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Sam Salmon

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  1. Saravanaa Bhavan 955 Oak.

    This South Indian chain has been getting excellent reviews on the net so I slouched in after a long tiring day.

    If my first visit is anything to go by I'll soon be a regular-the food is outstanding, while I have had bits of South Indian food here and there the cooking at this place is outstanding. :wub:

    I could gush on and on but am bushed-try it for yourself-very reasonable and already busy after only a few weeks being open.

  2. A wonderful tribute eatrustic-Thanks for posting.

    My first memoy of James Barber was a cooking show on CoOp Radio-Yes radio!

    Just the sound of things sizzling in the pan and his low key avuncular manner were enough to rivet my attention-it was the first I'd ever heard of Basmati Rice to this day there's rarely anything else in my pantry.

    Quite agree about his bringing the wealth of local ethnic cookery into mainstream focus quite unlike anyone else.

    There'll never be anyone like him again..... :sad:

  3. Eat your food the way that is most enjoyable to you, dear. If being seen as a "Gaijin" is an issue that will mar your experience, then read as much as you can, and decide for yourself- which rule will make you seem more rarified a personage than the rest of the "Gaijin". If you simply ENJOY dipping your food into a soy/wasabi mix, then do THAT......

    Indeed! :cool:

  4. .....some places, where management joins in on the griping about customers, encourage a server culture where customers are more tolerated than welcomed and looked down upon if not up to the restaurant's sense of hipness,

    In addition to Holly's insightful post as partially quoted I'd add Management who treat 'the floor' as some remote wilderness that servers are banished to- never venturing forth themselves-as though 'working the house' were below them.

    If the place is slammed by a rush management sits back and watches as the place clogs up instead of acting to relieve what needs to be done. :sad:

  5. Wonderful tasty looking meals and excellent value @ ¥ 1,050.

    A price comparison-here in Vancouver I paid about ¥ 900 for a small bowl of Green Beans Goma-ae, 2 Inari and a Yam Tempura roll from Fuji Ya all premade and selected cafeteria style and eaten sitting @ a grubby counter elbow to elbow.

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