Fuji's Grill & Sushi Restaurant Review

While trying to decide where to eat lunch the other day, I remembered that a new Japanese restaurant had recently opened its doors in the suite next to where I work. After listening to their constant construction and renovation of the building through the walls at work, it was hard to believe that when the place finally opened, I almost forgot about it. As a lover of Japanese food, of course I wanted to try out this new place.
So my boyfriend and I decided to venture over and check it out. First, the proprietor is a very friendly and helpful man, which is a big plus in any restaurant. The layout of the restaurant was not at all what I expected. Not your typical sushi bar or Japanese style. It was more like an upscale Bennihana's - with better food and lower prices.
I ordered green tea which was delicious and served very hot. The lunch menu was not very extensive, but there was enough selection. The lunch meals ranged from about $6 to $10. They included some type of meat or seafood, yakisoba noodles, vegetables, rice, and a house salad. Unlike some Japanese restaurants, you receive a reasonable portion of meat, and your plate is not mostly filled with cabbage, but instead with filling and yummy noodles.
Their choices for meat include chicken (white or dark meat), tenderloin steak or New York steak, calamari steak, shrimp, tofu, or vegetarian. I ordered the calamari, my boyfriend ordered the steak. True to the word "Grill" in their name, they grill up your food right in front of you on the hibachi that is built into the middle of the table. If you don't want to sit so close to the hot oil, you can choose to sit in the booth, but where's the fun in that? We had front & center seats for the fantastic little show of food preparation that the cook performs.
The calamari was very tasty, not too chewy or too much of a fishy taste - very fresh. In fact, the entire meal was delicious. My boyfriend also claimed his steak was superb, which it must have been, since I did not get to snag a piece to try.
I'll have to return to do a full review of the sushi. We ordered one plate of salmon nigiri, which I must say was extremely fresh and nicely presented. Salmon nigiri is my favorite sushi, but they offer many different kinds. Everything you would expect at any good sushi place, plus many "Fuji's Special" creations. Plus, Monday through Thursday, they offer a 35% discount on some of the sushi plates. The prices are reasonable to begin with - $4 to $5 for most nigiri plates, $5 to $12 for rolls, and $13 for 8-piece sashimi.
There are currently 3 locations of Fuji's Grill & Sushi: 1 in Vancouver, 1 in Sherwood, and the newly opened one in Beaverton (corner of Bethany & Cornell). They have a website www.gotfujis.com, where their menu is listed.
Overall I would give this place 4 of 5 stars!

Jewlery

I'm not that much of a jewelry person, but I found this new site with some pretty nice stuff. Prices range from dirt cheap for nice things to fairly expensive, for nicer things. They are all handmade, and very beautiful. Overall it's a nice site. It's called Mjulian and it's on Etsy.com. The seller is local to Portland too!

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5528687

I don't have my ears pierced (never got around to it) but if I did I would so buy these cute elephant earrings!
















I'm also madly in love with this:

Christmas Day Post

I do plan to update this with fashion-related or interesting articles, but for now I just enjoy having a place to rant.
The snow is sort-of-melting-but-still-coming-down, a way that is very annoying if you are trying to plan a day. But we did get out today to our traditional Christmas dinner spot, a Chinese restaurant called House of Louie. We managed to get an early dinner at 3pm, but there are plenty of leftovers should we get hungry later.
The rest of the day I plan on sitting and drinking tea, and reading. My perfect sort of day anyway, when I can't get out to go shopping.
Tomorrow I am venturing out to work in the slushy snow and ice down in the valley. I am glad to be going back to work, but at the same time, I realize that I wish my little extended vacation had lasted longer, even though it was not always fun to be stuck at home. (Well, there is always the chance that another foot of snow and ice drops overnight...hahaha).
Well, I will keep this short since no one wants to read my inane ramblings. Happy Holidays to you and yours!

First Day Blogging

I started this blog mainly because I got snowed in, and have been stuck in the house for 4 days now. This is helping me keep my sanity, and not go hang myself in a tree. Of course, hanging myself would not be necessary or even plausible, since all of the branches are frozen. I could just stand under a tree for an hour or two, until a big branch broke off on my head.
But enough of ways to kill myself. I will introduce myself instead. My name is Tina and this blog is about my life, and a lot of the things I like such as animals, fashion, makeup, movies, books, cooking, technology (cell phones and computers mostly), and wilderness survival. An odd mix to be sure, but I am an odd person.
To begin this day, I saw 2 feet of snow on the ground and decided to sleep in. Then I had to get up and shovel snow. After a few hours of that, it may finally be possible that I might escape my home tomorrow, provided my little Hyundai can make it out of the driveway, and not end up in another ditch. That happened at the beginning of this storm, last week.
Basically, this has been a boring day of snow shoveling so I will not say much more about it. Hopefully I will have more interesting things to blog about in future.

Thanks for reading!