Sushi and Jon Stewart

Today, Pat and I went to a place that I thought only existed in my dreams: an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet.  The restaurant is called Ichiumi and is the tastiest sushi restaurant we've been to here.  It's not a bad deal ($18/person for lunch) if you calculate that a sushi combo at most restaurants costs about $15 anyway.  It's nice, too, because we were able to try sushi that we wouldn't have otherwise wanted to chance our money on...

The restaurant is in Koreatown, which is dangerously close to where we live...

The sushi/nigiri is awesome here and is, in fact, better than the other restaurants that we pay per piece at.  The fish to rice ratio was excellent (lots of fish) and the spicy rolls were amazing. Here is my first plate...

Pat's first plate (oh my gosh, did I eat more than him?)...

My second plate.  This time I tried some of their hot food (crab cake and shish kabob), goma wakame (my favorite part of the meal!), and tuna tartare (too strong for me)...

Pat's second plate (geez, I think I did have more than him)...

Even though we were both stuffed, we had to try their desserts which were mostly these delicious tiny cakes...

I'd recommend Ichiumi to any sushi lover who comes to the city, but be warned the the prices are much higher for weekday dinners, and then even higher on the weekends.

Later, we attended a taping of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  After a 2 hour wait outside in the cold, we were let into the building.  The set is very cool in real life, but other than that, the show was not very fun.  This is the first show we've seen that's only 30 minutes long and it was the longest we've had to wait in line, so it was not worth it.  Furthermore, the music during the commercials and the introducer's mic were WAY too loud and made my head hurt.  However, Jon Stewart himself seemed very nice and genuinely funny before the show and during the commercials. Otherwise, I would not recommend this taping to anyone.