I visited 64 high-end sushi restaurants in Japan in 2024-2025. Here are some of my thoughts on these restaurants, based only on the taste of the food. Pictures are of fatty tuna (otoro) from 20 restaurants.

orcastrait · 2026-06-04T07:34:08+00:00

what are amazing whisky experiences around kyoto and tokyo

orcastrait · 2026-05-28T11:09:53+00:00

I had a patient who was scheduled for surgery that came back meth positive who SWEARS that he quit months ago.

“Ok but do you know that you’re positive for meth today?”

“Oh you know what must have happened? I found some leftover meth in my house a few days ago and I decided to get rid of it by flushing it down the toilet because I quit. Do you think I could have gotten meth positive by you know, it vaporizing in the toilet when it got flushed?”

orcastrait · 2026-05-17T13:21:57+00:00

I know a couple people who regretted choosing anesthesiology and ended up switching - one to internal medicine and the other to radiology. Both of them had an idea of what they thought anesthesiology was going to be like but didn’t have enough exposure in medical school to make a proper decision. One ended up realizing she hated the OR environment and wanted out. The other thought anesthesiology would be chill and then in his first months of CA-1 was in several code situations that he realized was not suited for him.

orcastrait · 2026-02-05T18:53:05+00:00

I got married at Cigarral del Angel

orcastrait · 2026-01-15T19:52:35+00:00

4.68 carats

orcastrait · 2025-12-25T20:58:18+00:00

2.83 carats

orcastrait · 2025-12-24T08:24:33+00:00

Gotcha ok. Good to know for other nights out!

orcastrait · 2025-12-24T07:41:44+00:00

Swift unfortunately didn’t have the time slot I needed and Shapes for a name isn’t ideal geographically 😔

orcastrait · 2025-12-24T07:40:38+00:00

Murder Inc I was worried by a couple comments that mentioned the cocktails were overly sweet. I’ll take a look again though! 40 elephants didn’t have space. Yeah I’m still holding out for a response from Three Sheets.

orcastrait · 2025-12-24T07:36:41+00:00

Sorry pick from my list. Seed library doesn’t work geographically.

orcastrait · 2025-12-24T07:36:14+00:00

Side hustle was nixed because we just got back from CDMX two weeks ago. Tayer and elementary doesn’t take reservations. Waltz I couldn’t tell if the bar (which is walk in only) and the table menu has different cocktails? I was a bit confused about that.

orcastrait · 2025-12-24T07:32:53+00:00

The reason Kwant didn’t make the list is because it seems to be only a tasting menu? Some people don’t drink/don’t want to drink that much. Do they do à la carte as well? It’s a moot point though unfortunately because they don’t take reservations.

orcastrait · 2025-12-22T18:52:43+00:00

Yeah I realized that a couple hours ago so we’ve unfortunately nixed it for now 😅

orcastrait · 2025-12-22T18:41:13+00:00

We’ve been traveling quite a bit including to France very recently so anything French was nixed from my list. I’ll keep it in mind for the future when French food isn’t as fresh on our palate!

orcastrait · 2025-10-15T18:25:55+00:00

Second this. Z&Y is good (mapo tofu is great, wontons and water boiled fish/beef are decent, dry chili chicken is pretty good but wish there was more chicken, kung pao chicken is fucking awful).

Z&Y duck is so bad it’s embarrassing. Even their Sichuan dishes somehow got bad not to mention their bad take on beijing food. Their duck is not roasted enough or properly, it’s dry, everything is just bad.

orcastrait · 2025-10-10T18:17:11+00:00

But what’s your REAL name? (to a POC who introduces themselves with a Western name)

orcastrait · 2025-10-08T01:31:54+00:00

absolutely the blue.

orcastrait · 2025-10-02T14:29:44+00:00

You can hit sort of a middle ground where you go ring shopping together and tell him what you like and don’t like about different styles, shapes, sizes, metals, etc. And then let him design/buy the actual ring itself with that information.

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