You already know the story. A Tik Tok meals critic, Keith Lee, with a gazillion followers visited a neighborhood sushi joint, FOB Sushi Bar, ate some uncooked fish, and gave the expertise a principally constructive evaluate. However earlier than FOB Sushi may benefit from the growth of a “Keith Lee Impact,” his followers claimed they noticed a worm or one thing transfer in a bit of sushi he consumed. I don’t wish to go into whether or not there was worm or not, and in addition to I believe we must always eat extra bugs (and let me not get into how a lot I miss consuming the furry caterpillars bought in markets in and round Gaborone, Botswana), however the controversy was so loud, so viral, so relentless that it pressured FOB Sushi Bar to shut “Till Additional Discover” its Seattle and Bellevue areas on Nov 19.
The enterprise cautiously reopened on December 4. Was the smoke clear? Would folks come? I did, and for the primary time. I had by no means even heard of FOB Sushi Bar till it was trashed on social media. Additionally, I am not a sushi fan basically as a result of few eating places really do it effectively (large ups to Maneki for spoiling/education me), and those who do not aren’t well worth the hassle. I can eat a mediocre burrito or bowl of phở, however not a plate of sushi. And that’s precisely what I ate at FOB Sushi Bar (so-so sushi), which sells its number of items by the load ($14.99 per pound). That is sushi for the lots. Sushi to make you full. Sushi that neither excites or disappoints. And, in fact, I believe the sushi served on the QFC in Harvard Market is a contact higher.
That was my expertise. I left the reopening, which was busy with younger and outdated folks displaying their assist (“glad to see you might be again”), and returned my ideas to Hawking radiation. It’s wonderful that right here, on the sting of a black gap, the overall principle of relativity, quantum physics, and thermodynamics meet. That is really one thing. And it is made attainable by nothing. And nothing is just not, it seems, nothing in any respect.
