i woke up today feeling kind of like i was getting a cold. nothing major, but still, there was something there. in brooklyn, if this feeling would hit, i'd head to the starbucks across from my office for a green tea latte. ah, yes. sweet, sweet, (sugary), matcha fun. what the green powdered stuff didn't knock out, i'd fend off by heading to the sushi place across from my office (note: i didn't work in a big or busy part of brooklyn, but we did have EXCELLENT sushi and coffee) to order the best spicy crunch salmon roll on the planet. i have no medical information whatsoever to back up the claim that "salmon rolls help kill a cold before it takes over your body" but there was something about the raw protein of it all that had me convinced i was on the mend.
so today when i started to feel a cold coming on, i was a bit lost. there's no starbucks to be found (literally, i haven't found one anywhere nearby at all). and as for sushi?
in our part of vermont, there's two places that i've found. two. that's not many for a girl who ate sushi at least once a week in brooklyn. one is called "shin la japanese restaurant" and it's in brattleboro. we went there once and it was a really festive night in brattleboro, at the beginning of october. everyone was out - brattleboro does a thing called "first fridays" where on the first friday of each month, the local businesses and galleries have special late hours and draw in new customers (or, celebrate the existing ones?). it was warm out and many were partaking, and like us, many had decided sushi would be a good option. well, we went, we ordered. and... drumroll please (mmm. drum roll - that sounds delicious, what's in that one?) ......we were disappointed! it was mostly rice and what fish was in there was stale. ...i'm convinced that miso in brooklyn was so delicious that it ruined me.
the following week we went to panda north, a chinese restaurant that i knew also had sushi. it wasn't terrible. it was on par with non-miso-in-dumbo sushi in brooklyn. okay, that will do. it's not poetry, but it'll do.
will i find a miso in dumbo equivalent? i doubt it. but that's okay; brooklyn's there for that.
anyway, i woke up today and i needed sushi. my made-up cold remedy. garret was headed to brattleboro anyway to get a haircut, and so i mentioned casually (read: stated that i wanted) it might be fun to get takeout sushi. my non-money-efficient dream came true when around 5:15 garret called to ask me what i'd like. panda north (the better of the two options) it was.
so, we had a sushi takeout dinner! we ate right out of the containers with throw away chopsticks that came wrapped in red paper. it all felt very brooklyn... except that this one came in our own car and travelled 30 minutes with garret to get to me. not quite the same as calling and having it show up 10 minutes later in the hand of a stranger, but it was delicious nonetheless.
and mysteriously... my cold seems to be gone...
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| sushi from panda north in brattleboro, vt. |
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| sushi from panda north in brattleboro, vt. |
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