SUSHI, GOA AND OFF SEASON? I KNOW WHERE

Only sushi lovers can really understand what happen inside the head while experiencing the withdrawal symptoms of sushi. It's about chemicals reaction into the brain. Sometime, you get this "sushi call" and you cannot ignore it.

I've to say that sushi is also a food to be boycotted. Yes... taking the risk of being hypocrite, let me remind you the mercury contamination or massive degradations of fish species and the environmental impact that the sushi trend implies, just to say few. Eventually, we should boycott almost every food which is sold in the supermarket or restaurant, become vegetarian and engage ourselves in organic farming during our day off. Good luck with that.

Besides being a true sushi lover, I'm grateful to say that here in India, the Japanese speciality it's not available at every corner. Not like in many other countries. You do find sushi, but most of the time it sucks and it is overpriced. Being addicted is one thing, eat expensive shit is another.

Anyway, last night I was in the middle of these withdrawal symptoms from sushi and I couldn't really help it. Indeed, I infected my hubby. Like two junkies, we were going through the net in search of some restaurants in North Goa, calling each and every number we've got from the web. All restaurants were closed, under renovation or disappeared!

This is Goa during off season, a big contrast to the high season - so efficient, versatile, resourceful, multipurpose and handy.

The only solution available was the Tamari Restaurant at Vivanta by Taj, in Panjim. Awesome food, enchanting atmosphere but too far and too expensive. We decided to have some chinese food for consolation and we started to ride towards Calangute. On the way, a huge advertising board (and if you know Goa, you know what I mean for "huge advertising board") picturing the cutest tuna nigiri ever was waiting for us. That's how we came to know about Pan Global.

Pan Global is located at Neelams The Grand in Calangute. What makes this restaurant unforgettable are the chefs: handpicked to provide an authentic taste and experience from each known gastronomic location since the range of food varies from Mediterranean, Mexican, Arabic, Oriental and Japanese.

We order one mixed sushi plate (rolls, nigiri and sashimi, INR800 appx.) and two sashimi plate (tuna and salmon, INR500 per plate). It wasn't the best sushi of my life but it didn't suck either. We decided to order something else and we had the best baked salmon steak with garlic sauce ever, for the modest price of INR500... all washed down with a good bottle of white wine.

Here at Pan Global, you dine in an elegant atmosphere, you choose from an exclusive à la carte menu and you eat delicious international standard world cuisine, a combo achieved only by few restaurants in Goa.

Enjoy and let me know!

Images: Neelams The Grand, tripadviser

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