Sushi did not become popular until it arrived in the West, where its rolled-up nature influenced the invention of the sleeping bag as well as the filling of other people’s sleeping bags with fish. Celebrate this foreign treat with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of sushi and Japanese cuisine at Sushi Badaya in Highland Park.
Sushi Badaya's deft chefs roll up a menu of familiar favorites and tasty originals. Crabmeat and boiled shrimp shelter beneath a blanket of eel and creamy unagi sauce in the crunchy-shelled Turtle roll ($14.15), and Josh G's house-special roll acidizes shiitake mushrooms, asparagus, and radishes with vinegar sauce ($12.15). The kitchen also whips up non-sushi eats such as the Firecracker appetizer, a fried shrimp stuffed with the same sweet chili sauce used to power Fourth of July displays ($6.95), as well as chicken ($16.95) and salmon teriyaki ($17.95). Diners pair these seductive eats with libations from a full bar surrounded by recessed lighting and offset by an aquatically themed Japanese mural.
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The Groupon Guide to: Choosing Produce
There's no worse feeling than when you buy what you assume is perfectly ripe produce only to discover it's too hard or have it dissolve into a pile of ashes in your grocery bag. Here are some tips for filling your basket with ready-to-eat fruits and vegetables:
- Broccoli: Drag the vegetable florets-side-up across your arm. Each should be firm enough to rid your forearm of unwanted hair.
- Cherry: You'll have to tear through the tasteless, inedible outer layer to test the cherry's high-protein, peanut-like core. Once you expose the cherry nut, swallow it and rate the pain you feel as it gradually moves down your throat. If it's less than a seven, it's too ripe.
- Apple: Smell an apple. Does it smell apple?
- Cantaloupe: Knock on it to determine if it's hollow. If it is, there's a gerbil living inside subsisting on the fruit's ripe core. Hurry up! You'll have to eat quickly to beat the gerbil.
- Pumpkin: This orange, round gourd shouldn't deflate easily, so repeatedly stab it with something sharp, such as a hunting knife or the tools doctors use to open their mail.
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