I would like to hypothesize the following:

I have the highest ratio of potential to not suck at life : actually sucking at life, of anyone.

GOD I AM ON TILT

P.S. The above is not poker related.

Like seriously, I even amaze myself.

The best meal of my life:

Nobu Las Vegas

Roy and I had reservations for 9:15 and arrived right on time, and were seated immediatly. Excellent. Roy said he trusted my judgement and to just order a bunch of things that I thought would be awesome and we'd split it all.

I picked the following 6 items:

Yellowtail Sashimi with Jalapeno
Lobster Ceviche
Tiradito 'Live Scallop'
'Kumamoto' Oyster with Nobu Sauces
Squid 'Pasta' with Light Garlic Sauce
Black Cod with Miso

Yellowtail Sashimi with Jalapeno:

I had this at the Nobu in the Atlantis and loved it. Again, it didn't dissappoint. Very fresh sashimi with a thin slice of jalapeno on each, with a delicious slightly spicy sauce. Really fresh and delicious.

Lobster Ceviche

Butter lettuce cup with some thinly sliced cucumber, red onion, cherry tomato, and fresh lobster. We were instructed by the server that this is to be eaten like a cabbage/lettuce wrap. To me, this one was a bit of a miss. I felt like the red onion overpowered the delicate flavor of the lobster. It was certainly not a bad dish, but I wouldn't order it again. Roy thought the onion was spot on, but also thought the dish was one of the less spectacular dishes.

Tiradito 'Live Scallop'

Roy and I didn't know what to expect here. Scallop sashimi is probably my favorite plain sashimi to get at a good sushi place, so I figured I'd like whatever they brought here. Wow, I was pretty impressed with this dish. The presentation was great. It was about 1 or 2 big scallops worth of thinly sliced scallop sashimi. Each slice had some fresh black pepper (but it wasn't standard black pepper I don't think. It was more like flakes instead of chunks of a peppercorn. Almost like the sea salt, of black papper.), a tiny tiny piece of cilantro in the center, with a drop of a chile sauce on it. It looked absolutely amazing and the flavor profile was spot on imo.

'Kumamoto' Oyster with Nobu Sauces

I guess with this there are 3 sauces it can come with and the chef sort of arbitrarily decides which to give you. Ours was something like a bruschetta topping, but without all the balsamic. Basically just a light tomato/herb/spice mixture. This was another dish that I didn't like much. Roy exclaimed that his was the best oyster he's ever had. They were a bit small, and not as briney as I like. I prefer my oysters bigger and with a little cocktail sauce. Nice and simple. Maybe a little squirt of lemon juice.

Squid 'Pasta' with Light Garlic Sauce

I thought this would be like Squid cut to form very long thin strips, like mock spaghetti, but instead it was like mock castellane. It also had a lot of shitake mushrooms and baby asparagus. I thought this dish was great. The sauce was mild enough that you were tasting the fresh ingredients, but it definately added a nice flavor. The contrast of colors and textures in this dish were really great.

Castellane:


Black Cod with Miso

This is a cooked piece of black cod with a sweet miso sauce. I also had this at Nobu Atlantis before and liked it very much. Roy didn't care much for this dish, thinking the sauce was too sweet. I thought it was just right. The fish was nice and moist and flavorful. It was cooked just right, there isn't much worse than overcooked seafood. It's pretty rare that you have fish that's seasoned with something that's sweet, so I think this is a pretty excellent treat.

Roy and I decided this food was too great, and we weren't quite full yet.

We ended up getting another order of the oysters (silly Roy), the yellowtail, and also trying one new dish:

Monkfish Pate with Caviar:

It is just what it sounds like, and it came with a pretty nice thin mustard sauce. Unfortunately, neither Roy or I much care for Monkfish Pate, but we did not know this until we tried it. I think it was probably pretty good for what it was, but it's not really something I liked. We thought it would be more like Foie Gras, but it was quite a bit more firm and dry.

annnnd dessert.

Milk Chocolate Mousse Filled with Vanilla Cream, Caramelized Salted Nuts with a Raspberry Reduction Sauce, and Strawberry Balsamic Sorbet.

The mousse was quite delicious. On top there was a paper thin melted sugar.........thing. It made for a neat presentation. I was hoping to taste more balsamic in the sorbet, but it ended up just being more like a really delicious strawberry sorbet with a little hint of something else. It was topped with gold flakes which looked nice and made us feel a bit more wealthy than we really are. Overall a very delicious dessert, but I personally was slightly letdown by the proposition of a creative sorbet that turned out to be "just" deliciously standard.

I also, at the request of Roy, got some Hennesay XO Cognac. LOL. Every time I would go to sip it, I would breath in and burn my nostrils before I even sipped. It was pretty gross, as I think almost all alcohol is. Roy of course thought it was delicious.

Also, Roy and I aren't gay.

Adam Junglen is one of the chip leaders at the end of day 1b.

Let us GOGOGOGOGOGO.