"Kaiten-zushi is a sushi restaurant where the plates with the sushi are placed on a rotating conveyor belt that winds through the restaurant and moves past every table and counter seat. Customers may place special orders, but most simply pick their selections from a steady stream of fresh sushi moving along the conveyor belt. The final bill is calculated based on the number and type of plates of the consumed sushi. Besides conveyor belts, some restaurants use a fancier form of presentation such as miniature wooden "sushi boats" traveling small canals, or miniature locomotive cars" (Wikipedia, obviously).
There is a restaurant on our side of town that is famous for having the longest sushi train in our prefecture. Naoko took Amanda and I, along with the rest of the fam, out for dinner one night and we got the low down on this particular restaurant.
To the right:
& to the left:
Amanda & I taking in all that is kaiten zushi & making videos in the process (with a little help from my sweet Misaki) ...
Misaki took over the video camera & her skills are about as good as mine :)
In this video one of the chef's does tell us that the sushi train is 140 meters long and the sushi takes 40 minutes to make one rotation. Whoa.
Amanda & her 8 plates (most of which were shrimp):
Misaki & I with our plate stack & the strange corn/mayo/rice/seaweed that I couldn't bring myself to finish eating on the top:
"The bill is calculated by counting the number and type of plates of the consumed sushi. Plates with different color, pattern, or shape have different prices, usually ranging from 100 yen to 500 yen. The cost of the different plates is shown on signboards or posters in the restaurant. In general, cheap items come on plain plates, and the level of plate decoration is related to the price. The most expensive items tend to come on golden colored plates. Expensive items may also be placed on two plates at the same time, with the price being the sum of the price tag associated with the individual plates. Some conveyor belt sushi restaurant chains, such as Kappa Sushi or Otaru Zushi, have a fixed price of 100 yen for every plate. This is similar to the phenomenon of 100-yen shops. A button above the conveyor belt can be used to call the attendants to count the plates. Some restaurants also have a counting machine where the customer drops the plates so that they can be counted automatically" (onagi).Our tables after dinner:
That's a lot of plates of sushi, eh?
much love
much love
-tara-
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