synaesthesia Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Naked sushi in LA Brings new meaning to Sunset Strip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Wing Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 A brawl erupted over who got the mirugai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Nice set of mums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Azzarano Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 The price is $1,100 PLUS ths cost of the food. Hmmm - I wonder if you can get it to go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Slater Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 All Nippon Airways........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmwine Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Looks so delicious I wanna dive right in .... and eat the place setting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Customers have also requested male models, and the restaurant is trying to oblige.Thank God for equal opportunity. Otherwise it would be like getting a side of patriarchal repression with your unagi maki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcanuck Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Man, this is all just so last decade. One of the "alternative" clubs I used to hang out at in the mid-90s would do this at special parties. Ah, my misspent youth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Man, this is all just so last decade. Agreed, if not older. I recall eating macaroni and cheese off the lunch lady in Junior High-- and that was the late 70's. Why are you looking at me like that? Didn't they do that in your school too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DameEdna Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 "Customers have also requested male models, and the restaurant is trying to oblige." Wasn't there a Washington doughnut shop that did something like that?. Maybe not ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Wasn't there a Washington doughnut shop that did something like that?. Maybe not ... Yes and they also had horseshoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Blume Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Folks, I'm pretty sure now that this fad springs from a literary allusion even if the connection has been lost over time. I just read a short story that I urge all of you to seek out: "The Gourmet Club" by Juni'ichiro Tanizaki. The tale inspires the title of a collection published in English translation in 2001. Japanese critics use the term ero-guro-nansensu to characterize the intermingling of erotic obsession, the grotesque [quite disgusting at times] and comic obsurdity found in such fiction. Tanizaki was very much a gourmet himself and describes food with meticulous rapture. John Donne in Japanese prose had the poet gone to culinary school instead of being frocked. Here's the beginning as translated by Paul McCarthy: "I daresay the members of the Gourmet Club loved the pleasures of the table not a whit less than they loved those of the bedroom.... Whenever they discovered some novel flavor, they took as much pride and pleasure in it as if they'd found a beautiful woman for themselves.... For in their view, cooking was an art...It took them to such giddy heights that it seemed only natural they should think that these epicurean pleasures were as much of the spirit as of the flesh. But the devil, it seems, is as powerful as God, for when any of the sensual pleasures (and not only those of the table) are taken to their furthest point, there is a danger of losing oneself entirely in them...Thus, as a result of their gormandizing, each and every one of them was afflicted year-round with a large pot-belly. And it was not only their bellies, of course: their bodies brimmed with excess fat; their cheeks and thighs were as plump and oily as the pig's flesh used in making pork belly cooked in soy sauce. In realizing his dreams of creating dishes of utter novelty, the protagonist Count G. concludes a banquet with an item called "Deep-fried Woman, Korean Style." Not as horrifying as that sounds. For the Japanese aristocrat who reveres Chinese cuisine above all others, "Korean style" refers to tempura. Diners are invited to sit around a table upon which a beautiful Chinese woman lies, seeming dressed in "a delicately patterned white damask" robe. The cloth proves to be deep-fried batter, instead, which members of the Gourmet Club consume to reveal her flesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Looks so delicious I wanna dive right in .... and eat the place setting There's always uni... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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