Alton Brown said the same thing, but I don't care. Chopsticks are fun and wasabi-spiced soy sauce is delicious.

/heads out for Japango Happy hour (srsly)

Hey subby, not everyone subsists on aerosol cheese that their mom brings home from Wal-mart.

Eating sushi with Japanese people is like going to a movie with someone who read the book. But it's only 2 times worse.

Fark? And sushi? It's more likely than you think...

I always ask for a spork

and ketchup

I caught the flu the day after eating sushi. . .very sick.

I've tried it again since then, but almost gagged!!

So that's why all of the people I met in Japan used chopsticks with their sushi, dipped the whole piece in sauce, and mixed wasabi with the sauce? Ok, I guess I'll take this American douche's word over experience in Japan.

"...and do not muddy it with wasabi"

LIES!!!

He's assuming the chef is not Mexican, Chinese, or Korean.

Edsel: Hey subby, not everyone subsists on aerosol cheese that their mom brings home from Wal-mart.

Yeah!

/sometimes Dad picks it up.

Yes, and traditionally, sushi wasn't even served on plates. It was put directly on the bar in front of you. fark all that. I'm adding wasabi to my taste. I'm using chopsticks.

Funny, I'm Italian and I learned to use a spoon to twirl and load my fork with pasta. A good friend of mine (another WOP) learned to do it without.

Perhaps there's more than one way to eat food.

This New York snob can suck my unagi. For $100 I'll find my own sushi place (already got one) and feed the hell out of 4 people.

Money making scheme makes money...

In before the beer snobs

I always get pissed, becuase they never have hush puppies with the fish.

I like to see if I can eat the really big pieces in one bite.

Loves me some sushi

That would explain some of the odd looks I got in Kyoto.

Well, that and the flaming red hair.

I always eat sushi with my fingers because I suck at chopsticks and end up dropping it in the soy sauce or on the table.

Classes, for a minimum of six people, are $105 a person plus drinks.

Screw that. I'll just get a pizza and a pitcher of beer.

Fraggler
Alton Brown said the same thing, but I don't care. Chopsticks are fun and wasabi-spiced soy sauce is delicious.

/heads out for Japango Happy hour (srsly)


Article is behind the reg-wall so I won't read it but based on Fraggler`s comment I have to assume that the over-use/improper use of wasabi was noted. Perhaps there was even a comment on its dubious provenance in NA restaurants. I don`t care. And I`m ordering the sushi pizza. And I`m eating that with the chopsticks too.

Sushi is peasant food. Don't let anybody tell you different.

18DeadMonkeys Radio: I always ask for a spork

My kind of customer.

/you owe me a keyboard

Great, more culinary snobbery. As if having the correct glasses for the right wine to go with your blue napkins used with desert weren't bad enough.

You can use chopsticks, it's fine. No one forces you to use your fingers. And in fact I think it's not that common.

Dipping fish first is right. Also, not everything gets dipped. It may already have flavor.

You're not supposed to use extra wasabi, as there should already be enough in the nigiri. But chefs won't get angry if you do, unless they're snooty as well.

You can roll in and order omakase (chef's choice) at first, that's pretty legit. But afterwards you can order what you feel like. You can ask what is good today (Kyou no osusume wa?), so you get his idea of what's good other than what he made you.

Sushi isn't as snooty as people think it is, even in Japan. But try not to do the following:

-Fill up your dish to the brim with soy sauce. You're not going to drink it, are you?
-Eat only the fish and leave the rice. If you just wanted fish, order sashimi.
-Soak it so the rice is sloppy with soy sauce. Just poor form. All you end up eating is salt.

/Livin' in Tokyo

Chopsticks or fingers, it's all right. I've done both. I've dated Japanese girls (in Japan of all places) that wouldn't use their fingers to eat pizza, let alone sushi. A good sushi chef will put sauce (if required) on the sushi and serve it to you seconds after he made it, but otherwise, do it to taste. Also he can fark off about the wasabi comment because wasabi-joyu is farking awesome.

I really don't need some poncy dickwad telling me how to eat a piece of fish on rice.

