New owners, all new personnel.

Ordered chirashi today, and saw the (new) chef slicing up CUCUMBER -
the stuff that the worst of the sushi dives use as filler instead of
fish - and I thought that's it for S10 - but there was a lot of good
fresh fish, too, and some new stuff, too - one item I couldn't ID, so I
asked. It was little scallops with tiny roe on it. They are friendly!
Because I asked, the chef gave me a big bowl of 'em! I also asked if
they're gonna have fresh wasabi. Nope. Very few places have that, he
said, and he deemed it way too much trouble to grate, and hard to get
and expensive, too. Also, they added a bigger glop of uni than the old
S10 chef did, so...

wrote:

> New owners, all new personnel.


When did this happen? I haven't been there in a while.

Who are the new owners? Is it now related to any of the other places in
town, or are the new owners independent?

Are the slices of fish still gigantic?

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> Ordered chirashi today, and saw the (new) chef slicing up CUCUMBER -
> the stuff that the worst of the sushi dives use as filler instead of
> fish - and I thought that's it for S10 - but there was a lot of good
> fresh fish, too, and some new stuff, too - one item I couldn't ID, so
> I asked. It was little scallops with tiny roe on it. They are
> friendly! Because I asked, the chef gave me a big bowl of 'em! I
> also asked if they're gonna have fresh wasabi. Nope. Very few places
> have that, he said, and he deemed it way too much trouble to grate,
> and hard to get and expensive, too. Also, they added a bigger glop
> of uni than the old S10 chef did, so...

Ken Blake wrote:
> wrote:
>
> > New owners, all new personnel.
>
>
> When did this happen? I haven't been there in a while.



--- I've not been around Tucson all that much of late, but they seemed
to have been training a lot of new people there for a month or two, but
when I was in there Tuesday that was the first time all the old people
were all gone, including the good old head chef. I need to ask them
where he went.



>
> Who are the new owners? Is it now related to any of the other places in
> town, or are the new owners independent?




--- I don't know.





>
> Are the slices of fish still gigantic?





--- No.






>
> --
> Ken Blake
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
> > Ordered chirashi today, and saw the (new) chef slicing up CUCUMBER -
> > the stuff that the worst of the sushi dives use as filler instead of
> > fish - and I thought that's it for S10 - but there was a lot of good
> > fresh fish, too, and some new stuff, too - one item I couldn't ID, so
> > I asked. It was little scallops with tiny roe on it. They are
> > friendly! Because I asked, the chef gave me a big bowl of 'em! I
> > also asked if they're gonna have fresh wasabi. Nope. Very few places
> > have that, he said, and he deemed it way too much trouble to grate,
> > and hard to get and expensive, too.





--- But, I might add, he offered to special order it for me.






Also, they added a bigger glop
> > of uni than the old S10 chef did, so...

wrote:


Thanks.

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> Ken Blake wrote:
>> wrote:
>>
>>> New owners, all new personnel.
>>
>>
>> When did this happen? I haven't been there in a while.
>
>
>
> --- I've not been around Tucson all that much of late, but they seemed
> to have been training a lot of new people there for a month or two,
> but when I was in there Tuesday that was the first time all the old
> people were all gone, including the good old head chef. I need to
> ask them where he went.
>
>
>
>>
>> Who are the new owners? Is it now related to any of the other places
>> in town, or are the new owners independent?
>
>
>
>
> --- I don't know.
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Are the slices of fish still gigantic?
>
>
>
>
>
> --- No.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>
>>
>>> Ordered chirashi today, and saw the (new) chef slicing up CUCUMBER -
>>> the stuff that the worst of the sushi dives use as filler instead of
>>> fish - and I thought that's it for S10 - but there was a lot of good
>>> fresh fish, too, and some new stuff, too - one item I couldn't ID,
>>> so I asked. It was little scallops with tiny roe on it. They are
>>> friendly! Because I asked, the chef gave me a big bowl of 'em! I
>>> also asked if they're gonna have fresh wasabi. Nope. Very few
>>> places have that, he said, and he deemed it way too much trouble to
>>> grate, and hard to get and expensive, too.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- But, I might add, he offered to special order it for me.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Also, they added a bigger glop
>>> of uni than the old S10 chef did, so...

