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Let's talk sushi, mainly because I just watched a really weird game show all about sushi (Japanese TV being... interesting to say the least).

So, do you partake? Would you partake? What do you like and what would you never, ever, try? And do you know what sushi actually is?

As for me, my favorite sushi is oinarisan.
http://blog.hokkaido-np.co.jp/vege/oinarisan.jpg

I can eat these suckers by the boatload.

Sushi's a girls food!

Eat meat pies instead!

*Manly grunt*

Salmon (smoked or not), tuna, real crab, lots of others. Moving from Seattle to North Dakota has basically cut me off. :(

I don't really like sushi. I prefer grains. LOTS of grains, esspicially scones. Isn't sushi named for the rice? *ponders, wikis*

Sushi's a girls food!

Eat meat pies instead!

*Manly grunt*
You wouldn't say that if you ever stared down some of the sushi they have over here.

I've always wanted to try a sushi diet, where that's all I eat. Expensive, but I'd be healthier! Unagi (http://www.flavorj.com/~skysea/sushi/unagi.jpg) is my favourite, I always have 2 or 4 for dessert ;)

You wouldn't say that if you ever stared down some of the sushi they have over here.

Indeed. :::thinks of the "Russian Roulette" plate at a sushi place I know - six pieces, one of which is loaded with about 10x the normal wasabi...:::

Personnaly, I prefer sashimi - ika, toro, tsunagimo, and basashi. (I love ceviche, as well, b ut haven't found a trustworthy place in ages!)

Indeed. :::thinks of the "Russian Roulette" plate at a sushi place I know - six pieces, one of which is loaded with about 10x the normal wasabi...:::

Personnaly, I prefer sashimi - ika, toro, tsunagimo, and basashi. (I love ceviche, as well, b ut haven't found a trustworthy place in ages!)

Mmmm! Wasabe bombs! Great for clearing the sinuses!

i don't know the names of any of them, but little round slices of stickey rice surround by a ring of nori, with or without raw fish in the middle, are just fine with me. i really haven't had very many of the raw fish ones, which i guess are the real traditional ones. the couple of those that i've had, like i said, i don't have the slightest idea what their names were, but i loved them anyway. i've made some of my own too. obviously not tradional ones cause, like i say, i don't really know enough about them. i mean i've seen the little charts and pictures, but its not the sort of thing i'm most likely to remember, or refer to often enough to be likely to. out here where i live we have what we call california rolls, which are the rice and nori, but vegitarian in the middle, things like avacado and mushrooms and like that. that reconstituted fish/imitation crab meat makes a good one two. that's what i used in mine. that and the avacado ones. there's a bunch of different kinds of one's they've got in the stores and i like all of those.

i haven't been to a real sushi place, cause i hear their kind of expensive. or maybe that's just the bad press from mundanes who are afraid of anything that isn't the warm oatmeal their mommies fed them for breakfast, but anyway, i don't think i've been to a place that's just a sushi place as such. but there is one place i've been to a couple of times that has it on their buffette and i've had a bunch of their different kinds too.

anyway, its one of those things that hasn't eaten me first, so of course i'll eat it. and like i say, what i've had i like, even if i can't remember what any of it's called.

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I hate seafood. Except for tuna salad and calamari, I won't eat anything that lives in water.

I love sushi. Especially sweet shrimp, octopus, spicy tuna, salmon and eel.

I'm one of those terrible sushi eaters that never quite knows what he's eating, but loves it.

Chicken.

Damn I'm boring.

i have not had much chance to try sushi but there is one sushi dish that has fascinated me ........the fabled FUGU the idea of a dish containing the razors edge of toxicity just enough to tingle not enough to kill, a dish so dangerous that they give you a round of applause just for ordering it ........WOW.

its just such a shame i would have to go all the way to japan to try it :(

Chicken.

Damn I'm boring.

Depends. Most people I know won't eat raw chicken bits... But I've heard tell some folks eat cooked chicken sushi.

i have not had much chance to try sushi but there is one sushi dish that has fascinated me ........the fabled FUGU the idea of a dish containing the razors edge of toxicity just enough to tingle not enough to kill, a dish so dangerous that they give you a round of applause just for ordering it ........WOW.

its just such a shame i would have to go all the way to japan to try it :(

Point the first: it's not that rare or special or "tingly".
Point the second: I've had fugu many times and never been applauded.
Point the third: it's available outside Japan, AFAIK.

Yeah, they serve fugu in a lot of places. No applause. And other than the novelty of trying it for the first time, I wouldn't order it again. It's not bad, but it's not nearly as good as other sushi.

"The Taste of Death" is pretty much an appetite killer.

