I think it’s fair to say that I have had my fair share of sushi in this great city. You can have sashimi and rolls, deepfried to live and everything inbetween and it’s usually available at a corner near you (or maximum 15 minutes away, courtesy of the local delivery man). I have never had the experience that we had this evening, though.

John and I are both still battling with my cold and his man flu so we made a pact to eat out or order in every night this week, to ease the burden of cooking on us both. Also, it’s been so hot that the idea of  spending any more time than strictly necessary in the kitchen fills us both with dread and horor. So last night we had Indian at a local restaurant, the night before we ordered some Thai and the night before that we had burgers at our favorite outdoor spot, Pier I.

Tonight we decided to go for sushi. We have a great service here called Seamlessweb.com. It’s an online food ordering service and they promise delivery from about 50 different restaurants within 15 – 45 minutes. That’s my kind of take out! We always order from the same reliable sushi place, so tonight we decided to be daring and try something different.

The warning bells should have gone off when we saw the four $$$$ signs next to this new place called, Sushi of Gari, but we figured it’s sushi. How bad can it be? Right? Now we have the sushi order down to a T. Between John and I we usually order five rolls and sometimes we’ll throw in an order of Edamame or a soup, but we’ve figured out that five rolls fills both of us up with a couple of pieces to spare. Our standard sushi order usually comes to about $35, give or take a few.

So tonight’s order was no different. We ordered five pretty standard options and didn’t think too much of the fact that it said ‘Per Piece’ above the description. I said to John that I’m sure it’s just a language thing – they must mean ‘Per ROLL’. Well, after waiting 45 minutes, our rumbling tummies were so happy when the delivery man finally rang the bell. Only to deliver this:

$35 dollars for five squished pieces of mediocre sushi. Yuck! I was so upset by having been done in like that it almost spoiled my mood completely. Lucky for me, John quickly got our standard order in and within 15 minutes delicious, cheap, fresh sushi was delivered to our door. That’s more my style!