Russian Japanese Restaurants

[Mulboyne]

[omae mona]

[Charles]

...Unlike some sushi bars where most of the chairs are regularly occupied by Japanese, the bright, newly expanded one at Taiko attracts many non-Orientals...

...and everyone knows, the way to identify the best sushi bar is to find one where the Japanese don't go.

[Mulboyne]

A few problems, it seems:

TMC: 50% of Japan restaurants in Moscow serving less fresh dishes

About half of Japanese restaurants in Moscow surveyed are offering sushi and other Japanese dishes whose freshness is below government-set levels, Russian news media reported Friday. The government's bureau in charge of economic crime carried out the survey, prompted by the outbreak of a mass food-poisoning incident at a Japanese-style restaurant, the reports said. Bureau officials have found numerous foodstuffs several weeks or months past their expiration dates when they examined freshness of sushi, sashimi and other items, according to the Interfax news agency an other local news outlets. The government has decided to file criminal complaints against those restaurants which continue to use expired ingredients even after being ordered to improve operations. Sushi and other low-calorie Japanese foods are popular among health-conscious Russians in Moscow.

[GomiGirl]

Damn - I will be in Moscow next week. Note to self - no Japanese restaurants.

BTW any suggestions of must see things in Moscow. Am only there for a few days on business but there will be a few times when we can escape. Naturally the whole Red Square thing but I have been too busy to look at a guide book.

[Jack]

A few problems, it seems:

TMC: 50% of Japan restaurants in Moscow serving less fresh dishes

This sounds a lot like the Chinese-Japanese restaurants in Canada. Cutting corners wherever they can trying to make it as cheap as any Chinese food. when I go to a sushi restaurant I go straight to the counter and speak with the chef. If not Japanese, I walk right back out. I'm getting sick and tired of Mexicans making sushi in the US or Chinese and Vietnamese posing as sushi chefs in Canada.

[Mulboyne]

Moscow News: Sushi Showdown

It's hard to believe that only a few years ago sushi was considered a rare and exotic food in Moscow. Today, a five minute stroll will take you past at least one outlet of the capital's many chains, not to mention the countless restaurants and clubs that offer a Japanese menu alongside European or Russian dishes. As the perfect antidote to heavy, starchy Russian cuisine, and the ideal solution for skinny Russian girls who want to meet up in restaurants without consuming too many calories, it looks like the Japanese rolls might be here to stay. The Moscow News takes stock of four of the city's ubiquitous sushi houses...more...

The reviewer quotes an English reporter's advice concerning writing about Japanese restaurants:

Writing about sushi is always a slight struggle, since generally reporting either that they made you ill or that they didn't is as far as it seems sensible to go

[Mulboyne]

[IkemenTommy]

Unlike some sushi bars where most of the chairs are regularly occupied by Japanese, the bright, newly expanded one at Taiko attracts many non-Orientals.

Are you still allowed to use that term? I thought the correct way of saying that was a-hem.. Asian.

[Greji]

Are you still allowed to use that term? I thought the correct way of saying that was a-hem.. Asian.

Only with dudes. With women it is YBF'rs