In the morning I helped Joe with his taxes, and discovered that (despite the fact that he'd be getting a bit of money back from the government) he still had to pay the Fish Tax of 2008! Oh, no! Quel dommage! Luckily, a fish in Lyon is not hard to find.
At present, all of the chocolate shops here are filled with chocolate fish, chocolate hens, chocolate bears, chocolate ducks with some costing as much as 100 euros! Luckily, Joe's fish tax was not that high and he scored an okay fish for the bargain price of 5 euros.
After procuring said fish, Joe and I had a serious conversation, decided that our fish was lonely, and decided to go take it to a more fishy place. We first walked it through Les Halles (the giant food market where Paul Bocuse supposedly shops) looking for a poissonerie but, sadly, since it was after 12 (noon) on a Wednesday, all of them were closed.
We didn't want the fish to cry, though, so we hopped across the street to Bo Sushi. And, despite the weird sexy menu art, it was pretty amazing. We got a combo plate for 16.50 euros, which came with two delicious cabbage salads and then 18 pieces of sushi (three pieces of each variety).
Front to back: spring roll with avocado and salmon, salmon with "cream cheese," tuna with mayonaise, OMELET wrapped around avocado and "cream cheese," salmo, and finally sesame seed encrusted tuna and avocado.
The waiter was amazingly nice, refilled our water without us asking, and joked with us in English and French!
We got the fish home, let it swim around a bit with some macarons from Seve (in my opinion, the best in Lyon!). And then started eating it when, to my surprise, I discovered that the fish had produced some caviar!!
For real, though, on the 1 April, French school children are supposed to be all sneaky and tape paper fish to their classmates' backs. That sounds like much more fun than American April Fools' Day traditions.
1 comments:
Fish are friends, not food. That chocolate fish is too cute! Haven't you ever seen Nemo?
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