Is the best sushi restaurant in America in Terre Haute?

Ahem! Now that I have your attention. Well, perhaps not, but Sushi Umi was one of the dozen best sushi meals I have had in the United States, and arguably the best maki I ve eaten between New York and California. I was in Terre Haute this weekend for a conference, and at the suggestion of Dr. Tom Adams of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (my son is a student there), I tried Sushi Umi. Dr. Tom has a webpage: Dr. Tom s Guide to Terre Haute for the Cultural Bereft: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~adams1/bereft.html which deserves your attention, should you be traveling on I70. Sushi Umi is run by Chef Qi. Yes, a Chinese chef, hailing from Shanghai. Chef Qi was trained by a Japanese sushi chef in Indianapolis, and whatever he was taught, he has certainly taken to the craft. It must be confessed that the Nigiri suffer just a bit from the fact that fish come through Chicago, and so are slightly less fresh than what one would find in a city with direct transportation. However, Chef Qi makes ...  more