“Yeah, artist Shanequa Gay and owner Farshid Arshid dreamed this art installation up as a way to creatively enforce the social distancing requirements for restaurants.” Did you know that cheese could come from fermented alcohol?” French fries, potato chips… they fry them in soy butter.” “Soy mixed with butter is a popular flavor combination in Japan. “The super fatty tuna sliced from a fish that went for $3.2 million at auction. “The duck braised in Wagyu beef fat is smoked here. That’s where the seafood is the freshest in the world.” “This uni comes from the coldest Northern waters of Japan. The cows probably eat better than you and me.” “The Wagyu comes from cows raised in a small Southern coastal town in Japan. That was before he was even allowed to touch fish.” “My cousin studied under a sushi master in Japan. “Rice is how you can tell the best sushi. Most sushi rice is vinegar, rice and sugar. Our rice is made with salt and red wine vinegar indigenous to Japan. It’s not a glob like grocery store sushi. “When the rice is perfect, you can taste each individual grain. Here, a few things I learned while eating there that prove my point: Umi is arguably the best fine dining restaurant, and definitely the best sushi restaurant, in Atlanta. While Umi is at the pinnacle of the other end of the spectrum. When I wrote my mantra for Two-Sided Southern it was “for people who love Waffle House as much as Umi.” That’s because to me, Waffle House is quintessentially Southern, down home dining.
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