Sushi was invented in China more than 2,000 years ago
Takechanpoo, is there anything the Japanese have actually invented themselves?
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Sushi was invented in China more than 2,000 years ago
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A Japanese chef beat off challenges from rivals in the U.K., Russia and the U.S. last night to scoop the Sushi of the Year Award at a contest in London. Masashi Ogata, of Asahizushi restaurant, in Miyagi, won with his dish Golden Shooting Star, which recreates the taste and texture of shark's fin using vegetarian ingredients. His combination of Japanese seaweed, fruit syrup, avocado and even cornflakes impressed the judges, mostly westerners. They included the chef at the Fat Duck, Heston Blumenthal's restaurant west of London, whose menu includes snail porridge...more...
The executive chef of Sushi Ran, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Sausalito, California, beat challengers from the U.S., Europe and Japan to win the Sushi of the Year Award in London last night. Osaka-born Mitsunori Kusakabe triumphed with his Seven Rice Samurai dish, featuring the fermentation, frying, toasting, sauteing, roasting, freezing and extraction of rice. Other ingredients included sake, dried bonito shavings, kelp, dried pickled plum, white sesame, lemon and frozen raw wasabi. "Kusakabe's sushi stood out right from the start: It struck me as really different and exciting," Jun Tanaka, of Pearl restaurant in London, said in an e-mailed statement today from the organizers, Eat-Japan. "It had everything you could want in one dish, a complete experience in a single mouthful." The annual Seven Sushi Samurai contest, at the Eat-Japan Sushi Awards, brought together chefs from New York, London, Moscow and Hokkaido, and Malmo in Sweden. One was the first woman competitor, Silla Bjerrum, of Feng Sushi, in London. Apart from Tanaka, the judges included Henry Harris of Racine restaurant, Kyle Connaughton of the Fat Duck and the food writer Prue Leith. Pontus Johansson of Pontus Sushi, Malmo, came second in the event at London House, on Mecklenburgh Square. Bryan Emperor of Mr. Jones, New York, was third, while Shinya Ikeda of Yumi, London, was fourth. Bjerrum came sixth. The organizers said they sold 300 tickets at 90 pounds ($156) apiece.
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