I’ve become friendly with the chef of my new local spot. Last night he made us an “off menu” treat. “Uni Shooter”: Uni, quail egg, ikura, ponzu and sweet sake. Yum!

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1. One of my favorite memories is becoming a friend with the local sushi spot when I lived in South Korea. He would test out new sashimi and sushi rolls on us for free. One night he even pretty much gave us a $30 roll for free just to get our opinion.

2. I would gobble that up because I love seafood shooters but it seems like a divisive topic round here.

3. Used to have this on the menu at the very first place I worked. Very delicious

4. I have a local sushi place I like to go, I walk in and they always yell Octopus Tigerbot!! Then hand me a bottle a soju on the house. I found that if I sit at the counter area, and offer drinks to the chefs as well, then they keep sharing the love. It’s great!

5. How about we stay on topic here. This is hardly sushi is it?

6. That’s a HUGE “shooter”. Are you supposed to take that all at once. or sip on it? With a whole quail egg and a dog shit sized piece of uni, and ikura and flowers? I could never get that down in a “shot”. And I love to drink and love sushi.

   There is also A LOT of sake in there. Nothing wrong with a lot of sake, but it makes this a VERY confusing dish. As a cold seafood soup this could work if you cut the sake with some dashi, let’s say. For starters.

   You can combine all these elements into a much smaller, more refined offering. Many places will do their “shooters” in traditional skinny shot glasses. But then, they are more like mini seafood cocktails than “shooters”. I’ve had some incredible ones with just oyster, oyster liquor, and a nice dab of uni on top. Incredible.

   This looks nasty to me, but if you love it that’s great!

7. What is the point of taking expensive and tasty ingredients and then sucking them down in 0.1 seconds and not even tasting it

8. For lack of a better term: do you chew this?

   Or at least let it sit on the tongue, maybe mush it against your palate or something?

9. 🤢🤢🤢🤢

10. Booger shot

11. Gross

12. I’m gonna say no thanks to a seafood shooter.