Sushi!!!!
We all went out as a family and had Chinese food tonight. This is a pretty rare thing these days as it costs a bunch for us all to go out. Anyways, I find it quite surprising how many Chinese restaurants have sushi since it is after all Japanese. I find it even funnier that most people even though having never tried sushi, think it is the most disgusting thing ever. First of all most places in small towns don’t serve REAL sushi and what they end up selling is usually full of cooked ham, shrimp, and crab-meat. SO, after eating there many times and seeing that they had real sushi along with all the other stuff that they were actually getting quite creative with it. A few weeks ago I stopped and talked to the lady who runs the place and to my surprise she actually had a Japanese sushi chef working for her and before he left taught her the craft. I know most buffets have a very limited arrangement of stuff like sushi but they have converted a once dead grill section into a small sushi buffet and it is quite nice. I can’t seem to get enough of it. I challenge anyone out there who thinks sushi is gross without trying it to find a place that specializes in sushi and try it before you say ick. Most of these places will be found in a larger city with a large Asian community, but sometimes you just get lucky.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
As long as it is made with shari (a prepared rice) it is sushi. You can fill or top the rice with anything and it is still sushi. It’s funny how Americans don’t know this, which is what you are getting at here.
Also, it’s funny that people think it is perfectly okay for Americans to make sushi, but when the Chinese do, it’s odd. I’d rather have Chinese chefs making my sushi rather than American Chefs. But even that doesn’t matter. As long as it is the right rice, you can throw a McD’s cheeseburger on there and it is still sushi. LOL
May 21st, 2008 at 11:30 pm
That’s funny I just had a conversation with a couple of 8-9 year olds about that very thing and they actually tried sushi for the first time and loved it, of course they didn’t have “the good stuff” but what they had was decent.