Sushi Singularity Stateside

[Samurai_Jerk]

Nothing says sushi like a propane torch and latex gloves.

[Takechanpoo]

[quote="Doctor Stop"]What about キ]
I have not known about キムパプ so far.
Kimchi claims,
"The origin of sushi is in kimchi peninsula nida!:devil2:"
"Sushi is our culture nida!:devil2:"
"Japs stoled sushi from Kimchi nida!:devil2:"
Because the origin of everything in the earth is in Kimchi peninsula.

[Doctor Stop]

キムパプ

[Mulboyne]

Nothing says sushi like a propane torch and latex gloves.

I'd already read the article and seen the picture but that still made me laugh.

[Taro Toporific]

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Reuters.com - "editors' choice" May 9, 2007. (TAIWAN)
Fish eyeballs and roe, a local delicacy, are pictured in Lanyu, or Orchid Island, about 65 kms (40 miles) from Taiwan's southeastern coastal city of Taitung May 9, 2007. The eyeballs and roe are eaten raw and are fondly referred to as "sashimi" dipped in wasabi....

[Mulboyne]

Kerala: False advertising leads to sushi fraud

The Chicago Sun-Times has revealed Sushi restaurants in Chicago may claim to be serving red snapper, but mostly use cheap substitutes. The newspaper said DNA tests were done on the sushi that was advertised as red snapper or "Japanese red snapper" bought from 14 restaurants around the city, but none of the samples was really red snapper. Most of the fish turned out to be tilapia, a cheap substitute, or red sea bream, which is almost as expensive but still not red snapper. "It's misbranding, and it's fraud," said Spring Randolph of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which oversees labeling of seafood. "From the reports that we have received, there has been an increase in species substitution. It is a problem," said another FDA official.

[Samurai_Jerk]

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Reuters.com - "editors' choice" May 9, 2007. (TAIWAN)
Fish eyeballs and roe, a local delicacy, are pictured in Lanyu, or Orchid Island, about 65 kms (40 miles) from Taiwan's southeastern coastal city of Taitung May 9, 2007. The eyeballs and roe are eaten raw and are fondly referred to as "sashimi" dipped in wasabi....

That had to have started as a drunken dare.

[Charles]

That had to have started as a drunken dare.

When someone offers me something weird like that, I usually say "you first."

[American Oyaji]

I went out for sushi last night.

I went to Otani because I had not been there in a while. They have a new Japanese chef at the sushi bar and we chatted about this and that while I ordered.

Well, he says to me, you should try other sushi than your favorites, and I looked at him as he told me that my favorites were the salmon and tuna. He had me pegged dead to rights. So I ask him for two pieces of sushi, his choice.

He gave me Hirame no Engawa. It was like nothing I had ever tasted. And it was not the standard slap slice of fish on the rice...OH NO! Nor was their soy sauce to dip it into.
There was a type of mint leaft that was included and then some ground ginger on it and then gave me ponds sauce. The taste exploded in my mouth!!!

I think I will start to expand my sushi selection. I am a creature of habit. when I go to restaurants, I don't get anything new. I get what I know I'll like because I've had it before.

[Taro Toporific]

Kerala: False advertising leads to sushi fraud

Something Smells Fishy -- And Like Rectal Leakage, Too
Mon Jun 11, 2007 at 06:27:00 AM - miaminewtimes.com
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) in Tallahasee has doubled the fine for any proven offense of food misrepresention in dining establishments ...
Seafood seems to be the main culprit in this bait-and-switch tactic. Eight South Florida restaurants -- three in Broward and fgive in Miami -- have been busted. The most common frauds perpetrated are the ones in which grouper is advertised, but pangasius (striped catfish) is substituted]http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/129466d668aefb40.jpg[/img]

[Catoneinutica]

Something Smells Fishy -- And Like Rectal Leakage, Too
Mon Jun 11, 2007 at 06:27:00 AM - miaminewtimes.com
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) in Tallahasee has doubled the fine for any proven offense of food misrepresention in dining establishments ...
Seafood seems to be the main culprit in this bait-and-switch tactic. Eight South Florida restaurants -- three in Broward and fgive in Miami -- have been busted. The most common frauds perpetrated are the ones in which grouper is advertised, but pangasius (striped catfish) is substituted]http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/129466d668aefb40.jpg[/img]

Mmm...rectal leakage (makes an fg natsukashii for the era of Olestra).

Escolar? Pablo Escolar? Pablo honey, we meees you!

-catone
-brain-damaged from varnish fumes

[AgentTofu]

I went out for sushi last night. I went to Otani because I had not been there in a while.

