Koi Group has just inked a deal with the Trump SoHo New York to operate the hotel’s ground-floor restaurant, Hotel Check-In has learned.

The restaurant is expected to open this summer, Ashley Berg, Koi’s publicist, tells me. Construction has not yet begun.

Koi also operates the popular Koi Bryant Park restaurant at the Bryant Park Hotel in midtown Manhattan.

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Examples of Koi’s contemporary Japanese signature dishes: “Crispy Rice topped with Spice Tuna” and “Miso-Bronzed Black Cod.”

Koi Group also has a free standing restaurant in West Hollywood, Calif., one inside the Planet Hollywood Resort Casino in Las Vegas, and another in Bangkok.

Troubled restaurant space

At the luxury Trump SoHo hotel, the restaurant company is taking over a space that has had trouble finding an identity.

In April 2010, it opened when the hotel opened as Quattro, and then just two months ago, it changed to “The Restaurant.”

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Article source: http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/post/2012/02/new-yorks-trump-soho-hotel-to-get-koi-restaurant/633037/1

After a $400 koi disappeared over the weekend from the Tsugawa Nursery in Woodland, it was pretty clear a water gardener had turned bad.

The daughter of the owners, Karen Tsugawa, told Cowlitz County sheriff’s deputies she believes someone is building a pond with stolen parts and fish.

The Daily News reports the nursery has been selling exotic plants and fish for more than 30 years, and this is the first time it has been hit by a rash of burglaries.

Information from: The Daily News
     
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Article source: http://www.katu.com/news/local/Woodland-nursery-thefts-implicate-koi-pond-builder-139773353.html

Article source: http://www.dichtbij.nl/noordkop/regionaal-nieuws/artikel/2274247/vlindorado-weer-open.aspx

After a $400 koi disappeared over the weekend from the Tsugawa Nursery in Woodland, it was pretty clear a water gardener had turned bad.

The daughter of the owners, Karen Tsugawa, told Cowlitz County sheriff’s deputies she believes someone is building a pond with stolen parts and fish.

The Daily News reports the nursery has been selling exotic plants and fish for more than 30 years, and this is the first time it has been hit by a rash of burglaries.

– The Associated Press

Article source: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2012/02/koi_pond_builder_likely_suspec.html

But a local collectors show dedicated to the fish turns 25 this
month and is just now hitting its stride. The San Diego Koi Club’s
silver anniversary show returns to the Del Mar Fairgrounds next
weekend and organizers are hoping for record crowds.

On Saturday and Feb. 26, some 3,000 koi enthusiasts will travel
from all over the country to exhibit, buy and sell koi (about 300
koi will be on display in large children’s-pool-size tanks). The
show also features fish displays, about 40 vendors, award
competitions and pond accessories for sale.

The San Diego show is one of the nation’s first koi shows of the
year as well as the largest, so koi dealers and breeders consider
it a “must” on their annual show tour. This year’s judges are
flying in from all over the country. Head judge is Grant Patton of
Charleston, S.C., a show breeder who has a 24,000-gallon home pond.
The judges select the award-winning koi in seven different classes,
taking their size, color, patterns, conformation and presentation
into account.

The show will open at 9:30 p.m. Saturday with a performance by
the Naruwan Taiko Drummers. The competition takes place Saturday,
with an awards ceremony that evening at Karl Strauss Brewery Garden
on Scranton Road (home to its own Japanese garden and koi pond).
But the highlight of the show for novice koi fans is at 10 and
11:30 a.m. Feb. 26, whien the judges will walk from pond to pond
and explain why they picked certain fish for the top prizes. The
judges’ comment period is usually of great interest to new
collectors, who can learn what judges look for in choosing
award-winning koi.

There is also a koi auction at 2 p.m. Feb. 25.

Show hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. Feb. 26 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds activity center at 2260
Jimmy Durante Blvd. in Del Mar. Show admission is free, but
fairgrounds parking is $10. Visit koiclubsandiego.org.

Article source: http://www.nctimes.com/entertainment/attractions/best-bet-koi-show-marks-silver-anniversary-next-weekend/article_21e97170-5193-5f78-ad6d-b1d7149a98d4.html

Educatief

In de tuin staan educatieve bordjes met veel informatie over de diverse vlinders en bij de entree kan een fotokaart meegenomen worden om de verschillende vlinders te zoeken. Voor de kinderen hebben wij een speurtocht waardoor het bezoek aan de vlindertuin nog leerzamer is. U kunt nu ook langs de rupsen ruimte lopen waar een aantal soorten vlinders gekweekt worden. De hoofdpaden in de tuin zijn verhard en daarmee prima geschikt voor een rolstoel of kinderwagen. Na de wandeling kan op het terras genoten worden van een drankje met uitzicht op de vlindertuin. Openingstijden: ma t/m za van 10.00-17.00 uur, zondag van 11.00-17.00 uur, Smeetsweg 12, Waarland (www.vlindorado.nl)

Article source: http://www.dichtbij.nl/noordkop/regionaal-nieuws/artikel/2273618/vlindorado-weer-geopend.aspx

A thief has now broken into Tsugawa Nursery in Woodland three
different times during the past month, making off with a pond
filter then a pond pump.

But over the weekend, the thief abducted a $400 koi fish.

Employees of the Tsugawa Nursery called Cowlitz County Sheriff
deputies Saturday after the expensive Japanese aquatic animal was
missing from their store.

Karen Tsugawa, daughter of the owners, said she believes whoever
stole the fish is attempting to put together his own personal
pond.

