We had recently had dinner at Sapporo (186 Rutland Avenue, Carlisle). We’ve eaten at this tiny restaurant run by a little old couple (he cooks, she serves) many times now. It’s simple, homestyle delicious cooking.
We ordered prawn dumplings, called “shu mai” on the menu. They came with a big blob of wasabi and a dish of soy sauce for dipping. The dumplings were filled with minced prawn meat and smelled too fishy for me. I just had one, and left the rest to Jac.
I had my current favourite dish from Sapporo, the chicken and vegetable stir-fry, with a large serve of rice. There was even a little zucchini in there this time. Jac ate some of my stir-fry too. The stir-fry sauce is so deliciously, irresistibly, intoxicatingly* drinkable – Jac usually finishes eating before me and sits and watches as I drink every last drop of sauce down. :)
Jac ordered the sashimi plate, with tuna, salmon and mackerel (we think). She really enjoyed this, and polished it all off. She knows when she orders sashimi it’s 100% all hers – I’ve never liked the taste nor the texture of raw fish.
I didn’t write the prices down, but it all came to AU$35.00. This was a really good dinner – delicious and satisfying without being too heavy.
*Not in the getting drunk sense. As in – not me getting drunk. The sauce was getting drunk though… by me. :)
I'm TFP, a food blogger from Perth, Western Australia.
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Funny, I hadn’t thought before about how you don’t like sushi. You have such similar tastes to me in everything else I choose to eat out – noodle and rice dishes, mostly Asian food of one kind or another, fried things :P – but no sushi. Blasphemy! ;)
I don’t know which I would jump on faster though, the fish or your stir fry. Yum.
Hi TFP,
Siew Mai with wasabi? That’s new! Must try!
I can’t help but notice that the plate was too big for the 6 siew mais don’t you think? It made it look so sparse!
Wonderful, mouth watering looking meal! Is there anything better than raw fish in hot weather?
Melissa,
I don’t mind sushi but do not like sashimi. Most of the time I want a hot meal, which is why I don’t choose sushi. A hot meal is so much more satisfying to me, somehow.
tunadip,
I suppose as they are dumplings made in a Japanese restaurant, they served them with wasabi. I didn’t think about the sparseness of the presentation, to be honest. I was too busy diggng into my stir-fry at the time. :)
Stylopath,
Jac would say “cold meat and salad”. That’s her favourite meal for hot weather. Sashimi will probably be somewhere near the top of her list too.
sashimi does require a developed taste, as I myself won’t eat it when I was little. Now, I really
love it, espiecially raw salmon being my favourite. I’m not too keen on the mackerel.