Sushi Singularity Stateside

[GomiGirl]

That is alarming....

[Coligny]

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/maggot-found-in-sushi-at-highpoint-20131128-2ydwd.html

Three bites into a sushi roll she had just bought and her stomach lurched to her throat.

Chloe McSaveney, 22, was staring at two halves of a maggot crawling across the crispy chicken filling, centimetres from her lips.

Wait, If the maggot was wiggling. The meat was raw ?
Who eats raw chicken ? Aside from some countryside cats who never tried McNuggets ?

Hope I just misunderstand the recipe... or something...

[Russell]

There are no pics!

And

The presence of a maggot is unlikely to cause physical harm.

And

We are trying to be the leaders of the industry but unfortunately this was an isolated incident

In other words, they are disappointed that only one single live maggot was found in the Sushi roll?

Anyway, how should maggot be classified: fish or meat?!?

[Coligny]

Fish have meat ? No ?

Iz portreins anyway...

[Taro Toporific]

Meanwhile in Japan...the Cold Dead Fish T-shirt

Via Rakuten
ankoROCK's Super big, sushi pattern, T-shirt
This flashy big T-shirt has a unique sushi pattern...short sleeved, food rock fashion, Hara accommodation system fashion personality clothing brand...

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[Coligny]

Or more likely 1950 novelty kitchen curtains...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Who eats raw chicken ?

New to Japan?

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[wagyl]

Who eats raw chicken ?

New to Japan?

While the photographed offerings are tempting I don't think you find them in Maribyrnong. My guess is that the live maggot resulted from bad handling practices not storing raw and cooked meat separately. After all, if it was raw, I would not be happy for it to be sold as a "crispy chicken roll."

[Coligny]

Who eats raw chicken ?

New to Japan?

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I don't go out much, outside of parks and hardware stores...

[kurogane]

Epic Meal Time

I can't wait till misuse of the word "epic" becomes passe.

That will be toats epic, dude.................

Coligny,
You are not alone, my friend. I thought that Raw Chicken was one of those Gaijin Grapevine urban myths, a sort of gustatory Snuffaluppagus, for my first 8 years in Japan. I just laugh when a Julie suggests it, but if it's work, some serious footwork is required.

So, to allow me to emphasise: Who The Fuck eats Raw Chicken!!????????????

Canadian Sushi has completely inured me to any charm it might ever have had. It is the blandest, most insipid New Food in the last 20 years. Yam rolls???? Really? Could I have a carrot roll with that please.....is that included in the $4.95 for 64 piece special?

[Samurai_Jerk]

So, to allow me to emphasise: Who The Fuck eats Raw Chicken!!????????????

Tori-sashi is getting harder and harder to find in Japan these days but han-nama like the first two pictures is still pretty common.

[kurogane]

Whenever I feel myself getting too romantic about The Japanese, I remember that they have eating habits many pigs would blush at.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Whenever I feel myself getting too romantic about The Japanese, I remember that they have eating habits many pigs would blush at.

I see your taste in food is as pedestrian as your taste in beer.

[kurogane]

Thank you, kind sir. I like to think I am nothing if not utterly pedestrian. I took another Why are You Drinking Budweiser!!??? grilling last night. And I answered: "because I like it, and it doesn't make me fart like a horse". And it's not for a lack of trying new stuff, it's because I don't like much of it, and don't see the point of variety for variety's sake. It is mostly just a new opiate of the masses, after all. It's all very Zen, man.....

OTOH, the grilled green beans finger food we had was quite pleasant.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I took another Why are You Drinking Budweiser!!??? grilling last night.

I'm not a Budweiser fan but not because it's Budweiser. My cheap shit beer of choice is Coors Light. And though I do sometimes enjoy a good microbrew, an ice cold light pissy lager is still the best thing to drink in the summer on the beach or at a BBQ. Besides, I don't want a beer where the taste of hops overwhelms the taste of the sauce on my baby back ribs.

[matsuki]

I took another Why are You Drinking Budweiser!!??? grilling last night.

I'm not a Budweiser fan but not because it's Budweiser. My cheap shit beer of choice is Coors Light. And though I do sometimes enjoy a good microbrew, an ice cold light pissy lager is still the best thing to drink in the summer on the beach or at a BBQ. Besides, I don't want a beer where the taste of hops overwhelms the taste of the sauce on my baby back ribs.

