Let’s go ask Melanie. She’s fluent in sushi.

Wowza. I just had the most yucky sushi I’ve had in a long time. It wasn’t quite the worst I’ve had, because the rice was cooked (barely), but it’s a close second.

There’s a sushi restaurant chain in Zurich (possibly Switzerland) called Sushi Kalifornia and one opened close to where I live. Since I was right in the area today and hungry for some healthy lunch, I decided to give it a try. Sushi is, bar none, my favourite food in the world. Evah! Which means: I know the difference between good sushi and bad sushi.

I have to admit, I acted against my better judgement here. Since this place opened, the most people I’ve seen in there at any given time were three, and that’s including the lady behind the counter. This restaurant is in an area where lunch time business should be better.

Anyhoo: I walked in there at 1:45pm today and it was empty. Literally, empty. The lady behind the counter stood there, looking lost and a bit apprehensive. First of all: they don’t have a chef in sight. Good sushi places usually have a chef preparing the food in front of everyone. Then, they have a weird additional warm buffet, which serves some pseudo-Chinese food and, inexplicably, some pasta with salmon too. Yes, I know, I must’ve brain dead for a few minutes to still actually buy something from them. They have a refrigerated counter with the sushi, already boxed up, on display. I bought the one which had a selection of all the types they offer (except some crappy mayo-tuna shit sushi that I really wasn’t about to buy). It costs a fortune for eight pieces of sushi.

And let me tell ya, it was awful. No, really, awful. The pickled ginger was prepackaged and old, as was the wasabi. And the sushi contained: canned green bean bits and canned carrot bits. Are you fucking kidding me? And to top it all off, the salmon sushi didn’t have fresh salmon on it, it had smoked salmon on it. Either that, or I will be throwing up all night and be hospitalised come morning. I have never been so appalled by the ingredients some people dare stick into sushi. Sacrilege!

Anyway, if you live in Zurich or plan to come here one day, don’t have the Sushi Kalifornia shit they dare call sushi. MacDonald’s is probably healthier (and definitely tastier) than the crap they sell there.

Live long and prosper, peace,

Anna