We Had a Sushi Adventure!

So my sister-in-law, Beki, has come to stay with us for a while!  Yay!

Unfortunately, it’s been awhile since we’ve gone grocery shopping, so they only things we had available for dinner last night were rice with….. rice. 

So we decided to splurge and go out for dinner.  And what do we all love?  SUSHI!!!!!!  AHHHH… Omg, I love sushi so hard.  It is definitely my favorite food.  Besides ice-cream.  Like, I get seriously excited about sushi……….. Even now, all I can think about is sushi… Mmmmm..  California Rolls…… Salmon…………….. *sigh*

Anyways, so we decided to go to an all-you-can-eat sushi place here in Temecula called Gin Sushi.  It’s fabulous!  Between the 3 of us (David, me, and Beki), we ate 16 different rolls!  Yeah.  We love sushi.  And we were hungry.

The real excitement began towards the end.  It was our 2nd round, and David was filling out the menu list of the rolls we wanted next.  David put down an order for some kind of Cajun roll…. Sounded interesting.  He also found something called a “Rah-Rah Roll.”  We couldn’t find any descriptions for it in the main menu, so we thought we’d be adventurous and go ahead and order it.

The Cajun roll came out first.  We tried it.  It was interesting… it had a nice smoky flavor to it, classic Cajun spices, and really spicy!  We decided it was okay, but definitely not our favorite.  However, we continued to try to eat it (we were getting kind of full at this point), because the rule at Gin Sushi is anything you don’t eat with the all-you-can-eat, you have to pay extra for. 

Then came the Rah-Rah Roll.  It was a longer type of roll, wrapped in some kind of… something… like what they use to wrap won-tons.  Beki was the first to try it, and put the whole thing in her mouth… you know, the normal way you eat sushi.  And then the tears started coming. 

Tears were streaming down her face, but we all started laughing so hard!  Apparently, this Rah-Rah Roll has jalapenos in it. And spicy tuna. And sriracha sauce on it (an Asian hot sauce).  And no rice.  It seems the restaurant set out to make the spiciest sushi EVER. 

But of course, we had to eat it.  I was let off the hook, though, because I have a gluten-sensitivity, and the gluten content of it was unknown (especially with the wrapping).  AH, NUTS!!!  (tee hehe).  So Beki and David set off to finish it.  Now they typically like spicy food, but we were all so full at this point that the only way to make it edible was to try and pull out as much of the spicy stuff as possible… whole slices of jalapenos, mainly… seeds and all.

As we were trying to finish everything up (I was working on the Cajun roll while they forced down the Rah-Rah), the waitress came by to ask how we were doing.  We were laughing so hard, explaining how we had no idea what to expect with the Rah-Rah roll, and she didn’t seem to care that we still had a couple of pieces left.  Whew!

We decided to spend a little extra and get some mochi ice-cream in order to settle the quibblies in our tummies.  Felt MUCH better after that!

Now, we had a discussion and came up with several theories about why they named it the “Rah-Rah Roll.”

• When they first invented it, whenever someone ordered it, all the waiters would line up, bring it out to the table together, and shout “Rah-rah-rah-rah-rah-rah!!!!!” Maybe with some sparklers on top or something.
• After you eat it, you make a “rah…. rah…… rah” noise right before you puke.
• If you successfully eat it, they will cheer for you.
• When the chef makes it, he has an evil laugh, sounding like “Rah-hahahahaha!”
• It numbs your tongue so much, you can’t say anything else.

So that was our adventure!

…. And I’m still craving sushi.  If anyone ever wants to buy me dinner, sushi is the way to my heart.  🙂