The Woodland nursery has been in the business of selling exotic
plants and fish for more than 30 years. The recent rash of
burglaries have been the first for the business, Tsugawa said.

Article source: http://tdn.com/news/local/thief-makes-off-with-koi-from-tsugawa-nursery/article_d671a2ea-5b96-11e1-844f-001871e3ce6c.html

The website invited us to feast our eyes on furnishings imported specially from India.

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We’d see the soft-silk tented ceiling and stunning marble floors and marvel at the imposing black granite wall of water “crossed by a glass bridge with koi carp swimming below.”

I was quite keen to take a look at what I imagined to be a genteel version of Blofeld’s piranha pool in You Only Live Twice.

“On the lower level, a vast projector screen featuring Bollywood films adds a new dimension to dining” ran the website blurb.

If we’d hoped to dine beside the wall of water or to the accompaniment of Bollywood movies, we were to be disappointed, however.

The “split-level” restaurant was on one level, and it was bereft of wall of water, movie screen and bridge over the river koi.

On the face of it, this seemed to be more than the mere embellishment of an establishment’s selling points.

It seemed like pure invention.

Having taken a good look around without finding a carefully-concealed glass bridge or granite wall of water, I casually raised the matter of the absent features with the waiter.

“That’s our Wolverhampton restaurant,” he said. Not according to the website it wasn’t.

Anyway, the Clayton Kavi is designed in an L-shape around an open kitchen, dining area nearest the wood-panelled corridor entrance done out in black and red.

We were shown to a table on the opposite side, where the decor is nondescript save for a lurid pink mural and the vast window into the kitchen.

This window would have been a positive feature if it had benefited in the recent past from a half-decent going over with the Windolene.

The menu at Kavi comes in the form of one large sheet, which will please those diners who are overwhelmed by menus that run to several pages, although it might not suit aficionados who value the full choice of dishes and styles of cooking.

Here the choice is between 13 generic starters and 17 main courses, although Herself’s king prawn biryani (£12.95) was listed as a side dish, as were the other biryanis.

This was huge disappointment. She was already vexed because a very promising fish dish advertised on the website was not on offer.

The biryani did not come with the usual spicy sauce, but with a dish of raita yoghurt. The prawns were mysteriously tough, the salad was perfunctory and the raita dip had an extremely unpleasant taste.

“If this is some kind of regional variation I won’t be ordering it again,” she grumbled.

She’d offered me a taste of the mysteriously tough prawns, but I declined on the grounds that I’ve never been fond of tough prawns.

I’m not sure why, but I’d ordered the lamb shank (£13.95), billed as “leg of baby lamb simmered in Kashmiri masala sauce.”

It was basically, a regular lamb shank, slowed cook and served with an admittedly rich and delicious sauce and perfectly-cooked basmati rice.

Like Herself, though, I won’t be ordering it again.

On a more positive note, we’d both thoroughly enjoyed our starters. Herself had tried the Aloo Matar Tikki (£5.25), which are patties of potato and green pease served with tamarind sauce. I was given a morsel of a patty and can confirm that they really were quite special.

My own choice of starter was Methi Machi (£7.25), which is salmon chunks, flavoured with fenugreek, and chargrilled.

Fenugreek is new to me, but Herself said it was often used by breastfeeding mothers to stimulate the supply of milk.

Fortunately, she told me this after I’d raved about the big meaty squares of salmon, wonderfully flavoured and expertly grilled.

Then it was Nightmare On Frozen Car Park II: Return To The Cresta Run.

And you thought the celebs on Dancing On Ice were inept.

Article source: http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Mystery-missing-bridge-river-koi/story-15256615-detail/story.html

• Photo: Eric England
• The Cherry Blossom Roll at Koi on Franklin Road.

In this week’s dining review, Carrington Fox checks out Koi Sushi Thai on Franklin Road in the Melrose neighborhood. It’s the sister restaurant to the original Koi, off Columbia Pike in Franklin. It’s owned by restaurateur Hang Bui and her family. Read the full review here.

An interesting aspect of Koi is that the restaurant has three specialties: sushi, Thai curries and Vietnamese pho, “a point that will make the eatery a convenient middle ground for dining groups with varying levels of seafood-friendliness and raw-readiness,” Carrington says. Reminds me of Bites’ earlier discussion of finding a convenient restaurant to suit all the co-workers at lunch.

Carrington also praises the vast, colorful array of sushi rolls depicted in photographs on the menu:

Rather than agonize over the options, you might as well close your eyes and point to a page, because without exception all our selections were beautifully constructed and arranged, with noticeably fresh ingredients in thoughtful balance of warm and cool, creamy and crisp, savory and sweet.

Wow, the close-your-eyes-and-point method is intriguing. Bites Nation, do you have any tricks for picking out the best stuff on a menu?

Article source: http://www.nashvillescene.com/bites/archives/2012/02/17/koi-sushi-and-thai-this-weeks-dining-review

Het bedrijf Koivijverwinkel.nl is deze week overgenomen door het bedrijf Daru-Koi uit het Noord-Brabantse Sprundel. Door de grote vraag aan complete koivijver filtersystemen is hiertoe besloten. Op deze manier kunnen beide bedrijven de klanten en vijverliefhebbers van dienst zijn. Om zelf een kijkje te nemen op de nieuwe en uitgebreide vijvershop kunt u surfen naar : www.daru-koi.com

Mvg Directie Koivijverwinkel.nl

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