I had yummy sushi for lunch. Today's choice was two different kinds of rolls...Toro with green onion, and inside-out Yellowtail with cucumber, avocado, and spicy sauce. They were both so good! Noble Fish is this small Japanese grocery store near my work, which has a tiny sushi bar/café set up in the back. Anyone who knows sushi around here agrees that they have the best, and also the best prices. Daily, the chefs prepare small plastic boxes with sushi roll favorites. They are quick and easy to grab for lunch. I love the eel with cucumber and the "acapulco rolls" (tuna, jalapeño, avocado). They also have a nice complete nigiri sampler box which includes tuna, salmon, eel, and shrimp among other pieces, with two futomaki rolls and six california rolls on the side. One of my co-workers, who got me hooked on this place and frequently accompanies me there for lunch, really likes the chirashi bowl they have. You can get a much bigger selection by sitting down to eat there, or by ordering it to go from the chefs.

They have so many interesting products that I am very curious about...but too nervous to try since I can't read most of the labels. I really need a guide in that store. One of my friends gave me a very pretty sake set with rice bowls and chopsticks which she told me she bought at Noble Fish. It is mainly black, decorated with a purple Asian floral pattern.

My sushi addiction started after I had been working at my job for a few weeks. Two of the guys I work with would go to Noble occasionly, one day they invited me. Now they've created a monster. For a while I would wake up in the morning craving sushi. It is so fresh and tasty, and it makes you feel so good. I have calmed my desire for it ALL THE TIME...but I still love it, and we eat it about once every two weeks at least. Since the start of all this...I have become so much more aware of the surprisingly numerous places to get sushi around here. Here, in landlocked (in terms of the ocean...great lakes don't count for sushi) Michigan! Although, I have noticed that most of the sushi joints are in one particular side of the metro Detroit area...northwest. Mainly in the more high-class communities of rich Oakland County...Royal Oak, Clawson, Rochester, etc. Oh well, I'm just happy they're here at all.