The Japan Times: June 24, 2004
There's sushi, and then there's SUSHI....a lot of shokutsu (gourmands) will say that sushi is meaningless without the stress of engaging in sushi warfare. Which brings us to the third kind of sushi: the kind served in upscale restaurants with counters that often have no price list, much less a menu, and force one to confer meekly with the stern, disciplinarian sushi chef every two minutes.
My brother refers to such fare as tatakai no sushi (combat sushi) and refuses to partake of it unless he's in aggressively good health and has just been paid, which very rarely happens at the same time.
