Helping Japan

Last night I dined on magnificent sushi for a cause – Oishii Boston’s benefit to aid the earthquake, tsunami, and radiation victims in Japan. Ting San joined with other chefs, including Dante deMagistris of Dante and Il Casale, Anthony Caturano of Prezza, Michael Serpa of Neptune Oyster, and Luis Morales of Tico, to raise funds for relief efforts.

Oishii sushi

The place was more than packed — a sold out house — and the food fantastic. Spicy pork meatballs with fonduta sauce from Dante;  oysters from Neptune, a spicy Asian-style taco from Tico, and pristine sushi from True World Foods, which supplies many of the sushi restaurants around town. But we found ourselves hanging around Oishii’s sushi bar where chefs, including this very young rockstar sushi chef (below), were putting out tray after tray of simple and irresistible sushi.

Sushi chef at Oishii

(By the way, we gladly paid the $100 each for the benefit — a belated and treasured Valentine’s Day gift to each other).