Merry Xmas everyone!!

This first year of blogging about sushi has been fun and I have gotten to know a lot of really nice people. Some of the best sushi blogs out there you too should visit are Warrens - Sushi Otaku, Allisons Sushi Day and Trevors The Scrawling Claw. I always hang out at their places to get inspired!

Having the goal of eating myself through the sushi scene in Oslo means that I have eaten a LOT of sushi this year! I am up to 35 restaurants covered, but many still to go. I have lost track on how many there are in total and I feel like they keep on popping up so quickly… And not just quality sushi bars I am afraid…

But there are some good ones out there too! Nodee, Alex Sushi, Nippon Art and Cosmo Thai & Sushi are now on my top 3 list of “sit down restaurants”, while Sushi House in Sporveisgata, Sushi & Wok in Majorstua and Kitty’s Sushi are my top 3 favorite “take away places”.

Having your own sushi chef come to your house was also a very special occasion, and I really hope to see Arne from Taku Catering come by and cook for us again real soon. Our kitchen is featured in this magazine right now because of him too. Very cool.

I want to thank some of the sushi lovers that have contributed with their own sushi reviews; Snorre and Felix in London in particular. I hope you will keep on eating lots more sushi! Next year I will be traveling some too, trying to add some more venues and cities to my list. Beijing and Dubai coming up soon. If you want to contribute too, just send me your review!

My own holiday celebration has not consisted of much raw fish and sweetened rice so far. I have been appreciating the more traditional Norwegian Christmas food like pork, lamb, nuts, marzipan and a lot of krumkaker… But I am soon back in business. I have started to feel the craving for both pickled ginger and wasabi. I will definately keep on posting silly sushi stuff also in 2008!

So - thank you for stopping by Sushi or Death, hope you are having a nice holiday and that you will keep on coming back to visit! Greetings from snowy Norway!