I have Sushi issues! It’s not that I am allergic to sushi or even that I don’t like it. In fact I really, really, really (to the 10th power) love sushi.
My issue is I have trouble keeping up with how much everything costs when I’m eating sushi. I can’t really enjoy my sushi because in the back of my mind I’m afraid that when the check comes the result will be that I will have to cash in my 401K and my children will no longer be able to attend, college.
So what is my answer to this dilemma? The all-you-can-eat-buffet that offers sushi. One price, and I don’t have to count the sushi. The problem is most all-you-can-eat-buffet’s idea of sushi is a couple pieces of seaweed draped over a lump of rice.
However, today in Destin we found The Fuji Sushi and Seafood Buffet. In addition to the usual Chinese Buffet items, they had a Hibatchi grill where they would instantly grill anything you chose from steak, chicken, scallops, shrimp, pork, alligator, penguin, buffalo, polar bear, wombat and several endangered species from the Amazon jungle. Well, there may have not been that much variety, but I know there were very large piles of meat and seafood.
However I didn’t pay that much attention to the Hibatchi grill because I was too busy choosing from TWENTY-NINE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF SUSHI. In addition they had large stacks of tuna, salmon, eel, ect by themselves. This meant you could stack 10 pieces of tuna on one of those little rice thingies (this is a technical sushi culinary term) and eat it all at once. By the way, this is an advanced buffet strategy and should not be tried by buffet beginners. In addition, I should warn you that other people in the restaurant at tables near you may start pointing in your direction and laughing loudly (I’m not saying this happened to me, I’m just saying you might want to be prepared).
I actually have a buffet life verse:
“My son, eat honey for it is good.” – Prov. 24:13
Now I realize this is a verse that was written primarily about dessert but I do think it can also be applied to Sushi. There is however a couple verses that I have heard about that mention something called “self-control.”
Since I have been eaten sensibly and exercising regularly for the past several weeks (and have lost 9 pounds while gaining a great deal of energy) I decided to take this “self-control” idea a little more seriously.
I logged onto my dailyburn.com account and found that if I spend 1 hour and 55 minutes on the treadmill tonight (and tragically the treadmill will have to be moving while I’m on it) I will still meet today’s calorie goal.
I’m very confident at this moment that I will go right to the treadmill when we get home. In fact I am just as confident about this as I was that “I will never eat again” when I left the buffet about an hour ago.
The problem is that when I actually get home and unload the car from our trip to Mobile, AL I suspect that the couch (and the bed) will be a little more attractive than the treadmill.
This leads me to the reason for this blog. If you are my friend, please ask me in church tomorrow if I spent 1 hr. and 55 min. on the treadmill tonight. If I say “no” or give you some complicated but outlandish excuse (which I think may be one of my spiritual gifts) please verbally abuse me for a minimum of 90 seconds.
However please do not slap me on the back of the head as I have had 7 strokes and you will kill me.
You should try the Fuji buffet in Parker/Callaway area. Great all you can eat sushi bar, chinese food, and mongolian bbq. Good food, good atmosphere, good service. I believe it’s part of the same chain.
You can count on me…
We both think you are so funny, and since we are your frineds we will consider berating you for 90 seconds (or more) if you do not run on the treadmill for 115 minutes tonight. There is a good chance, however, that you will be spared from our ultimate harassment because we do not want you to ask us if we exercised tonight. HMMMM is that like backwards accountability? Or mutual exercise avoidance?
We do have to admit that the head slap is tempting.
This was HILARIOUS! I completely agree that sushi can be quite expensive. We’re lucky enough to have a place near us with lunch specials. They also unfortunately, happened to have the best sushi I have ever eaten…so it doesn’t really help much.
If you’re ever in the Madsion, WI area you will have to check out Takara. I personally recommend the Spicy Tuna and Spicy Salmon.
You can do it!! Run that treadmill into the ground!
Roy, you are still hilarious! I can’t say I care much for sushi but God has just given us a saltwater boat so we will be very soon reeling in very fresh ingredients. I need to find a way to send you some halibut (or you could come pick it up).
I like your writing style, and I’m hoping for more posts like this one.
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I feel your pain Roy! thanks for the tip about good sushi locations. As for exercising out of guilt.. hit the treadmill before you go-required!