Sushi at Ru San's

Justin has been trying to get me to eat sushi for a while and I have resisted. He really enjoys sushi and really wanted me to try it.

A couple of months ago, I finally gave in. I tried a salmon tempura roll from Ru San’s in Atlanta (in Buckhead). It was tasty but not something I would eat all the time. It seems like they wrap cooked salmon (it appears to be cooked) around a thin strip of cream cheese, wrap that with Nori (dried seaweed paper), and then wrap all that with rice. After the roll is made, it is covered with tempura and fried. The roll is sliced and served with a spicy aioli sauce. It is delicious!

This weekend, Justin and I were talking about where to eat supper Saturday night and we ended up going to Ru San’s near Piedmont Park. I had the salmon tempura roll again and I tried the tempura cream cheese maki. The cream cheese roll looks like they wrap a thin strip of cream cheese with Nori and tempura fry it. Then they wrap that with rice and slice it. I like to dip mine in soy sauce. The cream cheese is so soft and warm from being fried. Yummo! This has to be something developed in the South since we’ll deep fry anything.

Justin likes the more authentic sushi – i.e. sushi that hasn’t been deep fried. He likes the Nigiri pieces (wad of rice topped with a piece of fish – there is probably more to it than this, but that’s what it looks like to me). He also likes the rolls that aren’t “inside out”. “Inside out” rolls have the rice on the outside instead of the Nori wrapper. He likes these more because they have less rice. There are probably other reasons too, but I think less rice is the main reason.

We decided to go back Sunday afternoon for late lunch/early supper. I had the same rolls from Saturday night. Justin ordered several pieces of Nigiri and one was topped with octopus. It wasn’t very appealing to me. Actually, I was disgusted by it, but he said it was delicious. I’ll take his word for it.

I’m working up the courage to eat something raw.