Al Desko: Seared salmon and asparagus salad

What: seared salmon and asparagus salad with cucumber, £5.95, and cucumber and wakame salad, £1.95

Where from: Tsuru sushi, branches across London, tsuru-sushi.co.uk/

Taste assessment: Sushi, if you’re handy with chopsticks and don’t get the dressing everywhere, is pretty well perfect desk food. Tsuru’s offering is a pleasant assembly of seared salmon, halved prawn and a couple of asparagus spears, over a green salad and rice. Asparagus isn’t the obvious Japanese ingredient but it works fine. The fish is fresh. And they say the salmon is sustainably farmed. The ratio of cucumber to seaweed is biased in favour of the cucumber, but then I have a thing about seaweed.

As ever, when you eat sushi, you feel more virtuous afterwards than if you’d eaten nothing at all. Perfect girl food.