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I went to Wasabi a couple of weeks ago with TheLady and had both Bento (chilli pork and chicken rice) and Sushi (a bunch of stuff tuna, salmon, avocado) like the greedy bastard I am.
We then went to see this Japanese film, Arigato, at BAFTA which she'd got free tickets to.
The food was really good. The film was not.
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its pretty difficult to feel like youve really porked out on sushi though isnt, unless you have more money than god or know some really ace person who gives you loads of free sushi. i mean, i have never found myself thinking 'wow, i thought i had stacks of room left until i ate the seventh avocado roll, and then i realised that the equivalent of more than one level dessert spoon of sticky rice is just too much goddamn sticky rice for this little samurai!' thats just never happened to me.
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quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: its pretty difficult to feel like youve really porked out on sushi though isnt, unless you have more money than god or know some really ace person who gives you loads of free sushi. i mean, i have never found myself thinking 'wow, i thought i had stacks of room left until i ate the seventh avocado roll, and then i realised that the equivalent of more than one level dessert spoon of sticky rice is just too much goddamn sticky rice for this little samurai!' thats just never happened to me.
That's why you have to eat at the teppan table, because you get proper food like steak and chicken which fills you up proper domo
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thasswh'amsayin holmes. trace was calling himself 'greedy' for eating sushi and a proper meal; i was reassuring him that such behaviour does not betoken piggishness in the least, more a natural desire to enjoy the transport into a world of sensual delights that sushi provides and similataneously fill ones tum with the tasty fuel. which is not to say that boy racer is not a great greedy scoffwizard. he absolutely is, theres no doubt about it. but.
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You can eat yourself stupid without breaking the bank at Kulu Kulu. Okay sushi and sashimi. Tempura. Grilled salmon, chicken and eel. They do the nice vegetable things, too. Braised aubergine, spinach with the nutty gloop, kimu-chi (kimchi with an 'u'), that tangy, crunchy seaweed salad with the sesame seeds on. It's in Brewer Street, the Regents Street end.
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Ah, Kulu Kulu, excellent choice. I actually don't mind the Yo Sushi round the corner too much either.
Oh, and if not for sushi, but for Japanese, then also on Brewer St is a great place, which I have neglected to remember, but it's a couple along from the health place there, and has a picture of a little childs big head drawn on the sign.... Kind of like this
but with hair
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In my one moment as a media cnut, I went to the opening of Ubon, the Docklands branch of Nobu. Cunn(t)ingly positioning myself near the kitchen door meant that I ate so much sushi, and that fancy marinated cod stuff, that I did think I was going to be sick. Not helped by the free bolly, darling. However, I struggled manfully on, bravely putting away £100-worth of raw fish on my own.
quote:Originally posted by mart: you can stuff your face if you make it at home, though
Yeah, but... you've got to get the rice, cook it, cut it with the special vinegar. Get the seaweed, prep all the veg and the fish. Roll it all up, cut it, dish out the wasabi, and soy and ginger. Unless you don't mind eating like a fucking barbarian, it's a big pain in the arse. You're much better off going to a sushi joint and getting a pro to do all the hard work for you. It'll taste a lot better, too. Most of the time.
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Sushi is really good social food - the last night my Japanese friends were here the drummer knocked up a right royal spread with the wraps, white rice and various sorts of fillings (fish, meat veg) with sauces including of course wasabi, which people just made their own handrolls with, plus sake and shouts of 'Kumpai' with every shot. Its not unlike the Duck and pancakes you get in chinese restaurants where you make them yourselves.
As you don't have the hassle of making small sushi portions beforehand it is not that difficult to prepare, and with the choices laid out for fillings theer should be something there for everyone - just get some smoked salmon, herring, sliced cucumber, fried mince, pork, chicken and you are pretty much there. Yum.
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Trailers I've been watching recently to get me excited about the future of the cinema;
Casino Royale - looks great - yeah he's uglier than usual, but who cares if he gets it right? 300 - might be a bit shouty and hammy, but looks great
oh and although the trailer makes it look like too much of a "i've seen pulp fiction 3000 times and now I'm making a film so there", Smokin' Aces looks fun.
