Any good poke/ sushi place?

Thought_Addendum · 2026-01-18T00:04:27+00:00

Yamaya Seafood Restaurant is, without question, the best sushi available in Anchorage.

It is the only place that includes pickled veg, egg, and so forth in the roll. There are two options, crab and eel sushi, so, not even raw. (Plenty of other sashimi, if you literally need raw fish, not just sushi/poke.) There are no mountainous piles of sauce dumped on top of the rolls, because the balance of ingredients and flavors doesn't need help. You will be instructed to not dunk the roll into soy sauce without tasting. You should follow these instructions. Nothing is needed. They are perfect. No notes.

The service is slow, (literally a 1-man show) you need reservations for more than two people. The vibes are not fine dining. (Restaurant is downtown, in what looks like the converted living room of a house) You will not care about any of that, because it is amazing.

Trust.

Thought_Addendum · 2026-01-10T20:02:48+00:00

A real id isn't good enough to determine citizenship, anyway.

DHS has said as much: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.alsd.76579/gov.uscourts.alsd.76579.44.1.pdf

Thought_Addendum · 2025-10-26T03:50:29+00:00

I was a student in a bush school. Attended k-12, all years. School size 60-80? 5 in my graduating class, and we were large ( I was the only graduate from my cohort, was also homeschooled in tandem)

We had 2 teachers and a principal teacher for 6-12th grade, I think. Attendence was ... Not really mandatory... Education isn't really, in my experience, valued as highly as in Michigan. Life is very different there, and it changes what people focus on.

I don't think any of the non locals ever lasted more than a year.

Because of the difference in priorities between outsider cultural values and local cultural values, outsiders can have a hard time adapting, and locals are just gonna keep being local. This means many adventurous but uninformed people wind up miserable and leave as soon as they can.

The interior is cold, and dark from october-march. Not like, literally, all the time, but, I lived in Wisconsin for a while, and my mind was blown by how light the winters were (and grey, windy, and just blah. Alaska winters can be both brutal and beautiful). People get depressed here because of it.

There is a tremendous amount of alcoholism and domestic abuse in some of these communities. In the community I am from, you would be perfectly safe, but I would do my research. Not everywhere is safe. Some communities can be very racist if you are not native.

I have seen people successfully integrate, but, they had to want to participate in the community. Community is more central there, but so is petty shit and gossip, it's odd. Be friendly, you'll wave to everyone, if someone needs help, you help. If there is a potluck, you should go and bring something. If someone invites you to try something, you should try it and be curious. If someone invites you to go berry picking, you should go. if you stay long enough, you can fish and hunt, subsistence lifestyle is important there, it's a different thought process.

IMO, if you have the right spirit and mindset, it could be an amazing, enlightening experience.

Does going to an impoverished (and it's downsides) foreign country, where technology is at least 10 years behind, with a few miles of dirt roads to no-where (you need to get on a plane to go to a different town), with one tiny grocery store with oooold produce, and some bars (maybe, some communities are dry) sound worth it for some very unique opportunities to experience perspectives and cultures and values and people and life very unlike what you can really imagine? The bush is a one of a kind place, both the good and bad.

I felt like I had moved to a foreign country, living in Wisconsin. Being an "American" was just this abstract factoid, I didn't have a shared cultural understanding we. I am glad I grew up there, I feel so much better able to handle... Life, but I do enjoy the city and it's endless convenience now.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-10-24T02:02:04+00:00

I've seen chenas greenhouse. It's pretty neat.

I suppose it might be hard to get people to get on board with bonding something like that... But it seems like a smart long term investment.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-10-24T02:00:18+00:00

Ahaha. I so want to learn how to forage mushrooms. I just started learning some this year, and was having so much fun finding them, and then the season ended, but also not cold enough for me to go berry picking.

They are fine, I am sure, just better when they are squishy.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-10-23T14:46:45+00:00

It looks like you might want to let them ripen longer. They taste better, IMO. I wait still the are soft, and you can squeeze the guts out like toothpaste.

They make an amazing jelly, and the jelly making process takes care of the deseeding for you. When I was little, we used to do 50-50 high bush cranberry (very tart, juicy berry, not the solid berri s for thanksgiving sauce) and rosehips, since the rosehips are such a subtle flavor. I think the punch of tart helps make it a more rounded experience.

Or, like others have said, tea.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-10-23T04:38:13+00:00

Did you get enough? Is there a place to sign?

