26 - Wednesday, April 4, 1990 - North Shore News

entertainment WOW:

Manyo-Sushi means much to many

From page 25
am in full control of my senses.

The dish was an agreeable
vegetarian marriage of land and
sea: greens from both sides of the
high tide mark.

It included shredded red cab-
bage, lettuce and watercress from
above that mark and a brown and
deep green seaweed from the
below,

There were also thin lemon and
cucumber slices atop rice noodles
in a sweet and sour vinaigrette,
somewhat like a Sunomono salad.

It was an interesting and exotic
combination of contrasts and fla-
vors: crisp lettuce and sharp pep-
pery watercress with slippery
seaweed and noodles.

From seaweed, | progressed to

Baked Geoduck ($4.25), another
new Manyo offering.

It was presented in an abalone
shell garnished with fancy lettuce
and shredded red cabbage.

The geoduck (King or Giant
Clam to West Coasters) was
prepared in a Japanese Florentine
style: a sweet cream sauce with
fried onions and spinach.

In the main event, | went for the
Beef Sashimi ($9.75).

The dish is sushi Prairies-style,
and it is ideal for the reluctant
fish-food fan.

Red meat takes the place of
seafood, but the dish is all Japa-
nese, retaining the simple
brilliance of presentation that is so
much a part of Japanese
gastronomy.

Preparation is subtle but fastidi-
ous: thin slices of raw beef, lightly
seared, are served in a soya-
teriyaki marinade beneath ginger
root, garlic, chopped green onions
and ground white radishes.

The flavors are sharp and brac-
ing; the meat is tender and juicy.

Highly recommended.

TASTY MORSEL
CAFE ROMA, 60 SEMISCH
AVENUE, NORTH VANCOUVER,
984-0274

A wide circle of friends enjoyed
the generous hospitality of Cafe
Roma and helped celebrate a
spirited surprise 40th birthday par-
ty Sunday night for Roma partner
Antonio Corsi. .

The party, organized by An-
tonio’s older brother, Mario, and

Cockney comes to town

From page 23
ful thing.
National Velvet — Courage, Cap-
itol Records 1990

The Toronto band’s !ead singer,
Maria Del Mar, splits herself to
double as avenging hard-rock
harpy and Aquarian-age waif.

A whining and blistering guitar-
driven phenomenon, National
Velvet color powerhouse licks
with an aggressively neo-
psychedelic sensibility.

And so, the musical menu is
freewheeling enough to include
the squishy rant of Sex Gorilla as
well as the patchouli-infused,
altered-state celebration of

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The band stakes its territory and
rips open the decade with a strik-
ing salvo.

Rory McLeod — Footseps And
Heartbeats, Cooking Vinyl 1989

A spirited Cockney folkie with a
tricky sense of rhythm, McLeod
turns the stuff of life (at one time
he was a circus clown and fire-
eater) into pithy political observa-
tion and downright joie de vivre.

McLeod blows a mean mouth
harp and writes some fine songs
too. Collectorman, a tailormade
renter’s blues, offers timely obser-
vation: “I never knew us poor
people were so popular before.”

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Our brand new store on the north shore is now
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carpet and a whole kaleidoscope of colours, too.

McLeod appears at the Van-
couver East Cultural Centre, 8
p.m., Monday, April 9.

eee ew

re-released The

BMG recently
self-titled 1989

Stone Roses’
debut.

Psychedelic revisionists, the
Roses specialize in bending minds
with an arty raga rush. It sounds
like the re-release has been
remixed to capitalize on the
dreamlike quality. A funky-fresh
jam showing a fot of chart action
in Europe, Fools Gold, has been
tagged on to the collection.

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family, and it illustrated again the
philosophy that elevates the Corsis
so far above so many of their con-
temporaries: there is much more
to life than the total at the bottom
of a restaurant bill.

other family members, featured a
Cafe Roma-style Italian feast, open
bar, live South American music
and lambada dancers.

It was a celebration of food and

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