When: Lunch - November 3
Occasion: N.A.
Wine: None
Website: N.A.
So blogging, as it turns out is a pain, well no, it's not a pain, I just find it really hard to come up with synonyms for delicious. I find myself continually wanting to write this was delicious, this was also delicious, this too was delicious. That's the engineer in me, I have the wordsmithery of a mudskipper. I have been taking lots of photos and I may well pump in a few overdue reviews but who knows, they may well contain excessive amounts of the word delicious and might be point form.
So I'm working in Brisbane during the week and one friday afternoon whilst heading to the airport I walked past a queue of people so large I thought they were waiting for Splendour in the Grass tix. Nope, it seems LR Sushi is the flavour of the month up here and a queue four shops long is the norm.
After some googling help provided by MK I found another bloggers post of the take away and the handy information that they had a second, less busy store.
I don't queue for food and I definitely don't queue for sushi, but I stopped being a princess and went along. There I stood, 14th in line and started the stop watch. I was at the counter and being served in 3 minutes and 2 seconds and was out of there inside the 4 minute mark.
The selection is great but I couldn't tell you all I saw, I simply pounced on the first three that caught my eye. With the pressure of the line behind I felt a bit like I was ordering soup from the famous nazi. So a classic salmon and avocado, a tuna and sesame and the ever reliable crispy chicken with avocado were loaded into a plastic container, along with a generous dollop of mayo at my request. I grabbed a handful of packaged wasabi, ginger and some soy fish and was away.
The salmon and avocado was simply fantastic, really soft creamy pink salmon flesh, in fact much more pink than the orange tints I'm used to (non farm salmon maybe? no carrots in the farm food? A different salmon species?). A very generous slice it was too. Moving hungrily on to the tuna and sesame...outstanding...one of the better california rolls I've ever been treated to. Again a generous serve of fish but the sesame flavours just worked so well to complement.
Disappointingly my excitement about the freshly delivered tray of crispy chicken and avo was misguided. The chicken had just been fried and the whole roll was warmed slightly...this is perhaps not a bad thing but it made the crumb soggy and wasn't great. These also are made without mayo, so make sure you ask for some if you can't go without.
I'll definitely be going back for some more of these fat and filling california rolls at good price, despite the queue.