On 15 Feb 2006 16:19:34 -0800, wrote:

>New owners, all new personnel.
>
>Ordered chirashi today, and saw the (new) chef slicing up CUCUMBER -
>the stuff that the worst of the sushi dives use as filler instead of
>fish - and I thought that's it for S10 - but there was a lot of good
>fresh fish, too, and some new stuff, too - one item I couldn't ID, so I
>asked. It was little scallops with tiny roe on it. They are friendly!
> Because I asked, the chef gave me a big bowl of 'em! I also asked if
>they're gonna have fresh wasabi. Nope. Very few places have that, he
>said, and he deemed it way too much trouble to grate, and hard to get
>and expensive, too. Also, they added a bigger glop of uni than the old
>S10 chef did, so...

I'm happy for you. It sounds like you've got a good place to still go
to. Maybe better!

Something to be aware of is that the "17th street market" off Park Avenue
has finally started carrying Sushi grade fresh fish at their fish counter.
They also have frozen squid, eel, other special items brought in from Asia
in the frozen counter.

I had some really good Tuna last night and will enjoy some Yellow Tail today
:-D

My Sushi doesn't look so good yet but, it sure does taste good. Not bad for
~$13 to $15 a pound for the fish. It's almost worth a drive into town just
for that fish.

I'm happy for you. It sounds like you've got a good place to still go
to. Maybe better!

________________________

Oh, I don't know. i don't think they'll always be giving me a lot of
free stuff, but I bet that CUCUMBER is part of their permanent chirashi
master recipe now. There oughta be a sign posted outside good sushi
joints with a circle and a picture of a cucumber inside it and a red
line drawn through it! Cucumber is OK in its way, but if I want to eat
a cucumber I'll go in a supermarket and buy one for a quarter - and I
prefer my cucumbers NOT to be cut up in fancy curley-q's, so they take
up even more space. (PS Persian cucumbers are excellent!) What if I
just say, "No cucumber, please."?

Oh, good. I haven't been there in quite a while. It's an interesting
place. Best fish store that I know of in Tucson - though a far cry
from Lee Lee's and 99 Ranch Market up north.

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> Oh, good. I haven't been there in quite a while. It's an interesting
> place. Best fish store that I know of in Tucson -


17th Street Market? It's *one* of the best fish stores. Others are the
Rincon Market (Yuri, who used to be the fish man at 17th St, went there when
he left 17th St., but I'm not sure if he's still there) and AJs.

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When I talked the staff at the 17th street market, they indicated they were
in the process of really upgrading their fish selections with a specific
emphasis on Sushi. They were not specific as to when the complete
transformation of their offering would be complete but, I think it is
certainly well worth a phone call if you are driving into to town.

I tried Rincon Market once but, I must have caught it on an off day because
it seem pretty average. Of course, I tend to go to Roma Imports and the
17th Street Market first when I go to town.

What are "Lee Lee's and 99 Ranch Market"? How far "up north" are they? Are
they in Phoenix?



"Ken Blake" > wrote in message
...
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, good. I haven't been there in quite a while. It's an interesting
>> place. Best fish store that I know of in Tucson -
>
>
> 17th Street Market? It's *one* of the best fish stores. Others are the
> Rincon Market (Yuri, who used to be the fish man at 17th St, went there
> when he left 17th St., but I'm not sure if he's still there) and AJs.
>
> --
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>

Anonymous wrote:

> When I talked the staff at the 17th street market, they indicated
> they were in the process of really upgrading their fish selections
> with a specific emphasis on Sushi. They were not specific as to when
> the complete transformation of their offering would be complete but,
> I think it is certainly well worth a phone call if you are driving
> into to town.
> I tried Rincon Market once but, I must have caught it on an off day
> because it seem pretty average. Of course, I tend to go to Roma
> Imports and the 17th Street Market first when I go to town.
>
> What are "Lee Lee's and 99 Ranch Market"? How far "up north" are
> they? Are they in Phoenix?


Sorry, no idea. I've never heard of either.

