President Obama started his trip to Asia in a way that has made foodies everywhere jealous: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took him to Sukiyabashi Jiro, the three-Michelin star temple of sushi made famous by the documentary, Jiro Dreams of Sushi. And what did Obama think? “That’s some good sushi right there,” he told reporters, clearly foreshadowing his post-White House career as an extremely succinct food critic.

Chef Jiro Ono’s Sukiyabashi Jiro only has ten seats (it’s notoriously difficult to to get reservations) in its restaurant, which is in a basement next to a metro station. Joining Obama and Abe were US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy and national security adviser Susan Rice. No other details about the meal were offered, but a CNN travel writer went there a few years ago and provided a mouthwatering account of his meal.

Jiro’s exacting standards are seen in the documentary, Jiro Dreams of Sushi. The film also inspired a restaurateur to contact one of Jiro’s chefs to open a restaurant in NYC, which the NY Times gave four stars.

As The New Yorker put it two years ago, “Though Japan has declared him a national treasure, he still says, at the age of eighty-five, ‘All I want to do is make better sushi.'”