Sunday, July 24, 2005
602 North Dale Mabry Highway
Tampa, FL 33609
Went to a Korean sushi restaurant Matoi. Used to be called Sam Oh Jung back in the day, but I'd never been there when it was Sam Oh Jung anyway. We went in and to our surprise it was TC Choy's Asian Bistro's old sushi chef, Hide. He seemed genuinely glad to see our group and went out of his way to hang out with us. Of course, he was busy only watching TV when we came in.
The food was overall good and average priced. About $20 per person. Well, it was Hide's sushi we had anyway so it should be at least equal quality to what I'm used to at the Bistro. They make a big deal out of the "best sushi in the bay" thing - don't know if that was before or after Hide. The Korean stuff was alright too though less variety in the little dishes of stuff than at Sa-ri-one. The galbi was good and was recommended to us by Hide. The chop chae was so-so; they used bell peppers in it. Never seen that before.
Had conch, mmm.... conch.
Oh, conch. What was my life before you?
I read some reviews on it already and it seems to get good reviews on the service. Maybe they were by white people because as the only group of all asians in the restaurant, we got sub-par service. White folks sitting in the booths seemed to get better service. To my surprise, while we were ordering, the waitress actually said, "Hurry up!" I would have been offended if I didn't find it so funny. As expected, it's the kind of place where they try to take the food away from you when you are still halfway through it.
We had a choice of the waitress who was mean and the one that was less mean. As we were leaving they decided to be a little friendlier. Maybe they thought we would forget that they were really bad waitresses, and might write a blog about it. They even mustered up the gumption to say byebye.
By the way, isn't it cool that I can post images on the blog now?
Tampa, FL 33609
Went to a Korean sushi restaurant Matoi. Used to be called Sam Oh Jung back in the day, but I'd never been there when it was Sam Oh Jung anyway. We went in and to our surprise it was TC Choy's Asian Bistro's old sushi chef, Hide. He seemed genuinely glad to see our group and went out of his way to hang out with us. Of course, he was busy only watching TV when we came in.
The food was overall good and average priced. About $20 per person. Well, it was Hide's sushi we had anyway so it should be at least equal quality to what I'm used to at the Bistro. They make a big deal out of the "best sushi in the bay" thing - don't know if that was before or after Hide. The Korean stuff was alright too though less variety in the little dishes of stuff than at Sa-ri-one. The galbi was good and was recommended to us by Hide. The chop chae was so-so; they used bell peppers in it. Never seen that before.Had conch, mmm.... conch.
Oh, conch. What was my life before you?
I read some reviews on it already and it seems to get good reviews on the service. Maybe they were by white people because as the only group of all asians in the restaurant, we got sub-par service. White folks sitting in the booths seemed to get better service. To my surprise, while we were ordering, the waitress actually said, "Hurry up!" I would have been offended if I didn't find it so funny. As expected, it's the kind of place where they try to take the food away from you when you are still halfway through it.
We had a choice of the waitress who was mean and the one that was less mean. As we were leaving they decided to be a little friendlier. Maybe they thought we would forget that they were really bad waitresses, and might write a blog about it. They even mustered up the gumption to say byebye.
By the way, isn't it cool that I can post images on the blog now?
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