This is a whole meal in itself. The roll is then wrapped in lettuce leaves, encircled with white rice, and rolled in tobiko. It comes warm to the table, and the spiciness warms you again. Here's a treat you don't get every day. Uni is raw sea urchin eggs, a pastel yellow-ochre color, and as mild and sweetly delicious as anything you'll ever eat.
Rice is topped with the soft, luscious roe and surrounded by a strip of black nori.
You get two pieces, served cold. It's expensive, but worth it, as it's only available seasonally. You get two pieces. If you don't like to recognize the critters you're eating, you might pass on this, as they are definitely two little baby octopi, all nicely orange-brown from their broiling. Bonito is a small tuna, generally less than 25 pounds, of moderate fat content, and the most strongly flavored of the tunas, which also include blue fin, yellowtail, and albacore.