What's the Missus Craving? Tsuruhashi

How are you when sick? I just want to be left alone...the Missus, is well, w-h-in-ey..... She'd been under the weather for the last week and a half, so I've thinking of places to eat. I thought Boiling Passion might do the trick. But when we arrived She had changed Her mind and decided She wanted to eat at Tsuruhashi. It had been a while. Once upon a time, the place had a place in our rotation. But since we started grilling with bincho at home and Tsuruhashi raised their prices, the place had sort of fallen out of favor.

It's still our favorite shop for yakiniku in San Diego though. Not visiting in a year and half made things interesting. The customers were almost all Caucasian and Chinese, very different from how things used to be. The service was very efficient and we enjoyed our meal.

All the regulars if you've read our previous posts.

The prime tongue, grilled until the edges are crisp is a thing of beauty....the grill kept nicely greased by that piece of beef fat.

Two of my favorites, the beefy, yet tender prime skirt, lightly dipped in a nice sauce and the clean tasting yukke, raw beef, made even more creamy with the egg yolk, sweetened by the pear, and don't forget the mild thinly sliced onions hiding behind the piece of lettuce.

The Missus really enjoy the vegetables, especially the bunmeiji mushrooms and the corn....I liked the onions.

There's one item that we tried here yet again, and like before just didn't care for. We'd had some really good; make that great horumon, beef intestines during our last trip to Tokyo and even once at an izakaya in Hiroshima, so we thought we'd give it a try here again.

This just didn't do it for us; the intestines were really hard; not tough, hard when cooked and have a rather unpleasant "stickiness". I eat my share of guts and really didn't enjoy this.

This wasn't a cheap dinner, but we had all of this and shared one medium sized bowl of rice; it all came out to $50 and we had no beer. To us, it was worth it because it was just what the Missus needed to feel a little better....which is priceless.

Tsuruhashi Japanese BBQ
3904 Convoy St.
San Diego, CA 92111

Comments

[kat]

Hope she feels better soon!

[Junichi]

My visits have decreased ever since the food poisoning incident that led to the manager taking responsibility and resigning. Really liked that guy too. Going to Sei-ko-en up in Torrance this weekend. Can't wait. The best yakiniku I've ever had.

[Kirk]

She already is Kat!

I've heard good things about Seikoen....especially bang for the buck Junichi. We had some really good yakiniku at this place in Ebisu, I'll get around to doing a post.....sad thing is; I have no idea what the name of the place is.