Thursday, September 4, 2008

YUMI

4 Ranchers decided to have a Pitts San tribute and decended upon Yumi for an informal Ranch dinner.
Cali and Noshow being the early birds arrived first at 7pm and assumed they'd be well into their meal by the time Crespo and Zinni arrived. Little did they remember that Yumi is not known for promptness and efficiency. Luckily they were hypnotized by the butchering of a giant tuna by our sushi chef Higashi which in broken english was explained as Easter. Zinni later named him Pasquale (Italian for easter) and that name stuck.

Crespo was second to the restaurant sporting mad max motorcycle boots with Skinni Zinni 10 minutes after.


Crespo's fluent japanese along with handsignals were one of 3 highlights of the night. The second being the young japanese girls drinking themselves into oblivion on cold sake. The one against the wall was seeing blurry eyed by the time we left at 10:30pm. The third highlight was the conference call with Tom Pitts at 4am HK time. A speakerphone conversation with the ranchers and a few words with Mrs. Yumi (the owner) and I believe Pitts was actually smiling.


Overall, a great evening spent amoung good people.

7 comments:

riderzinni said...

pasquale was good.... yumi has a PITTSY San shrine near the sushi bar... the owner is even thinking of remaning the establishment as PITTSY's place....
Tea.... you've got some pictures now..

rider eazy-e said...

great tribute to pittsy san- i love that place, zinni whats up with that double chin??

riderzinni said...

I guess you need to upgrade your specs pollito

Tea said...

well....I am certainly grateful that there were no pix of the butchering of the tuna. Especially after my last rant about the "lack" of pix...

I owe you guys....next up....Tea and the mini-sherpas enjoying mexican food! I'll get right on that one.

riderpitts said...

did you force a carb lite - no beer sashimi only diet on the crespo or you going to risk another stemcell lecture.

riderzinni said...

I don't think StemCell would have had liked our Yumi dinner.. Too much rice... no proteins.. complete disaster... I am going to eat a massive plate of pasta ...StemCell...won't be proud of me...

Tea said...

alrighty den....I think I've now posted some food pix that you will all enjoy....