# Worst sushi you've ever had? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398 "2009-09-17T02:52:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398/21 "2009-09-17T21:10:47Z")
A friend and I decided it would be a good idea to go to an all you can eat sushi place on Ventura Blvd (speaking of which, sushi bars on Ventura Blvd are like 7-11s, there’s one on every corner. I can’t believe there’s enough demand to sustain that many sushi shops on one street). We got out of the car, and as we were approaching the entrance, somoene opened the door to leave, and I caught a wiff of that horrible old fish smell. I immediately told him it was going to be bad but we tried it anyway. A little while later, I was sitting on a toilet with a bucket in my hands. Good Times, or something… Also, Sushi Mac is bad too. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398/22 "2009-09-17T22:53:43Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Wegman’s (upscale grocery) has a sushi chef behind a counter and he puts out a wide assortment of sushi and sushi-like items. The Hawaiian roll (about $10) is to die for, and there’s eel, tuna, shrimp, California roll… Sounds like the sushi counter in Harris Teeter. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398/23 "2009-09-17T23:03:07Z")
My wife (while she was still my fiancee) treated me to that balloon fish sushi that might kill you. It was kind of bland and dry. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398/24 "2009-09-18T00:27:20Z")
Swear to me you will never tell her if we show up at a dopefest, but it was my wife’s. Oh it was terrible. Actually, it was a California rolls I think. It was very sweet that she attempted it because she knew how much I loved them but it was the first time I have tried to hide food under a cushion since I was nine. It was that bad. And I couldn’t say, “Hey, this is terrible.” because she did it special for me. If people do things special for you, you can’t do that. Of course, because I praised it (why did I do that? – I know, I know, it was because I love her), She’s attempted it twice more. Oh God it was terrible. (She even got one of those minature bamboo roller thingys to make it more realistic). ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398/25 "2009-09-18T13:57:05Z")
I saw a make-your-own-sushi kit in Walmart, of all places. It seemed to be just sheets of the seaweed wrap that you fashion into a cone and fill with rice and whatever - the package had some suggestions, but of course it’s only as good as what you put into it. I had a recipe at one time for cold rice sushi salad, using shrimp, scallions, wasabi, rice vinegar, ginger, all that except for the seaweed wrap, and it was surprisingly quite tasty. If I find that recipe, I may buy that sushi kit. ---
**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 18, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398/26 "2009-09-18T14:47:26Z")
The worst sushi I’ve ever had came from a restaurant in Lisbon. Yeah, I know… what the heck do Portuguese people know about sushi? I still figured it would be decent, given that they certainly know their fish and have access to much fresher seafood than you’d find in inland Canada. I should have run away after they brought out the watery miso soup, but apparently I’m too much of an optimist for that. Our sashimi platter consisted of teensy slivers of mackerel (oily and fishy and nasty), salmon (mushy and fishy and nasty) and squid (rubbery and fishy and nasty), and a side of california rolls had been made with underripe soapy avocado. Worst part is that we paid 20 euros each for that meal. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398/27 "2009-09-18T16:02:24Z")
> [@Lucky\_13](#): > > Worst supermarket sushi I’ve had: Costco (haven’t tried Trader Joe’s). Oh God. Costco sushi is so bad that it’s become a running joke between me and my husband. The rice was sickly sweet, and so mushy that you couldn’t distinguish between individual grains of it. Only sushi meal I’ve ever not finished, I think. ---
**Author:** ![norvalnormal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@norvalnormal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norvalnormal)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398/28 "2009-09-18T17:31:57Z")
Slight hijack: Not sushi, but once purchased from a Foodtown (NJ) self-serve lunch buffet some pre-assembled stuffed grape leaves, and dunno what was up with the “rice” inside, it had the texture of farina boiled with not enuf water and was the color of athletic socks that have seen better days … ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398/29 "2009-09-18T18:03:33Z")
My college tried to make sushi. I was foolish enough to try it once, but just once. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398/30 "2009-09-18T23:59:05Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Oh God. Costco sushi is so bad that it’s become a running joke between me and my husband. The rice was sickly sweet, and so mushy that you couldn’t distinguish between individual grains of it. Only sushi meal I’ve ever not finished, I think. That was exactly what was wrong with the Jewel sushi I described in the OP. By the last few pieces, I was just tearing the rice away and eating only the fish. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sushi-youve-ever-had/510398.md?page=1)