Otani has nice decor, and they know their sushi. Just wished the owners were more forgiving to their staff, and cleaned the joint more often.

[Taro Toporific]

Microtrends: [SIZE="3"]Ikizukuri[/SIZE]
The Times (UK) - June 16, 2007
The practice of eating live food is not as dead as you might think
At some point in its prehistory mankind would have routinely eaten living, or at least not entirely dead, creatures, but except for a little-known branch of Japanese cuisine called Ikizukuri....
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[Greji]

Microtrends: [SIZE="3"]Ikizukuri[/SIZE]
The Times (UK) - June 16, 2007
The practice of eating live food is not as dead as you might think
At some point in its prehistory mankind would have routinely eaten living, or at least not entirely dead, creatures, but except for a little-known branch of Japanese cuisine called Ikizukuri

I suppose eating all those nasty wiggling things is okay, providing of course, you have something refreshing to wash it down with!

[succubusqueen]

I suppose eating all those nasty wiggling things is okay, providing of course, you have something refreshing to wash it down with!

ewwww!:(

[GomiGirl]

ewwww!:(

It is a total photoshop jobbie - look at his hands..

[Mulboyne]

[Mulboyne]

[Taro Toporific]

[Taro Toporific]

CBS News
High school senior Kate Stoeckle and her father, Dr. Marc Stoeckle, discuss their freelance science project [color="Silver"](DNA analysis)[/color] which revealed that restaurants where serving sushi under false labels.

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via fark

[Bucky]

Matthew Lankford knew exactly how to get my attention, though he swears he didn't realize it at the time. Late last month, after finding my blog on a Google search, he sent me an email whose subject-line read: "Sushi for 21 days straight in Seattle." The body of his message had no text. Instead, he'd sent a link to his Flickr blog with a photo-spread. It chronicled, in smack-me-I'm-dreaming detail, raw-fish eye-candy of the first order, with photo after photo of Technicolor sushi.

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/allyoucaneat/2009/01/13/sushi_for_30_days_straight_he.html

[Taro Toporific]

[floatl][/floatl][SIZE="7"]TRAILER TRASH SUSHI[/SIZE]
aka "uramaki"
foodrockz.com/2009/03/13....I've always liked ketchup on hot dogs. I didn't want my sushi to be totally trailer park (like there's any way for a hot dog sushi roll not to be trashy), so I substituted some spicy roasted red pepper purée that was in my fridge for the ketchup that initially sprang to mind. . . . it was pretty good . . . and Kobayashi the Great would probably appreciate the tribute. Just looking at the photo makes be chuckle. I must be in the running for the Most Trailer Trash Sushi Of All Time award...more...

[Taro Toporific]

The YutaYoji.blog wrote
"...For my 7-year-old son's school lunch birthday party, my Japanese wife made faux sushi using Rice Crispy treats, Swedish Fish, Fruit Rollups and licorice. And of course she packed it all in a proper faux lacquer (plastic) sushi box...."

[Taro Toporific]

[SIZE="4"]REDNECK SUSHI [/SIZE]
---SuperTouch Blog, March 20th, 2009

[Taro Toporific]

"...That's a fishy outfit! Katy Perry wears a sushi-embroidered leotard during the MTV Video Music Awards in Saitama, Japan..."

---dailymail.co.uk

[BigInJapan]

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Commentary is in English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=fBcfpeiM-lg

[Taro Toporific]

June 18th is International Sushi Day
http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/articles/view/93/1/International-Sushi-Day.html

[Mulboyne]

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WSN: Protesters rally for workers' rights

More than 20 people picketed outside the West Village restaurant Kawa Sushi yesterday. They accused the restaurant of unjustly firing Tian Wen Ye, a delivery worker, for organizing other workers. According to Wen Ye, the owners of Kawa Sushi, Yi Xiang Cao and Yi Feng Wang, paid four men to threaten him after he attempted to unionize. When he reported the incident to police, he was told to wait outside the restaurant. While Ye waited, he was fired for not delivering food...This is not the first time Ye has had trouble with the owners. In March 2007 he was fired when he brought a complaint about low wages to the Department of Labor. "They've been making a lot of profit for both restaurants," Tsai translated for Ye. "But instead they only paid the workers $1.90 an hour, and we have to work 72 hours a week." Following the suit, the owners were ordered to pay back wages to Ye and other employees and to raise their base pay to $4.85 an hour, the New York State minimum wage for tipped delivery workers...more...

[Taro Toporific]

[Greji]

Katy Perry wears a sushi-embroidered leotard

I have just came down with this uncontrollable urge to go on a prawn eating binge......