Sushi is...

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@RealityChuck

As I get older, I learned that bait is pretty good – sushi, clams, calamari.

I agree with the “As I get older…” part. I’ve noticed my tastes changing over the years as well. I prefer rarer meats these days than I did as a kid. I like spicier foods now, too. I used to hate tomatoes - now I think the taste of a fresh-picked tomato, warm from the sun is right up there with sex. But sushi remains firmly fixed in my mind under “Low Tide Stuff - Non-Edible.”

[Leaper]

… Not sashimi.

[cmkeller]

Heh. I’ve always wondered if I was the only person in the world who was pretty indifferent to sushi. I’m not disgusted by it, but never got what the big deal is, taste-wise.

[gnoitall]

@pulykamell

Sushi can absolutely be vegetarian. There need not be anything “so-called” about it. The common ingredient across sushis is the vinegared rice. I"ve heard it said that one of the tests of a great sushi chef is their tamago nigiri (which is an egg omelet sushi.) Sometimes, though, that is not vegetarian, as the egg part may contain dashi, a broth that has dried fish in it.

And seaweed usually isn’t part of sushi, unless you’re doing maki rolls (and, well, sometime it is used to affix the topping to nigiri.)

Another classic example: Inarizushi. Sushi rice in a pouch of fried tofu. Yum. Meatless, seaweed-less, wasabi-less. So good that it’s the Rice Goddess’ favorite. And who would know better than the Rice Goddess?

[Typo_Negative]

Individual pieces of raw fish? Meh.

The sushi roll? Yum!

[vix]

Delicious! I love all the Japanese food I’ve tried, including sushi.

[pulykamell]

@Typo_Negative

Individual pieces of raw fish? Meh.

OK, I’ll be that nitpicky guy. Individual pieces of raw fish are not sushi. Sushi requires rice–that’s the entire defining aspect of sushi, the vinegared rice. Raw fish on its own is usually a type of sashimi.

[snfaulkner]

To those of you who hate sushi because of the oceany/fishy taste, you are eating BAD sushi. Go where it is fresh and re-try it. I used to hate it when I was in Ohio. now I love it out here in CA.

BTW, Fuck you, Bluefin for being so god damn, eye wateringly YUMMY and EXPENSIVE! (2 bites costs $15 at my local joint). I can easily drop many $$$ on bluefin alone. You can really taste the conservationists tears though, and they are delicious.

[Digital_is_the_new_Analog]

…what I had for lunch today. Salmon special, please.

[Mahaloth]

@kayaker

Beyond delicious. I could give up every other cuisine and have just sushi for the rest of my days.

Not quite for me, but I could go a month or two living on Sushi.

I love it.

[zoid]

@MoonMoon

Word to this. It disgusts me on every level - taste, texture and smell. Factor in the scavenger/sea bug aspect and I honestly can’t see how anyone eats anything that lives in water.

Sushi is an elaborate practical joke played on the world by the Japanese. Good on you, Japan, but you didn’t get me.

Just for you…

Japanese restaurant joke

[Jackknifed_Juggernaut]

@MoonMoon

?..Sushi is an elaborate practical joke played on the world by the Japanese. Good on you, Japan, but you didn’t get me.

I’ve been a sushi consumer for most of my life and have recently come to a similar conclusion; to me most sushi is not so much a joke but more like a scam. Its appeal is mostly due to marketing and presentation. However, it’s really quite boring, kind of tastes the same, and requires soy sauce and wasabi to give it any real flavor or depth. These days, the only sushi I will eat is inventive omakase, where a chef makes individual pieces, combining a selection of high-grade fish with various condiments. In New York, my favorite is Sushi of Gari on the upper east side. The omakase is always a work-of-art. But I can only afford this maybe once-a-year.

[Leaper]

@snfaulkner

You can really taste the conservationists tears though, and they are delicious.

So wanting to keep bluefin tuna from going extinct is a… bad thing? Or do you just think it won’t happen anyway?

[zoid]

@Jackknifed_Juggernaut

I’ve been a sushi consumer for most of my life and have recently come to a similar conclusion; to me most sushi is not so much a joke but more like a scam. Its appeal is mostly due to marketing and presentation. However, it’s really quite boring, kind of tastes the same, and requires soy sauce and wasabi to give it any real flavor or depth. These days, the only sushi I will eat is inventive omakase, where a chef makes individual pieces, combining a selection of high-grade fish with various condiments. In New York, my favorite is Sushi of Gari on the upper east side. The omakase is always a work-of-art. But I can only afford this maybe once-a-year.

I kind of agree with this. Good sushi is heaven but it’s hard to come by and expensive. The majority of it is fair at best and not worth the money.

[snfaulkner]

@Leaper

So wanting to keep bluefin tuna from going extinct is a… bad thing? Or do you just think it won’t happen anyway?

I think it’s GONNA happen regardless. Might as well eat while I can.

Actually, lemme rephrase…

[snfaulkner]

missed edit window…
While I don’t think that any species should go extinct (except maybe humans), I’m not going to not eat the yummiest fish when I go to the sushi joint unless I can’t afford to. Which right now, I can only really afford to do once a month or so.

So my comment about the conservationists just means that they aren’t going to guilt me out of enjoying it.

[quiltguy]

Not a fan at all, but the gang wanted to go tonight. Had some fugu sushi, but now I’m not feeling so hot. Any ideas? :eek:

[snfaulkner]

@quiltguy

Not a fan at all, but the gang wanted to go tonight. Had some fugu sushi, but now I’m not feeling so hot. Any ideas? :eek:

Get The Holy Bible book on tape read by Larry King.

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@quiltguy

Not a fan at all, but the gang wanted to go tonight. Had some fugu sushi, but now I’m not feeling so hot. Any ideas? :eek:

I don’t believe you. Fugu sushi is pretty unusual. Fugu is generally served as sashimi, or cooked. I grew up in Japan, I’ve had plenty of fugu, and I’ve had plenty of sushi, but never fugu sushi.

[Smapti]

@DrFidelius

Asking if you like sushi is like asking if you like soup. There are some styles/ types that I think are amazing, and others that I would hesitate to eat even if I were starving.

This is exactly the comparison I had in mind when I saw this thread. The only thing that all kinds of sushi have in common is the rice. You’ve got everything from inari sushi with nothing but rice and bean curd, to California rolls with cooked surimi, to nigiri sushi with a strip of raw fish resting atop a hunk of rice, to fusion dishes like what one local restaurant calls the John Holmes roll - an extra-thick roll of salmon, green onion, avocado, cream cheese, jalapeno, and surimi, battered, deep-fried, and topped with special sauce after being arranged so that it resembles a giant penis.

Personally, I like sushi rolls with raw salmon or tuna, but I don’t care for eel or octopus or real crab. Surimi, like one encounters in California rolls, I find tolerable, more so when topped with raw fish as a rainbow roll. The Seattle roll (smoked salmon, avocado, cucumber, and cream cheese) is probably my favorite.