Death by Fish

No, I didn't order the Fugu (No need to panic Mr Simpson. There is a map to the hospital on the back of the menu.) However, this weekend I did go overboard with the fish - Friday at noon, some folks from the London & NYC office were in town, so we went to a little Asian Fusion place called Monsoon in Santa Monica near 3rd and Wilshire. I ordered the chirashi, which is sashimi on a bed of flavoured rice. Later that night, roommate says to me: "You feel like sushi?" "Sure," says I (foolishly). So we head out to another little place called Kabuki down near LAX to join some of Roommate's friends from the SF Bay Area for dinner. Getting there at 9, we were faced with a massive crowd and a one-hour wait. Famished, we finally sit down at 10 and are presented with a 1/2 price off menu. With delerium setting in due to low blood sugar, Roommate & I go totally nuts ordering sushi for everyone. After the damage was done, we were left with four large takeout boxes of sushi. It turned out that all the Friends from Frisco were staying at the Westin, which inexplicably, does not offer its guests refrigerators for their rooms; thus logically, yours truly takes the bounty home. The next day, Roommate was called to action attending the wedding of a friend, and I was tasked with the duty of consuming the remaining fish. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner were served with delicious day-old sushi, each meal less fulfilling than the last. Once again on Sunday morning, to break our fast, more of Friday's meal was served, however with fatigue setting in, we decided that the welcome had worn thin for our maritime meal, and promptly disposed of the remains of our protein-rich platter. In epilogue, several of my co-workers were felled by a foul gas while attempting to enter the men's restroom at the office the next day; truly, the sea is a cruel temptress whose vengeful creatures wreak only destruction from across the veil of their watery grave.

Thus came to pass the Six Meals of Raw Fish, forever inscribed in my memory as a feat never to be repeated again.