The AL reviewed the new Sushi place in Sioux Falls; Tokyo. They gave it 4 stars. They said the table being bussed, the pretty plates and fried shrimp pumpkin whatever is why they liked it so much. Well when you review a Japaneses restaurant it is a good idea to actually eat sushi! I went there last Saturday. It was horrible. The tables have to be constantly bussed because they are so fricken small you barely have room for a saki shot glass. The HyVee food court has more ambience (and bigger tables). As for the service; they seated us and we sat and sat and sat. I told my friends “I bet they make us sit here because they want to take our entire order at one time.” Sure enough, the waitress greeted us (w/o ice water) and she wanted our drink order, our app order and our dinner order all at one time. I looked at her and said “We will order drinks and then we will order our food after we get our drinks.” This tactic is used by places like AppleBees, it is a table turning tactic. Sorry I like to have a beverage or two before I eat. I felt like I was at the Mickey D’s drive thru. But let’s move onto the food. The tuna (sushi) was obviously thawed out. The secret of sushi is fresh fish. Then we got some weird fried roll that had nacho cheese sauce (7-Eleven style) poured over it. My one friend was polite and told them we did not like it and were not going to eat it. Then another waitress came up and asked if they could box it and I finally said “You do not understand, it doesn’t taste good, we do not want it and don’t want to pay for it.” She said she had to talk to her Manager. They took it off the bill.

If you like noisy, tiny tabled restaurants that serve tempura, this is the place for you. Otherwise, yuck!

 

AL’s Advertorial version:

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070927/ENT02/709270329/1037/ENTERTAINMENT

 

Well the media is up to their same shananagins. They are predicting Hillary as the Democratic Nominee (even though not a single primary has been held). Remember back in 2004? Dean this, Dean that. Where did Dean end up, he ended up with the media destroying him in the end. I hope the media and the Republicans keep at Hillary, this will ensure the real Democratic candidate wins the nomination; Edwards.

U.S. Sen. James Abourezk was interviewed by Argus Leader reporter, David Kranz.

I like Jim. If you go to lunch at Saana’s, his wife’s restaurant, you may run into him. He has one of the sharpest political sense of humors I have ever heard. I enjoy conversing with him. Saana’s food ain’t bad either, one of my favorite places to eat, her spicy Hummus dip is to kill for.

I think this line in the story pretty much sums up why we need to stop supporting Israel in the middle east. It is creating hatred towards Americans by Muslim’s across the world, and breaking off ties with Israel may help relations. We should try to be diplomatic with EVERYONE in the MidEast. For the record, I am a deist and don’t really care if you are Christian, Jewish or Muslim, I just think people need to get along regardless of their beliefs.

“Anytime anybody criticizes Israel’s policy in Palestine, the defense is that they are anti-Semite instead of arguing whether or not their policies are good or bad for America. They start calling people racists for just bringing up Israel’s policy,” Abourezk says. “What the Zionists like to do is get people off the subject of Israel’s brutality toward the Palestinians during their occupation, their illegal occupation.”

This painting will be on the silent auction at Jazz and Brews this weekend. Get your bids in.