{"id":5239,"date":"2017-11-04T07:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2017-11-04T07:07:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T05:07:35","slug":"surviving-sushi-with-the-yakuza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2017\/11\/surviving-sushi-with-the-yakuza\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving sushi with the Yakuza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere along a nondescript part of Kantstra\u00dfe in Charlottenburg, there&#8217;s a seriously dodgy-looking place, covered in graffiti, that you&#8217;d otherwise want to cross the road to avoid. I&#8217;m glad we didn&#8217;t though, because it&#8217;s home to 893 Ryotei, one of the best sushi restaurants Germany has to offer. 893 is a losing hand in the Japanese card game oichokabu, a combination that when pronounced in Japanese sounds like yattsu-ku-san, which is where the Yakuza got its name from.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m inside a mafia-connected street bar in the middle of a European city and I&#8217;m thinking ordering room service may have been a better idea. Thank god I didn&#8217;t. This isn&#8217;t the sushi doled out to us at fast food joints. No California rolls here, just beautiful, scrumptious pieces of seafood and red meat finger art that goes down smooth &#8230; and fast. Just don&#8217;t order the veal heart skewers, please. That&#8217;s not right.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171102_190332.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/893.png\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171104_054439.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"26\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171104_054222.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"27\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20171104_054122.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere along a nondescript part of Kantstra\u00dfe in Charlottenburg, there&#8217;s a seriously dodgy-looking place, covered in graffiti, that you&#8217;d otherwise want to cross the road to avoid. I&#8217;m glad we didn&#8217;t though, because it&#8217;s home to 893 Ryotei, one of the best sushi restaurants Germany has to offer. 893 is a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5241,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}