memoirs of a palate

MY HIRO





You’ve seen it all before. Honestly, I don’t think there's any way to even spice this up. Well. I take that back. I did switch up the order tonight. Meena stayed strong and hung in there with her usual. I decided to throw caution to the wind and abandon the maki combo route. I guess I'm just unpredictable like that (NOTE: That's actually completely untrue. I'm very predictable.).

Anyway, Meena did the:
- shrimp shumai
- chicken tempura roll
- spicy tuna crunch roll

Alec mixed it up with the:
- miso soup
- spicy tuna roll
- yellowtail and scallion roll

I can't lie - Hiro is pretty solid. I was really high on this other sushi delivery spot for a few months when we first moved to the East Village, but my allegiance may have shifted. My spicy tuna wasn't a mishmash of spicy mayo and tuna bits (which is typically the norm). My yellowtail was as good as it has ever been. I'm not sure why, but I was more impressed with Hiro last night than I usually am. Maybe it's because I was fresh from the gym and just ... ravenous. Who knows.