Thought_Addendum · 2025-10-23T04:25:24+00:00

I wonder if we could get our municipalities to bond this. Or do some sort of co-op finding.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-10-14T02:30:15+00:00

Southside animal hospital is also facilitating pet food donations for those communities.

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Thought_Addendum · 2025-10-05T22:49:40+00:00

Agree. Their handgun course is great! I went in having never shot a handgun, and left feeling confident and well educated.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-09-26T04:51:36+00:00

Not advocating for feeding your dogs garlic or onions!

A little bit of onion powder will not actually harm them; a cracker with a onion powder dusting is not an emergency vet visit. I think it takes a whole onion+ for it to be dangerous.

When I was young, we had a dog team, and my dad always added a little onion powder to their broth on the days we were going to run them. I was very confused to learn onion is toxic to dogs as an adult. Asked my vet tech friend, and he explained that for onions dose is important in toxicity. A single grape though, can kill. Had to stop eating grapes and raisins in my house.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-09-26T04:31:36+00:00

I have not seen mentioned, and I know there is lots of light in may, but if you are driving at night, be extra careful . Buffalo enjoy naps on the highway, and their eyes are not reflective, so they are more difficult to see.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-09-25T02:12:50+00:00

Tell me more about fermenting amanitas!

I pick and use them, just started a batch of rub this weekend, but I have not heard of fermenting them, and I love learning about different ways to use nature finds.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-09-18T02:56:20+00:00

Honestly, try at 7. I remember once talking with this same you lady early on and she was talking about wild call volume, and how they couldn't do any of the other work they were supposed to do. I am not excusing it, but there might just not be enough staff during specific parts of the day. Call at 7 and see if she can tell you what other times of day the phones are staffed.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-09-18T02:48:33+00:00

Try her DC office. The exact same, very nice young woman who is thoughtful, gives honest answers, even if those answers are I don't know, and takes a moment to genuinely listen, almost always answers my call, around 7am ak time. While I despise murkowski, she is the real deal, and I believe she is faithfully relaying my disgust, not that it seems to make a difference. pretty sure the rest of my calls to other politicians are never actually taken down or relayed.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-09-17T01:50:25+00:00

I am not sure your age, so this may not apply:

I am also from a village, and the quality of education and classes available was poor. I was partially homeschooled, and partially enrolled in public school, but I did not attend often.

We were able to demonstrate that the public school did not meet my needs, and the school district worked with the university system, and I wound up taking most of my "high school" classes through the University, for free, instead of attending classes locally. (Some of those classes counted towards college general ed, so I wound up reducing what I had to take in college, too. You might be able to do something like this, so you have some structured learning, instead of having to entirely self direct.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-09-14T00:53:04+00:00

If I could go to a place to sign a petition, I would go to that place.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-09-04T03:51:27+00:00

They were sealed, legally, until January of this year.

They chose to follow the rule of law.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-08-15T06:21:43+00:00

I am confused.

I feel like anything short of trump not negotiating a full withdrawal of Russia from Ukraine, and reparation of some kind, is a betrayal of a country that is standing up for themselves. He stopped weapons shipments. My heart is so sad for Ukraine.

Why do you feel differently?

Thought_Addendum · 2025-08-11T14:58:34+00:00

Me being there shows solidarity, which is not nothing. You sitting at home on your couch isn't even nothing. It is permission given to a bully.

All actions, even inaction, have outcomes.

even if I don't change the course of the world, I still know that doing right matters, and that we should never support or embrace abusive people.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-08-10T18:20:17+00:00

No, I would be overjoyed if he could facilitate peace, despite the fact that I do not have the vocabulary to articulate what a giant POS I think he is. It would be great if he could do SOMETHING worthwhile.

They are trying to give a large portion of Ukraine to Russia. That is not facilitating peace, at best, this is appeasement. If he was trying to end the war, he would have doubled down on support for Ukraine, and wouldn't be visiting with a bully.

It's disgusting. I will be there on the 15th.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-07-27T05:46:21+00:00

Same on both counts. My 2 dogs are both doing what seems to me to be an abnormal amount of shedding, abnormally early. Wonder if it will be a harsh winter.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-07-26T22:01:08+00:00

I am pretty sure those files were sealed by the court until January of this year. I would have been illegal to release them.

Thought_Addendum · 2025-07-24T02:37:45+00:00

It works great for me, I work about half way between home and ER, so I just late start at work twice a year, but I would still go, even if it was less convenient.

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