Big Trouble in Little Tokyo

The fellas and I were in search for a birthday gift for Madie, everybody's favorite cousin! Since she's a big fan of art and Japan flavored stuff, we took the train to Little Tokyo to shop.

The boys planned out our route at the station:

We shopped and shopped, and found a cool bag for Madie that zips into a little pouch. Then we filled it with cute little somethings; including a sponge shaped like a cat, a set of glitter chop sticks and a bunch of chocolates and candy.

All that shopping made us hungry, so we walked over to a little sushi place, The Frying Fish. When we all walked in, we discovered it was a tiny sushi bar whereupon the sushi circled the bar/island on a conveyor belt. Hartwell screamed, "Mom! That's a conveyor belt!"

Hartwell was so excited to be able to just grab food off the belt and eat it. He ate mackerel. And tuna sashimi. Bee ate 2 plates of edamame, one of which was grabbed when I wasn't looking. The sushi chef even did  magic tricks for them!  I really should have been paying more attention to the plate prices. It turned into a $50 lunch...of joy!

Here we are dancing on the mirrored ceiling:

On the way home we stopped for a snack. I wanted cupcakes, but Hartwell wanted to go to the coffee shop we usually stop at when dad is with us. So they had water and a brownie. And I had a giant latte full of espresso.

Today Hartwell told me when he grows up he wants to be a sushi chef...and work at The Frying Fish.

Irashaimase!

 

I took the boys to a sushi restaurant for lunch this week. I blame Disney. Between Mulan and Monsters, Inc., I had no choice. I know they don't seem like sushi movies, but Mulan is Asian and in Monsters, Inc. Mike Wazowski takes Celia to Harryhausen's for an anniversary dinner. Which is a monster flavored sushi restaurant. Combine that with the Melissa and Doug sushi set Hartwell got for his birthday, you have a sushi crazed boy. Make that "Shushi." 

The place we went was great. The servers thought it was adorable that my boys wanted to try the sushi. And they put my in a booth at the back of the restaurant, my favorite! They also checked on us a lot and wanted to know what the boys thought.

We ordered the Sushi Fun Plate, so the boys could make their own sushi. Mostly they just ate the rice and played with the "bubbles," which was the salmon roe.

The next day, Hartwell asked to go eat at the sushi restaurant with the rectangle cookies. I'm pretty sure he thinks sushi is rice balls, orange juice and orange sherbet with a wafer cookie.

Not close at all, buddy.