Holy crap, the 3 I listed are also placed together on that kabuto menu.

Aside from those 3, I would personally get multiples of the bafun uni as bafun uni is the pinnacle of uni.

If I were not getting the omakase and ordering ala cart. I would get 3 pieces of tuna of increasing fat and price. Maybe zuke, chu Toro, Hagashi Toro. Also get everything from the uni line down to the aori-ika line.

Would also start with a leaner white fish like the ma-tai. Round out with a stronger oily silver skin fish like kohada or saba. End with the "dessert" pieces of anago
and tamago.

Thats 15 pieces which hits right around the full but not stuffed range for me.

I'm a sushi snob for sure, but never cared for salmon either.

Medai, Hotate, Hamachi, Uni and Chu-Toro are my typical go tos that I always enjoy. Kuruma Ebi as well, but I've never seen it outside of Japan.

Kuruma ebi doesn't really travel well as it needs to be live at time of service.

Mal, take note of the amoeba wisdom.

because i like your style i'd like to up my donation to $40. it's the same amount i bought out bighurt for his preposterous blazer bet a few months ago. i've thoroughly enjoyed all the things you two have brought to all the food based forums over the years and it would make me more than happy to pay it back. just PM me your paypal info and let me pay for part of your Kabuto experience.

I had sockeye salmon at a place in Seattle that was delicious, but salmon can be very hit or miss. In particular, if you get it at a place like Mitsuwa or Marukai, it can be pretty meh. At our regular in SF, the owner will occasionally give us salmon belly and it's really nice if you like oily.

Favorite fish in general is kanpachi/amberjack, but it's not traditional and can give you ciguatera.

My wife and I tend more toward the white fishes, hirame, tai, medai, shima aji, aji, etc. We'll still get tuna occasionally (moreso toro when the mood strikes). Another non-traditional one that can be quite good is albacore (I've seen it called shiro maguro, literally white tuna, but also I've seen escolar called that, which can result in some pretty spectacular distress if you're sensitive to it, so it's a good idea to ask)

I haven't heard of hardly any of the fish mentioned last several posts. I have found I don't like albacore in my sushi proceedings. That and scallops is it off the top of my head. Looove cooked scallops.

One quick measure of the quality of a place is if their Saba is good.

It's extremely easy to F up and it will taste and smell really fishy unless the place is top notch.

Just wanted to bump the menu pic so its on the same page as the Kabuto ordering rec/discussion

You get one piece each for listed dollar amount?

premium silky fatty tuna omg

I very much appreciate the sentiment, but I cannot accept.

Thank you everyone. Definitely getting the omakase and will be trying some other things based on recs here.

I will come hungry and leave not.

If I was adding on, I would want things that are difficult/impossible to find at my regular sushi spots. I wouldn't order any salmon/akami/o-toro/hotate/etc.

If they have wakaremi/triangle you should get it. Not something you will find very often as it's a relatively tiny cut of a whole tuna. Or other less common cuts of tuna like jabara/belly.

Good uni is hard to find. You can't freeze it without significantly compromising quality, unlike most seafood. I would trust that Kabuto has good uni.

Ikura is always a fun first experience, if you haven't had it before.

I wouldn't worry about taking a picture of everything I got. Maybe if there's an especially pretty piece of kohada. And cooked dishes, which in some cases may even be preferable to wait a minute before eating. But mostly I would be focusing on shoveling nigiri into my mouth as soon as they come out. That is the polite way of doing it.

The first rule of triangle is, you do not talk about triangle.

Go chopsticks or straight hands?

I find hands to be the best tool for eating nigiri while chopsticks are the best tool for eating sashimi.

Hand rolls tell you what to eat them with right in the name.

Yes, nigiri is meant to be eaten with hands.

these are all great and I would add to them:

sayori (half-beak)
masu (ocean trout)
sea bream

as absolute must orders anytime you see them on the menu


I am not even joking I would literally get one of everything then double up on your favs.

don't sleep on chu toro, while o-toro gets all the love the chu toro is often the most delicious tuna u can get.

Can't say I've been more invested in someone else's sushi than right now.

The VicariouSushi

Lol...just rolls off the tongue.

lol, I love smooshing words together.

Is it sushi o'clock yet?

he has the early seating so the fun starts around 5:30 local time. will likely take a couple of hours.

Update: I have a bar seat