thai which you can make from a thai kitchen brand mix. Although a far cry from either sushi or thai food, my tummy is full and happy and we really liked the couch.