Manchester around and about

Manchester, what can I say? It is conveniently located for travel throughout the country, with good connection links (road and rail). Its geographic position also provides easy access to the Lake district, Peak district and Wales (for those of you that enjoy the outdoors).
Mainly, Manchester is now the place I call home. After living/studying here for 8 years I feel I can say this place is my home, even if it technically does place me in the category of a traitor due to the fact my origins lie somewhat closer to Liverpool.
Manchester offers a range of restaurants, thus providing varied cuisine, with China town in the city centre and the Curry mile just a short bus ride away in Rusholme. A host of appetites can be accommodated for in this city.
However, today's entry consists of how I spent my Sunday. In the general scheme of things it was a pretty lazy one, in which I only left the house to collect my boyfriend from the train station and then a few hours later to enjoy a dinner out at Wasabi (Manchester Printworks branch). http://www.wasabisushi.co.uk/ So I'll give you a brief review of my time and the food we enjoyed here. We arrived at around 6:30 pm, as it was quite early and a Sunday there was no queue and we were seated straight away, with a good seat next to the belt and near the chefs.

Sushi on the belt.

I love the novelty of watching the food being prepared and then observing the different sushi options travelling along the belt. Sometimes not being sure of what to have and then the dish you want passes you by but you're just that bit too slow and it's gone. Leaving you to wait until it has completed another lap of the belt, that's if you are lucky enough for it to return to you and it has not already been snatched up by another diner. The woes of the sushi belt! ;).
Wasabi offers a variety of vegetarian dishes, as well as fish and meat options. The menu can be found here: http://www.wasabisushi.co.uk/offbelt.html. This sushi chain also offers a variety of meal deals, such as the £1 pound a plate lunchtime sushi deal (12-3 pm), which I often enjoy, usually in the company of friends. On one such trip, one of the waiters told us the tail of the guy who ate 50 plates of sushi and drank a lot of diet coke. Apparently, it became a real concern from the staff working that shift that he may suffer death by sushi! But as the tale goes he did in fact survive and thoroughly enjoyed his epic sushi meal, I myself have never been able to manage more that 7 plates. Getting back to Sunday night there were two meal deals to chose from, which are regularly on the menu for £8.95. I chose the miso soup and 6 plates of sushi off the belt meal, whereas Rob (my boyfriend) opted for the 3 plates of sushi and a choice of a rice or noodle dish option (he selected the chicken catsu curry).
My personal favourite are the tofu bags; 1) because they look kinda funny (originally I had no idea what they were, they look like silly little pyramids! ;) ) and 2) they are super sweet and tasty.

My super tasty veggie sushi rolls! 

So, if you want a fairly inexpensive and satisfying meal I would recommended this sushi restaurant but I am sure similar restaurants up and down the country would provide equivalent satisfaction, this restaurant is however 5 minutes walk from my house, so this is another reason why I like it! :)

Enjoy.

Sam x