At the moment, I am reading up on some backlogged emails from a mailing list for one of the professional organizations I belong to. More important than that, however, is the fact that I feel absolutely fantastic. Why’s that? Because tonight I had one of the best meals I’ve had in recent memory.
My mother, father, and I went out for supper at a local Japanese restaurant, Osaka by name, that is located in a group of smaller businesses about 6 miles from my house and about 4 miles south of Columbia proper.
Let me tell you this much – I am still basking in the gustatorial afterglow of that meal. I had a 21 oz Kirin, squid and seaweed salad, and a selection of sushi and sashimi that would make any great appreciator of comestibles go weak at the knees.
We usually just think of eating as something we do, not necessarily any more exciting than breathing or going to the bathroom. Unlike breathing and going to the bathroom, though, eating is something that can take us on great adventures that have the potential to expand the mind, palatte, and spirit in general. Follow the same patterns with anything, and you’ll eventually find yoruself more or less bored with it. And so it is with eating. Break the cycle in a particularly notable way, however, and your outlook may improve considerably.
The squid salad was amazing. The toro and unagi were divine. The Kirin was as good as ever. It was the sort of meal that you eat, savor hugely while doing so, and then after it’s all over just sit contentedly and remember it pleasantly.
God forbid I ever have much in the way of extra cash when I’m in Japan – I’ll spend all my time eating.
