Sagami: Classic Sushi, Hold the Mayo

We also hit up Sagami for an early dinner on Friday. Sagami, for those unfamiliar, is a fantastic sushi restaurant just outside of Philadelphia. For me personally, it’s the first place I ever had sushi. I had just graduated from college, and gotten a job in Camden City, which found me driving all around Camden County. I took mental notes of all of these interesting places I’d pass during the work day, and the Rhonda and I would light out for dinner and drinks on the weekends, often trying places I’d spied during the week. Interestingly enough, she had been there once before we went. But that was my first blush with raw fish, save for a fraternity prank, and it was illuminating and instructive. I can’t possibly know enough about Japanese cuisine to speak authoritatively about it, but what I have always appreciated about Sagami is the utter simplicity of the presentation. Later sushi excursions have found me staring at complex maki, with fish inside, fish outside, and a goopy mayonnaise…