I don't like either of those but if it's all that's being offered, I'd rather deal with it and drink it than be THAT GUY "Nah, I'm good" or a beer snob about it.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Apparently jellyfish maki are all the rage in Japan.

Japan is a diverse land of culinary pleasures, but lately it seems all America cares about are the raw and slurpy parts.

Sushi and ramen aren't the sole culinary delights from the Land of the Rising Sun. So to spotlight some of the culture's lesser-known delicacies, we asked Japanese chefs to offer some recommendations. Here are nine under-the-radar Japanese eats to help break up the spicy tuna and tonkotsu monotony.

[...]

Jellyfish maki
"Jellyfish maki is an extremely popular staple in Japan that's easy to find -- and has been since the jellyfish invasion. Despite its widespread popularity in Japan, jellyfish is not something that we often see, eat, hear of, or really know anything about here in America. It has a nice, clean flavor that works well on hand-rolled maki sushi without rice." - Chris Clime, executive chef, PassionFish (Reston, VA)

[wagyl]

News to me! And tell me more about this jellyfish temaki without rice

[Samurai_Jerk]

Ramen Sushi

[Samurai_Jerk]

How Americans Changed The Way Japanese People Ate Sushi

Now, it wasn't Americans eating sushi that had an impact on sushi-making during the occupation; it was rather how the Americans oversaw food rationing. Many sushi shops had been forced to close during the war due to rice-rationing, and even after the war, shops were not able to obtain enough rice to reopen. In The Sushi Experience, chef and Japanese culinary expert Hiroko Shimbo credits Kataro Kurata, who was a chef at the restaurant Sushi-ei in Tokyo's Ginza district, with appealing to the staffers at the American forces' general headquarters, impressing upon them the importance of sushi to Japanese culture. Eventually, the shops were allowed to be opened, but under one condition: that the shops use the rice brought to them by customers. If someone wanted sushi, they would have to bring their own rice rations to the shop, where a chef would use that rice to make sushi for the customer.

This "consignment" process came with some very rigid strictures: one cup of rice was to make ten pieces of sushi, seven nigiri and three piece of thin roll. After it proved a success in Tokyo, Corson says, the same system was implemented in other parts of the country, with the same requirements: that a certain amount of rice produces certain amounts of specific sushi types. These regions had their own types of sushi, and while these regional varieties of sushi have by no means died out, Tokyo-style nigiri became Japan's predominant form of sushi.

Shimbo points to one other side effect of this rice rationing program: nigiri shrank in size. Before one cup of rice was expected to make ten pieces of sushi, a single piece of nigiri was three times larger in prewar Japan.

[Samurai_Jerk]

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[matsuki]

Jalapeno and wafflecone...I'd expect it on a pizza here but not in kaigai "sushi"

[dimwit]

Hey, who says a cone has to be sweet? I think it could be alot more edible than most of the Kyushu cuisine Ive been force fed in the past

[Samurai_Jerk]

Jalapeno and wafflecone...I'd expect it on a pizza here but not in kaigai "sushi"

I'd expect that kind of shit on a "pizza" in California but at least you didn't unleash the pizza horror on us that Canada did.

Hey, who says a cone has to be sweet? I think it could be alot more edible than most of the Kyushu cuisine Ive been force fed in the past

Sweet or not:

I tend to get the fuck out of Japan for my vacations so I don't get away from the Tokyo area too often. I have a buddy in Tokyo who likes to go to a lot of inaka places on the weekends though and goes to Kyushu a couple of times a year. He says he's always hoping to find some delicious local cuisine in these small towns and villages he visits but that with a few rare exceptions the food outside the big cities sucks serious ass.

[matsuki]

Jalapeno and wafflecone...I'd expect it on a pizza here but not in kaigai "sushi"

I'd expect that kind of shit on a "pizza" in California but at least you didn't unleash the pizza horror on us that Canada did.

Duuuuuuude!

"Hawaiian" pizza is fucking awesome!

[Samurai_Jerk]

Jalapeno and wafflecone...I'd expect it on a pizza here but not in kaigai "sushi"

I'd expect that kind of shit on a "pizza" in California but at least you didn't unleash the pizza horror on us that Canada did.

Duuuuuuude!

