Eat to live, don’t live to eat

Isn’t it funny that great restaurants always serve you something weird and absurd like seaweed-foam-on-a-cracker.

I think that they don’t have the balls to compete on the food that people could legitimately compare. If you order the seaweed-foam-on-a-cracker, how do you know whether they were done properly or not? You have no fucking idea. Because you’ve never had them before.

I don’t know what a caviar-and-foam-on-this-fancy-piece-of-fish tastes like, but if you give me a  chicken rice, boy I’m going to tell you whether this cheeseburger’s better than another.

I think people too easily and too often sacrifice excellence and those things which we recognize and are most common because they are the most delicious.

Instead, they take the easy way out, trying to make weird shit, that no one loves, but tastes okay.

Great sushi restaurants offering Omakase are different. They actually have the balls to go head to head with the most commons foods around.