Sushi bar dinner!

So last night, my family and I went out for sushi. There are many types of sushi restaurants in Japan, ranging from ones where sushi is served via conveyor belt (you pick up the plates of sushi off of the belt, and each plate corresponds to a different price) to sushi bars that you can't sit at to actual sit down restaurants. We picked the first kind, and man, the sushi was delicious. I had scallop sushi and mashed tuna sushi and broiled salmon sushi (they use a blowtorch to cook the top of the sushi) and more sushi that I can't remember. But below are some pictures we took of last night, enjoy!

    Green tea is super popular in Japan, so they decided to create a self-serve green tea machine. Clever!

That's the conveyor belt that the sushi comes on! Also a nice picture of the chef.

 

    Scallop sushi! This was also broiled.

 

    Shrimp sushi! This came on one of the cheaper colored plates (green), while the scallop above came on a more expensive  one. One similarity though - most plates contain two pieces of the sushi. The only exceptions are pieces of sushi that are very expensive, or sushi that is something wrapped in rice which is wrapped in seaweed (the ones that are cylindrical in shape).

Also, while we're taking an explanation break, you can also ask the sushi chef to make you specific kinds of sushi, but we didn't, preferring to try our luck at the conveyor belt. Everything we ate, we liked, but towards the end of the meal the sushi chef started making the sushi that we like (salmon, tuna) and we were already full. Did that stop us from eating any more? Nope. Funny story, my mom was waiting for the tuna sushi to come, because we saw the tuna being prepared, and she just decided that we could leave and come back another time when the chef plopped the tuna sushi plates on the conveyor belt. And so of course, we split the two sushi on the plate :)

    Broiled salmon sushi!

    Mashed tuna with leeks sushi!

    The all-important tuna sushi!

    Final plate count! Although some of my plates definitely ended up in different stacks. Now, how did the restaurant determine how much the bill was. You could count the plates, but considering we had 22, that would have taken forever. So what they did is they had someone come with an electronic-paddle type thing, and he basically waved it over the top of the pile, and then down the side of the pile (I assume that he was somehow scanning the plates, and the different colors that the machine scanned corresponded to the different prices). Once he finished scanning all four stacks, he gave us a receipt, which we then paid at the front of the restaurant. I thought this was pretty neat! And it also shows some of the technological advancements in Japan that the US doesn't have (although I'm not sure if any restaurant would ever need something like this).

All in all, a fantastic dinner!