"Hawaiian" pizza is fucking awesome!

You can go fuck yourself.

[kurogane]

Duuuuuuude! "Hawaiian" pizza is fucking awesome!

Toats Timbits, buddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The secret is to slice the pineapple very thinly so you don't end up with roasted fruit chunks. And BTW, it's not Canadian Bacon if it's a Canadian invention. And traditionally it is, even though it's not fucking called that anyways. Ham is too watery.

As for the Great Tourist Holy Grail of Local Cuisine...............rubes and suckers all, almost anywhere and everywhere. It is a great marketing scams. Hasn't Russell pined quite articulately about shiite Italian and Greek food while on holiday there? No matter where you go, it doesn't matter. There are exceptions, of course, and the strength of the confirmation bias and self-aggrandising delusions of provincial cosmopolitan rubes will prevent the skirt being lifted and exposing that rancid taint, but no, it does not reliably exist anywhere in Tourist Town and never shall, and certainly not in the Land of Fuck You, Pay Me Hospitality, aka Motenashi Land.

Though I betcha there are some quiet surprises to be had in any smaller resort/tourist destination, especially if they have highly organised hot water immersion facilities and are being populated by ex-Burma Road drop out backpacker types. Parts of Izu are said to be enjoying quite a little quiet gourmet riot, and certainly parts of 99 kuri in Chiba. Shirakawa-go also has a couple of very sooahve little neo-traditional almost bistro style Local Cusine places. But you still just get served Iguana or whatever that little bony river fish is. But those who actually do want to find and joyfully partake in said object of worship miss the point for most dupes: it's the lure of the chimera that keeps them running on that wheel.

[Samurai_Jerk]

As for the Great Tourist Holy Grail of Local Cuisine...............rubes and suckers all, almost anywhere and everywhere. Hasn't Russell pined quite articulately about shiite Italian and Greek food while on holiday there? No matter where you go, it doesn't matter. There are exceptions, of course, and the strength of the confirmation bias and self-aggrandising delusions of provincial cosmopolitan rubes will prevent the skirt being lifted and exposing that rancid taint, but no, it does not reliably exist anywhere in Tourist Town and never shall, and certainly not in the Land of Fuck You, Pay Me Hospitality, aka Motenashi Land.

Though I betcha there are some quiet surprises to be had in any smaller resort/tourist destination, especially if they have highly organised hot water immersion facilities and are being populated by ex-Burma Road drop out backpacker types. Parts of Izu are said to be enjoying quite a little quiet gourmet riot, and certainly parts of 99 kuri in Chiba. Shirakawa-go also has a couple of very sooahve little neo-traditional almost bistro style Local Cusine places. But you still just get served Iguana or whatever that little bony river fish is. But those who actually do want to find and joyfully partake in said object of worship miss the point for most dupes: it's the lure of the chimera that keeps them turning that wheel.

Woah. I have a feeling that's more than just Budweiser talking.

[Mike Oxlong]

As for the Great Tourist Holy Grail of Local Cuisine...............rubes and suckers all, almost anywhere and everywhere. Hasn't Russell pined quite articulately about shiite Italian and Greek food while on holiday there? No matter where you go, it doesn't matter. There are exceptions, of course, and the strength of the confirmation bias and self-aggrandising delusions of provincial cosmopolitan rubes will prevent the skirt being lifted and exposing that rancid taint, but no, it does not reliably exist anywhere in Tourist Town and never shall, and certainly not in the Land of Fuck You, Pay Me Hospitality, aka Motenashi Land.

Though I betcha there are some quiet surprises to be had in any smaller resort/tourist destination, especially if they have highly organised hot water immersion facilities and are being populated by ex-Burma Road drop out backpacker types. Parts of Izu are said to be enjoying quite a little quiet gourmet riot, and certainly parts of 99 kuri in Chiba. Shirakawa-go also has a couple of very sooahve little neo-traditional almost bistro style Local Cusine places. But you still just get served Iguana or whatever that little bony river fish is. But those who actually do want to find and joyfully partake in said object of worship miss the point for most dupes: it's the lure of the chimera that keeps them turning that wheel.

Woah. I have a feeling that's more than just Budweiser talking.

B-sters.

[kurogane]

Nah, just boredom and occupational hangover (the Tourism thing).