# I. Love. Sushi. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782 "2008-09-16T01:54:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dr.Righteous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Dr.Righteous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Righteous)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782/41 "2008-09-16T18:07:31Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I think it’s Queens? So speaks the Upstater, who is vaguely aware that yes, there are five boroughs of NYC and knows not much else. I think they might have one in Manhattan, too. Sorry folks - there was an NYC location once upon a time, but no longer. > **[MinAdo.com is for sale | HugeDomains](https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=minado.com)** > > Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available. Minado does indeed rock - great place to try new stuff. Take one piece and if it sucks you know, and if not you have a new thing to add to your list. I go to the Little Ferry location… tons of turnover so everything is super fresh. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782/42 "2008-09-16T18:19:56Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I live in Seattle, and visit Boston regularly, and what you guys call “sushi” is barely worthy of the name. 😉 Y’all make great chowder, but you want good sushi, come out here to Seattle, or better yet Vancouver. If I’m coming out to Seattle, I’m coming out to see the houseboats. What an awesome concept. Do Want! ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782/43 "2008-09-16T19:03:09Z")
> [@Dr.Righteous](#): > > Sorry folks - there was an NYC location once upon a time, but no longer. > [http://www.minado.com/](http://www.minado.com/) _sobs_ ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782/44 "2008-09-16T21:19:45Z")
I have celiac’s disease - which means I have to stay away from wheat and gluten. Sushi was one of the only things I _loved_ that I didn’t have to give up. Of course, I have to double check which soy sauce they use and how they prepare their rice, but for the most part - it’s yum city! ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782/45 "2008-09-16T21:31:05Z")
I love all sushi except shark fin (too touch, perhaps not prepared correctly?) and octopus tentacles (sorry, just couldn’t get past the “suckers” on the bottom!) ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782/46 "2008-09-16T22:38:21Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > So for what it’s worth, avocado is entirely acceptable as a sushi ingredient for its conceptual role in the overall experience, if you see what I mean. > . Cool, i had no idea. Thanks for the info. I went to Japan on an exchange when I was in high school and more than a few of the students in the school I went to asked me “you’re from California? Is it true you put avocado in your sushi? _snicker snicker_” ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782/47 "2008-09-16T22:53:42Z")
> [@stucco](#): > > Cool, i had no idea. Thanks for the info. I went to Japan on an exchange when I was in high school and more than a few of the students in the school I went to asked me “you’re from California? Is it true you put avocado in your sushi? _snicker snicker_” Yu-san, at the eponymous Oakland sushi restaurant, claims to have invented the California roll. I don’t know about that, but I will say, the way Yu-san makes a California roll, it is absolutely transcendent. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782/48 "2008-09-16T23:11:48Z")
> [@Silver Tyger Girl](#): > > Rules / Guidelines. > > - The name is Japanese or Japanese related > Midori Sushi - Good > Sakura Sushi - Good > Cherry Blossom Sushi - good > Oh! Sushi - not so good (although it ended up being quite good) “Oh! Sushi” strikes me as an obvious pun on the Japanese prefix “o-”, so I’d say that one is Japanese. > [@Mosier](#): > > It is also the art of taking a few cents worth of ingredients and charging 7 to 20 bucks for something that wont get you full. **Mosier** has already apologized for his remarks, but I will agree with him that American sushi tends to be _very_ overpriced. I started eating sushi when I lived in Japan and had it all the time for lunch, but since I came back I eat it a lot less because it’s so expensive. I’m not even talking sushi made with expensive kinds of fish, but the cheapest and most basic sushi rolls that were once a staple of my weekday diet. Getting a box of cucumber rolls at a grocery store in Japan would be about $2, but could easily cost $5 or more in the US. That said, a normal sized box of sushi is, at any price, enough to satisfy my lunchtime hunger. I’ve never needed anything else to fill me up, just a drink to go with it. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782/49 "2008-09-16T23:59:15Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > Yu-san, at the eponymous Oakland sushi restaurant, claims to have invented the California roll. The author of the book I mentioned above asserts that it was created at a Los Angeles restaurant called Tokyo Kaikan by a chef named Mashita Ichiro in the early-to-mid-60s. This is corroborated by the [Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_roll). ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782/50 "2008-09-17T00:50:58Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > I will bet very good money that the majority of fish found in sushi restaurants in coastal US cities was not caught within a thousand miles of the area, if even that close. I’ll also add the bet that most inland US cities get their sushi-grade fish from the same places and with very little shipping time added on to get it there. > > I hear this a lot when I’m visiting the East or West Coast, but unless the person is talking about lobsters in Maine, dungeness crab in San Francisco, etc., most of the seafood on the coasts really isn’t that local and may be caught off a different continent entirely. It’s more of a lamenting about fresh fish dishes that I get in FL than sushi in general. The closer to the coast and the further away you are from chains around here, the better the fish. I’m personally disappointed in some of my area, as we’re close enough to the attractions that we get an overload of chain restaurants and not too many local restaurants that cook well. Well, if you want anything besides Latin food, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782/51 "2008-09-17T01:24:22Z")
> [@nashiitashii](#): > > It’s more of a lamenting about fresh fish dishes that I get in FL than sushi in general. The closer to the coast and the further away you are from chains around here, the better the fish. I’m personally disappointed in some of my area, as we’re close enough to the attractions that we get an overload of chain restaurants and not too many local restaurants that cook well. Well, if you want anything besides Latin food, that is. I just ate at Saikyo tonight on Aloma by the bowling alley. It’s not amazing but it’s quite good and moderately priced. Every try it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-sushi/463782.md?page=2)