some photos:
My review: the filling is sub-par but ‘not too bad.’ I like that it’s always cooked, never raw. The shrimp on the sushi sashimi platter has a nice chewy consistency to it. The rice, however, is horrible.
…is the age of the “industrial sushi” upon us? The answer is no!
Well, it is, really. Just not good industrial sushi.
I moved from MPSIMS to Cafe Society.
I did not, however, completely re-punctuate the thread title to reflect the apparent intention of the OP.
twicks, not just a mod, but a copy editor
That’s not sushi, except under the loosest of terms.
Uh I hate “California” style sushi or any sushi that includes cream cheese, carrots, or broccoli.
If you produce sushi that includes more than raw fish and rice and nori then you are committing blasphemy!
Such things never fly in Hawaii. It’s usually the quality of the rice. Sushi was never designed to be ideally refrigerated. But such is the realities of modern life or should I say health code. A really good sushi rice will withstand cold temps well and remain supple cold. And if necessary will revive when left to warm to room temperature. While regular Japanese rice can successful be used for sushi, but not if you want to last a while. Use a sushi grade rice, just like you use sushi grade fish.:dubious:
If there’s vinegar in the rice, it’s sushi. It might not look like particularly good sushi, but sushi it is. All the things below are sushi:
http://www.kitchenota.com/blog/upload_images/黒米の精進寿司.JPG
http://kitakyushu.nasse.com/image.php?id=94674
http://www.pref.mie.lg.jp/ONORIN/HP/shoku/osizusi.jpg
http://portal.nifty.com/cms_image/portal/club/071007038231/015_l.jpg
The last picture, in particular, will show you that even here in Japan sushi can be horribly abused.
ouryL is right, though. The worst thing about bad sushi outside of Japan is the rice.
You guys, I think we’ve uncovered kstarnes’ secret identity!
Is… is that a hot dog on a block of sushi rice?
And it looks like it has catsup on it!
Japan loves to put hot dogs on totally inappropriate food items. Pizza, sushi…bleh.
I don’t understand why anyone would try to make frozen sushi. Rice freezes horribly.