{"id":130,"date":"2009-06-18T18:19:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T23:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2013-02-17T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T23:17:33","slug":"feeling-genki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Genki"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a really nice lunch with my sister, brother-in-law, nephew, and my cousin Tuesday at a great sushi shop in Wilmington called Genki Sushi<\/a>. It’s my new favorite Japanese restaurant in the state of North Carolina. It’s sort of like a cross between a sushi bar and an izakaya<\/em> (which is a Japanese pub).<\/p>\n

Coming here really does feel like coming to a real <\/em>Japanese restaurant, and Sugi-san and his wife do an excellent job of making you feel right at home. The menu is full of good stuff, too. From good fresh sushi<\/em> to those dishes that make you feel a little \u00e6\u2021\u0090\u00e3\u0081\u2039\u00e3\u0081\u2014\u00e3\u0081\u201e (natsukashii<\/em>) for good old Japanese food.<\/p>\n

It’s not the stuff you get in the steak houses, and it’s not some fancy fusion stuff. This is good, solid \u00e5\u2019\u0152\u00e9\u00a3\u0178 (washoku<\/em>), which means traditional Japanese food (like sushi), along with some good \u00e6\u00b4\u2039\u00e9\u00a3\u0178 (youshoku<\/em>), which is the more “modern” Japanese food (like tonkatsu). It’s all good stuff.<\/p>\n

I had some tuna sushi (nigiri, of course), with fried squid legs, and a great tonkatsu plate. And of course, a bowl of Sugi-san’s excellent rice. He makes the best rice I’ve ever had. (And I’ve had some excellent rice.)<\/p>\n

Hot Dog!<\/h3>\n

No trip to Wrightsville Beach is complete without Trolly Stop hot dogs either. I had a couple of\u00c2\u00a0 Carolina Dogs on Wednesday for lunch. Those are the best hot dogs in the world.<\/p>\n

And I’m not biased at all because I was born here.<\/p>\n

A Carolina Dog is a hot dog with chili and cole slaw on it, but for some reason, the chili and cole slaw at the Trolly Stop just goes really well together.\u00c2\u00a0 I love to add a dash of mustard and ketchup. (Not too much.) And the steamed hot dog buns are perfect.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, the beach was wonderful, too.<\/p>\n

Hey, it’s the beach. Of course it’s great. The beaches in North Carolina are hard to beat. (Except, of course, when you’re in the middle of a hurricane…)<\/p>\n

It’s good being with the whole extended family, but it will be good to get home and take a break from all of the traveling for a few weeks. It’ll also be time to stop eating so much, and get back on a more sane diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a really nice lunch with my sister, brother-in-law, nephew, and my cousin Tuesday at a great sushi shop in Wilmington called Genki Sushi. It’s my new favorite Japanese restaurant in the state of North Carolina. It’s sort of like a cross between a sushi bar and an izakaya (which is a Japanese pub). […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,356,73,74,57],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-wrightsville-beach","tag-carolina-dog","tag-genki-sushi","tag-trolly-stop","tag-wilmington","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}