Point the first: it's not that rare or special or "tingly".
Point the second: I've had fugu many times and never been applauded.
Point the third: it's available outside Japan, AFAIK.

I thought (in Japan anyway) only certified cheifs could use Fugu?

what I like?

Various Maki, Temaki sushi. not to fond of the roe, but I LOVE Maguro! :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIlClLdCQDI

I make these for my girls when I make them Bento lunch on Fridays.

I always thought the thing in the OP's picture was inari. I have been lied to.

As for favorite sushi: a place near the paper where I used to work made a California Crumble to die for--California roll topped with unagi, unagi sauce and crumbled tempura. Mmmmm.

I always thought the thing in the OP's picture was inari. I have been lied to.

As for favorite sushi: a place near the paper where I used to work made a California Crumble to die for--California roll topped with unagi, unagi sauce and crumbled tempura. Mmmmm.

it is.

oinarisan

Just like a Burger is still a Hamburger.

I'm one of those terrible sushi eaters that never quite knows what he's eating, but loves it.
Same here, I like it. I don't really care that much what it is anyway. One day I was eating some delicious stew or something and we all liked it. Then my brother came along "That's horse, lol", my mum and sister immediatly went "Eeewwwwwwwww" but the stupid thing is: it won't taste different after you say something like that, I just sad "O" and continued eating. Same with squid once.
Anyway, you can barely get sushi around here, but the times I did eat it, it was gooood.

Let's talk sushi, mainly because I just watched a really weird game show all about sushi (Japanese TV being... interesting to say the least).

So, do you partake? Would you partake? What do you like and what would you never, ever, try? And do you know what sushi actually is?

As for me, my favorite sushi is oinarisan.
http://blog.hokkaido-np.co.jp/vege/oinarisan.jpg

I can eat these suckers by the boatload.

I know I could eat sushi every day and be a happy camper. Sushi´s just awesome! My favorites are salmon, smoked salmon and avocado, unagi, avocado roll, kappa roll, crispy roll and tuna. I love it all!!

I'm one of those terrible sushi eaters that never quite knows what he's eating, but loves it.

Yeah me too...

Maybe now Wheel of Fish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KezvwARhBIc) can be an actual game show!

Of course I like all sushi... just not the ones with shellfish for obvious reasons.

I don't really like sushi. I prefer grains. LOTS of grains, esspicially scones. Isn't sushi named for the rice? *ponders, wikis*

Isn't rice a grain and isn't sushi mostly rice :rolleyes:

Isn't rice a grain and isn't sushi mostly rice :rolleyes:

yes, rice is a grain. you can't expect city folk to know that though, they think corn is a vegetable. :p

Mmm, sushi.

I like pretty much every kind of sushi I've tried so far, but no matter how good various complicated rolls or weird marine lifeforms are, I just keep coming back to the plain old deliciousness of the humble salmon roll. Mmmmm....

yes, rice is a grain. you can't expect city folk to know that though, they think corn is a vegetable. :p

I though corn was a fuel. :confused:

Yep, I love sushi & sashimi. My favourites are unagi & ebi, I even tried raw horse (for the hell of it) & it was actually pretty good.

I always thought the thing in the OP's picture was inari. I have been lied to.


This Inari (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/A_man_confronted_with_an_apparition_of_the_Fox_goddess.jpg)?

I think certain quarters may object to that. :p

Really good toro is simply something else, the equivalent of foie gras in terms of melt in the mouth.

Once you've had really good toro, regular stuff doesn't quite cut it.

Begging the question, what, in Japan, is considered the finest delicacy?

This Inari (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/A_man_confronted_with_an_apparition_of_the_Fox_goddess.jpg)?

I think certain quarters may object to that. :p
Well, THAT Inari happens to like fried tofu, which is what gives the sushi oinarisan, its name.

Begging the question, what, in Japan, is considered the finest delicacy?
Hmm... hard to say, but I THINK most Japanese would say maguro, blue fin tuna. A REALLY good one is like eating heaven, it's also damned expensive.

Hmm... hard to say, but I THINK most Japanese would say maguro, blue fin tuna. A REALLY good one is like eating heaven, it's also damned expensive.

A quick check and it seems I'd have eaten Otoro, which seems the most prized part of tuna - Maguro is the type of fish, bluefin as opposed to yellowfin tuna but it's the part that determines the price, and Otoro is the fattiest part of the belly - admittedly this is off a quick googling.

I just remember the melt-in-the-mouth - I was lucky enough not to even see the bill. I was told it was a special treat as a guest. It sure was.

Well, THAT Inari happens to like fried tofu, which is what gives the sushi oinarisan, its name.

I was fairly sure it was her servants, rather than herself.