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Sum Dim, Sum Don’t, Sum Just Dumb – Who else would end up in a Japanese restaurant in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown.

The Sushi Boat Restaurant offers authentic Japanese cuisine and sushi, which is served in miniature boats floating around the chef’s table. Not being a sushi eater, I simply ordered beers. Liz occasionaly saw a boat float by that offered a small plate of something she either liked, recognized, or was willing to try. Our Australian mate not only loved sushi but was removing the boats cargo quite often and he had accumulated a rather high stack of little plates. Patrons downstream viewed him as a 20th century pirate. Slowly floating towards them comes a little treasure of some rice and fish blob, and they watched in horror as time after time Wayne’s arm reaches out and steals the bounty before it reaches them. I realized the farther you sit at the end of the line, the less options or longer wait you have before something floats by that you want. The servings are quite small, maybe typical for most sushi dishes – but it may be awhile before your ship sails in. A tip to those interested – the water flows in one direction – sit close to where the chef places the boats into the stream. And what about the little river??? Anyone ever do a test of these waters, don’t think I’d want to know the results. “You not rike Sushi?“, “No, not hungry thanks, I’ll have another Asahi though, please.“