Odd experience at Osaka
Tonight we ordered sushi at Osaka in Chestnut Hill. The striped bass tasted moldy or mildewy. I've never encountered this before--it wasn't fishy, just smelled of mold. I thought maybe the daikon it was sitting on was moldy. When I complained the server brought me more, not on daikon, But the same smell/taste. Neither the manager nor the chefs could tell (or would admit??) that the fish tasted bad--they claimed it was a matter of personal preference. They deducted some from the bill. If they'd said, 'yeah, we think it tastes bad, sorry', I would have taken it as an accident and not held it against the restaurant. But if they can't tell--then why go there again? Has this ever happened to anyone else? I mean a "fresh" fish that tastes of mold or mildew? They claimed that striped bass tastes that way. If I'd been alone, I might have thought it was indeed a problem with my taste, or personal taste, but my husband tasted precisely the same thing, and he's Japanese, so he's been eating sushi all his life. I still wonder how it could be--my lastest theory is that their cutting board or storage area is moldy. And the idea that not one of them could tell--that's appalling. Or were they just stonewalling?
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I think they were embarrassed, but they sure didn't handle it gracefully. That;'s scary. did you both feel all right afterward? Maybe they were afraid you would sue them!
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re: myra
There is a certain odor similar to what you refer to that happens when the kitchen sterilizes their cookware, glasses and countertops (and even swabs their floors).
I have smelled that odor on water glasses when I have attempted to drink from them. It almost tastes like a dirty dishwater smell.
I suggest that the problem might have come from a countertop or dish on which the fish was placed for plating.
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