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> "Ken Blake" > wrote in message
> ...
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, good. I haven't been there in quite a while. It's an
>>> interesting place. Best fish store that I know of in Tucson -
>>
>>
>> 17th Street Market? It's *one* of the best fish stores. Others are
>> the Rincon Market (Yuri, who used to be the fish man at 17th St,
>> went there when he left 17th St., but I'm not sure if he's still
>> there) and AJs. --
>> Ken Blake
>> Please reply to the newsgroup

> What are "Lee Lee's and 99 Ranch Market"? How far "up north" are they? Are
> they in Phoenix?




Yeah, up in the Phoenix megalopolis - both enormous Asian markets,
especially Lee Lee's, which is in Chandler on Warner and Dobson, and 99
is in the Chinese Cultural Center, Phoenix, just south of Rt 202 on 44
Av. I'm surprised you guys don't know about them. Worth a trip up to
stock up on Asian stuff.

wrote:

>> What are "Lee Lee's and 99 Ranch Market"? How far "up north" are
>> they? Are they in Phoenix?
>
>
>
>
> Yeah, up in the Phoenix megalopolis - both enormous Asian markets,
> especially Lee Lee's, which is in Chandler on Warner and Dobson, and
> 99 is in the Chinese Cultural Center, Phoenix, just south of Rt 202
> on 44 Av. I'm surprised you guys don't know about them. Worth a
> trip up to stock up on Asian stuff.


It's a long trip. I hardly ever go to Phoenix for any reason. I can get
almost any asian foods I want at the 17th St. Market.

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Ken -

There's another interesting - unusual! - Tucson Chinese market on
E.22nd, by the defunct We Went Wong joint. Have you been there?

wrote:

> There's another interesting - unusual! - Tucson Chinese market on
> E.22nd, by the defunct We Went Wong joint. Have you been there?


G&L? Yes, numbers of times. It's OK, but their selection is much poorer than
17th St.

There's also Grantstone Market, on the corner of Grant and Stone.

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"Ken Blake" > wrote in message
...
> wrote:
>
>> There's another interesting - unusual! - Tucson Chinese market on
>> E.22nd, by the defunct We Went Wong joint. Have you been there?
>
>
> G&L? Yes, numbers of times. It's OK, but their selection is much poorer
> than 17th St.
>
> There's also Grantstone Market, on the corner of Grant and Stone.
>
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I was disappointed in G&L myself. I heard some good things but, I didn't
understand it myself.

There is a good place to get rice just north of the Main Gate and Davis
Monthan. I think it's called Sun Oriental Market. It is like the 17th
Street market Asian aisles, only smaller. I stop by there for rice because
they have such a good selection of 3 to 10 pound sacks of rice. A 25 to 50
pound sack is just too much for one person ;-)

Here's the latest poop on the once-great S10 in Tucson. It's been
bought up by the same guy who owns Sushi Hama on Oracle Rd., not
Japanese. It was sold in December.

New and different chefs there again today - friendly but inept. I said
"no cucumber" so i got a lot of shredded daikon instead. I guess if
they're gonna cut corners they're gonna cut corners.

The two former owners (also the chefs) are trying to acquire their own
restaurants, one in Tucson, one in Tempe.

wrote:

> Here's the latest poop on the once-great S10 in Tucson. It's been
> bought up by the same guy who owns Sushi Hama on Oracle Rd., not
> Japanese. It was sold in December.


Sushi Hama? Isn't that the all-you-can-eat place where they throw the
oshibori to the customers?

I've eaten there a couple of times. It wasn't great, but not bad. Is Sushi
Ten now doing AYCE too?

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> New and different chefs there again today - friendly but inept. I
> said "no cucumber" so i got a lot of shredded daikon instead. I
> guess if they're gonna cut corners they're gonna cut corners.
>
> The two former owners (also the chefs) are trying to acquire their own
> restaurants, one in Tucson, one in Tempe.

Sushi Hama? Isn't that the all-you-can-eat place where they throw the
oshibori to the customers?

--- Don't know. Have no desire to know either judging by what they've
done to my old favorite here. Phooey.


I've eaten there a couple of times. It wasn't great, but not bad. Is
Sushi
Ten now doing AYCE too?

---They might as well...


--- Speaking of AYCE joints - I'd never go to one that cut corners by
putting little fish and lots of rice and demanding that you consume all
the rice.



-- ww