Post a Comment On: A Nod to Nothing

We've been doing a monthly dinner event for almost a year now.  We've gotten around.  Tonight we went to Sakura in downtown St. Paul.  I had the Chriashi sushi - it's in the foreground.  K and L are eating primarily appetizers and rolls.  The food was good, although Kyle had the most positive things to say about the whiskey flight they tried before I got there and my sushi was better than Poot's salmon teriyaki, which looked like what you'd order if you didn't like sushi.  She did enjoy her dumplings.  I particularly liked them when I squeezed some orange on them (as in citrus, not simply the color) to complement the soy sauce.

Our historical venues:

November 2019 (Kyle) - Sakura October 2019 (Matthew) - Chimborazo September 2019 (Larry) - Mesob (Ethiopian on Hiawatha) August 2019 (Scott) - Apoy Phillipino Bistro July 2019 (Ming)- Mama Sheila’s Soul Food Kitchen [Buffet] June 2019 (Kyle) - Babani’s Turkish May 2019 (Matthew) - Winzer Stube German Restaurant April 2019 (Larry) - Adelita’s March 2019 (Scott) - George and the Dragon [Brunch] February 2019 (Ming) -  City Afrique (Poot and I missed this one) January 2019 (Kyle) - Peninsula
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Outside the restaurant someone had dropped their sushi roll.  Very sad.  I hope it wasn't the Zach Parise specialty roll.  And I assume they dropped it rather than flung it at the wall/ground in anger.
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We also made it to the play "Towards Zero" by Agatha Christie this weekend, over at Theatre in the Round. Good play.  I really enjoyed the first 99%.  And then there was a weird Christie twist at the end that made it feel like a bit of a rom com.  The acting was great and her murder mysteries are fun. This one had the motto that the murder should occur at the end of the story.
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Kyle gave me a birthday present, a bottle of Ohishi Whisky. 
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And Joe gave me a birthday present.  Schematics for a keg and other brewery related items.  I'm going to ask my father in law to frame them for me.  They'll be really nice wall art.  My family got me a cast iron bank.  A dog.  I have a small collection, and it fits in nicely.  Poot says she picked it up in Wisconsin near the cheese shop while on her visit to a friend last month. No picture.  You'll have to trust it looks like a cast iron dog.
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