Mini Review 1 of 3: Sushi in Minneapolis

Sunday I woke up in the morning and I went outside to ride my bike. In case you didn’t know, during my first bike practice on Friday I figured out how to ride a bike. So I was outside riding it and I remembered that I got to go to Minneapolis that day. So I rode my bike for a while and went inside. At 11:50, my brother’s football team was supposed to have pictures in 30 minutes and we had to go all the way to Ankeny so we just decided to skip football that day and go to Minneapolis early.

So my grandma got here and we left. We read books and talked and played for 4 hours. We sang the “Bottles of Beer” song and it was pretty fun on the way up.

When we got to Minneapolis, we checked into a hotel and got all of our stuff ready. And then we went to a restaurant, Ichiban, a Japanese restaurant and they have floating boats of sushi. I think that was pretty, well not pretty, but an AWESOME thing to have in a restaurant. Since sushi is my favorite food, I started taking platters of sushi as soon as I sat down. I got miso soup. The first sushi piece I ate was a bunch of rice with seaweed and then a strip of fish on the top. I got a lot of those kinds of sushi. It was a pretty fun restaurant.

There was a chef in the middle of the sushi bar. We sat in seats with the sushi boats floating around in front of us. I ate 20 pieces! It doesn’t sound like a lot, but it was. Each piece was on its own plate.

I liked the restaurant because it was cool. They had waterfalls inside and all the sushi you could eat and the sushi was floating around on boats so it was pretty much the most awesome restaurant ever.

For dessert, I got a little tin bowl of green tea ice cream. It didn’t really taste like green tea because it was really sweet. And then I went over to the wishing well and I wished 11 wishes and about 5 of those were for a new house. And after that, we left and went back to the hotel and went swimming. Then we checked out the gym, and then we watched Karate Kid.

This is one of three blog posts because I had three days in Minneapolis and I went to three restaurants for supper. I will be having more reviews soon. And hopefully I will get a bunch of views, like way more than my mom on her blog.

And I am surprised that my word “humongo-badungo” is now used a lot at Integer. There, I made your work famous, Mom.

Miso Restaurant

Tonight I went to Sakura Hibachi Express. It is a Japanese restaurant that's very close to McDonald's (on Euclid Ave., about a block west of E. 14th St.), which is weird because McDonald's is fast food and it's not that good for you and Sakura is local food and it's good. All Japanese restaurants are good if they have sushi. Cause sushi is my favorite food. You already knew that.

So I got a spicy crawfish sushi roll, which tasted really good and pretty spicy, but really, really, really good. It tasted so good that I wanted to eat all of it but I ate only two pieces so Keesia could have two and Shawn could have two.

Then I got a small steak hibachi. Their steak was really good tasting. It tasted tender and juicy, and I liked that. It tasted kind of rich but really, really, really good.

Hibachi is a food with rice and a kind of meat, and it has zucchini, broccoli and onions. Hibachi is often cooked in a big table in front of you and I've seen people do that in front of me. And that was fun. But at this restaurant they just made it in a kitchen and sold it to you like if you were going to Zombie Burger or other local places.

The pricing was pretty good! It was one of the best $7 meals that you can get in Des Moines. Well, what I mean by $7 is that it's pretty cheap. And it came with miso soup. It was really hot when I got it, steaming hot, boiling hot! Volcano hot! That kind of hot. Well, really hot. So I took a little sip and it was still hot, so I kept blowing and sipping and blowing and sipping and when I got done I felt full because it was so much miso soup. And then I started drinking it out of the bowl and for some reason it made me burp. And then my stomach felt full, and it felt really gooey and so I went to the bathroom. And then I felt better. It was just a lot of miso soup I guess.

Warning: Never get too much miso soup at this place. Because their bowls are huge and hot!

Make sure to go to Sakura Hibachi Express because I really like that restaurant. Get steak hibachi and their crawfish sushi is very good. You should also try that. Now make sure to catch the next segment of Food Adventures with Mazy Hanson!