Sushi Restaurant Dos And Donts

[Mulboyne]

[omae mona]

[Mulboyne]

I don't think "most" formal sushi restaurants serve no soy sauce but I have certainly been to a number where it isn't served - the chef having determined that you shouldn't need it.

[Charles]

Never bite in half and put remainder back on plate.

I remember seeing an interesting video about this subject. Someone asked why one serving of sushi (ichininmae) is two pieces. They did historical research and found an old ukiyo-e book full of pictures of sushi back from hundreds of years ago. Back then, each piece of sushi was HUGE, they were like monstrous rice balls with a half a fish slapped on the side. But women complained they couldn't eat them, their mouths were too small (I sensed a nascent nihonjinron here). So they started cutting the big sushi in half if customers asked for it. Eventually so many people asked for them to be cut in half, it was just easier to make them in two pieces.

[Mulboyne]

I was in Fukuzushi a few weeks ago and they cut even the normal-sized nigiri in half for my friend. She wasn't best pleased but didn't want to say anything. It's the first time I've ever seen that. I can only assume that they developed the custom because they served so many foreigners over the years (they opened in 1968 Roppongi) and many of them would have been uncomfortable eating it whole.

[Papa-Lazarou]

9. Dont show off like a cunt, just because you like natto and think your the only gaijin that does.

Hamamori: Yeah, that fucks me off

Abe: If i see another english teacher acting like he's William Adams just because he eats Natto now and again, ill break his fucking legs.

Kodama: Oh Aye, dont bring that shit in my house, you wont walk out if you do

Watada: Can i have another Pernod? i got wasabi in this one

[otakuden]

wow. awesome tidbits of information. i knew about eating sushi with ur fingers, but a lot of the other information was all new news to me. very cool

[tidbits]

I couldn't access the link anymore. I am just wondering if it is considered rude to just eat the fish and leave the rice when you are already quite full but still want to taste the fish. I understand some Japanese do that especially in Kaiten-Sushi.

[kamome]

I couldn't access the link anymore. I am just wondering if it is considered rude to just eat the fish and leave the rice when you are already quite full but still want to taste the fish. I understand some Japanese do that especially in Kaiten-Sushi.

My understanding is that this is very bad manners. Plus, couldn't you just order sashimi if all you want is the fish?

[omae mona]

I couldn't access the link anymore. I am just wondering if it is considered rude to just eat the fish and leave the rice when you are already quite full but still want to taste the fish. I understand some Japanese do that especially in Kaiten-Sushi.

Hey, I can top that. I put the plate with the uneaten rice back on the conveyor belt.

[AssKissinger]

Hey, I can top that. I put the plate with the uneaten rice back on the conveyor belt.

II mottainai!

[omae mona]

II mottainai!

You wouldn't say that if you saw how low it keeps my bill when they come to count plates.

[AssKissinger]

You wouldn't say that if you saw how low it keeps my bill when they come to count plates.

I was trying to say you're doing a good job at NOT being wasteful, oh well.

[omae mona]

I was trying to say you're doing a good job at NOT being wasteful, oh well.

Sorry, AK, missed your point. I am trying to increase my total post count by 20% today, and all this activity is making me disoriented.

[CrankyBastard]

I found this vid hilarious.
It's worth the wait to download.
http://www.conbinibento.com/media/sushi.wmv

[Mulboyne]

OC Weekly: Five Things You're Doing Wrong with Japanese Food

1. Mistaking Miso for Shiso Leaf

2. Mispronouncing Santuko vs. Santoku

3. Slurp vs. Not Slurp

4. Asking for Tonkatsu When you Want Tonkotsu

5. Ordering Sushi When you Want Sashimi...more...

[Coligny]

OC Weekly: Five Things You're Doing Wrong with Japanese Food

#1 eating it instead of feeding it to the dogs...

My cats are big time onto fried chicken... To the point where they'd get a job to buy it themselves if I was not providing them. (especially the Chicken Mc Nuggets, back home it was the friday night diner for Lanxade)

One day we brought them some KFC...

They smell it... look at it... and Douin (the japenese one) did the litter burial gesture to try to cover it. not a bite, not a chew... booth of them... I think we were lucky the didn't vomit on the carpet...

[IparryU]

#1 eating it instead of feeding it to the dogs...

My cats are big time onto fried chicken... To the point where they'd get a job to buy it themselves if I was not providing them. (especially the Chicken Mc Nuggets, back home it was the friday night diner for Lanxade)

One day we brought them some KFC...

They smell it... look at it... and Douin (the japenese one) did the litter burial gesture to try to cover it. not a bite, not a chew... booth of them... I think we were lucky the didn't vomit on the carpet...

you and your pussies...

[Coligny]

you and your pussies...

Not much else to talk too during the day...

When I reach the point of taking them outside in an old shopping cart full of junk you'll have the right to put me a bullet in zee head...

(if you feed my cats afterward)

[matsuki]

[IparryU]

[matsuki]

fuck natto... you nasty smelly man...

Same philosophy as I have with whores, I'll gladly take yours

[Russell]

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