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Yeah, exactly. But what can he bring that the original doesn't have? The bloke I went with to the gig last night is into the same kind of films as me (and wrote the readable parts of Killing Time), and he pretty much said it was pacey with some good perfomances, but not as good as the original. I'm not dead against remakes. The Thing, The Fly, The Blob, even Dawn of The Dead were all excellent. But this seems kind of pointless to me, especially if it's as close to the original as my friend tells me. I suppose that I'm also kind of annoyed with the whole trend recently for remaking Asian fims. It makes financial sense of course, to release not 'quite as good' versions of films that have already proven their worth, but it gets under my skin all the same.
If scorsese did another 'after hours' or 'king of comedy' then I'd go to see it, but a remake of Infernal Affairs doesn't excite me.
However, The Holy Mountain, which is on at the London Film Festival, does, and I got a ticket to check this bad boy out. Can you believe that I haven't yet seen it?!
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quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: Yeah, exactly. But what can he bring that the original doesn't have? The bloke I went with to the gig last night is into the same kind of films as me (and wrote the readable parts of Killing Time), and he pretty much said it was pacey with some good perfomances, but not as good as the original. I'm not dead against remakes. The Thing, The Fly, The Blob, even Dawn of The Dead were all excellent. But this seems kind of pointless to me, especially if it's as close to the original as my friend tells me. I suppose that I'm also kind of annoyed with the whole trend recently for remaking Asian fims. It makes financial sense of course, to release not 'quite as good' versions of films that have already proven their worth, but it gets under my skin all the same.
You and me both. It's as if Hollywood (or the west in general) can't come up with their own ideas. It's annoying...
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In fairness, everybody is at it. The Hong Kong industry in particular rips off Japanese stuff much worse than Hollywood. Loads of films that came out after Ringu were 're-imaginings' of that concept. Check out this piece of shit. I've watched that and the sequel. Why? Because I'm a bonehead.
I suppose that Hollywood studios don't really take the risks that they used to when the great films were being made, and this is just another example. It's not just Asian cinema is it, as we've seen with the remaking of a load of seventies horror. I think that's why I loved The Kid Stays In The Picture so much. You got the sense of people going all out, overcoming incredible odds and backing crazy geniuses to make films that would be better than anything else before them. Now it's all so safe seeming.
However, as I said, remakes can be superb when there's a point to them, and they've always happened. For instance, did you know that the classic Buster Keaton film "fat chance" was a remake of an African film called "Ngikona Sala kahle Wena" (translated, "Big Supper Fertility tumble" )? Or that the Woody Allen comedy "Summer in the Park" was originally an English television drama of the same name? If you look into it, loads of films are remakes or rip offs of other, more obscure productions.
But this is me looking to a time when I wasn't even alive with ridiculously rose tinted specs. And I don't really know what I'm talking about, seeing as I haven't sat down in front of a proper star spangled Hollywood film in the cinema for a long time.
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quote:Originally posted by Amy: You and me both. It's as if Hollywood (or the west in general) can't come up with their own ideas. It's annoying...
I dunno. There's such an incredibly long tradition of people re-inventing stories for different audiences, it seems rash to dismiss something out of hand just because it's a remake. Obviously something like The Hills Have Eyes remake is creatively bankrupt and has nothing to offer in terms of style, excitement or anything at all, really, but then even if it wasn't a remake it'd still be a pointless and boring film.
You wouldn't dismiss Shakespeare's Othello just because you'd seen Hecatommithi, even though it closely follows the story of that original play. Similarly, you surely wouldn't write off Mozart's Marriage of Figaro as just an example of Viennesse composers running out of ideas. Whether it's a remake isn't really relevant if the end result is fresh, exciting and incisive - basically the same things you'd expect from any other film.
I don't know whether people always got so upset about remakes - I don't know whether people got stampy-foot over The Magnificent Seven for example. I wonder whether maybe people just feel more ownership over films than they used to, like buying Infernal Affairs and enjoying it makes it feel more like your film and therefore it's more of an affront if someone puts a different spin on the story. But, eh.
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There's some of semi-interesting discussion about this over on the imdb for Gus' Psycho remake. Not exactly the same, I know, but at least it tackled the debate head on. Seems like few people worked out what he was doing.
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