Much more useful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAJeUONc3b0

/lazy

I only use chopsticks for sashimi. Sushi is finger food!

I generally put all the wasabi into the soy sauce so that it becomes a paste of fire. The trick to wasabi though is in the physical act of eating it. You can make a little go a long way by where it's placed on the food and how it contacts the inside of your mouth. Sometimes gobs of it do nothing, and sometimes a sliver will make your eyes burn and cause reflexive coughing. It all depends on exactly how you eat it. It's weird that way.

truth be told, I would rather have a huge plate of extremely fresh raw salmon than any kind of sushi. Sure, I like sushi rice and some rolls etc. But for me it all boils down to the salmon. It is a food of divinity, along with prime rib and Thai sticky rice with mango.

Heck, the sushi restaurant where I eat is run by Koreans! They serve kimchi and it's upstairs, through a Korean grocery store that gives no hint of the awesomeness that is upstairs.

For those of you who are lucky enough to live in London, it's just off Tottenham Court Road, across from the Centre Point building. Dip the whole piece, mix in wasabi, do what you want.

£60 will get you and your girl a massive amount of food, plus some sake and a beer. That works out to about 70¢ less than this guy is charging. Totally worth it.

Except there's rules in Japan about using the back of chopsticks to remove sushi from a public platter. WHICH ONE IS RIGHT?!

/Wasabi in the US is probably not Wasabi.
//It's green colored horseradish sauce, grown near St. Louis, MO.

I'm eating sushi right now so I'm getting a kick....

All the Japanese people I see eating with chopsticks must be n00bs - better take advice from the white guy on Asian cuisine.

NobleHam: So that's why all of the people I met in Japan used chopsticks with their sushi, dipped the whole piece in sauce, and mixed wasabi with the sauce? Ok, I guess I'll take this American douche's word over experience in Japan.


Yeah, this.

I offer a class on how to eat at an American fast food restaurant. The price for a full semester is only $50. Learn how to properly squirt a ketchup packet onto a burger wrapper. Master the art of blending ranch with honey mustard. Never be embarrassed at McDonald's again!

feanturi: Edsel: Hey subby, not everyone subsists on aerosol cheese that their mom brings home from Wal-mart.

Yeah!

/sometimes Dad picks it up.

The finest cheese in the world oozes from a can!

In other news, the California Roll was invented in Hokkaido.

BloodyL: £60 will get you and your girl a massive amount of food, plus some sake and a beer. That works out to about 70¢ less than this guy is charging. Totally worth it.

Who the hell eats $50 worth of fish?
Sushi Garden Tucson: all you can sushi $20. Sushi Deli, San Diego: $30 a person (with sake and beer). Harumi, Mexico City, $25 a person.

I know you're supposed to eat it with your fingers but I use chopsticks because I don't want sticky rice all over my fingers. And I put wasabi in the soy sauce.

Yeah, I believe this. I lived for 26 months in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. The equivalent of New York, Chicago, LA and DC and I never saw anyone over the age of 5 or with a blood alcohol level under 0.2 eat sushi with their fingers. Yabanji de aru zo.

In most western dining you should never add ketchup or salt to a prepared meal. You should never request to take any portion of your meal home. You should always sit across from, never beside the person you are dining with. You should never use the same fork for two or more plates. You should never leave the table without first asking to be excused.

Yes, these are formal correct. However, if you try to behave as though these were proper at all times, not just formal occasions, you will come across as rude, and stuffy. The sushi rules listed in the article, I'm guessing, are the same. I know that in most sushi joints in japan it is quite common to see people (especially women) eating sushi with chopsticks, mixing their wasabi to taste and otherwise ignoring these rules.

Although I agree that you should always dip your sushi into the sauce, not pour sauce onto sushi.

/snooty sushi story

There's a fast food sushi place near my office. They just constantly churn out sushi during the lunch rush and you can pick up a plate in a few minutes. If you go after the lunch rush you get a discount. I eat it with my hands and I sometimes get the daily chef special. So I've been doing it right all along you uncultured heathens.

/snooty sushi story.

it truly is Stuff White People Like.

mumble mumble...

guess what I'm hungry for now...

thanks a freaking lot.