mumble mumble...

guess what I'm hungry for now...

thanks a freaking lot.

Forget the sushi, bring on the daifuku

Rodddxl: 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.

Damn dude, for 105? You eating at Giordano's or something?

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FourBlackBars: When did fark become gay? Nearly 50 comments on Japanese culture an no photos of Asian girls looking busty? Lame.



/waits for it...

There's enough sushi on that table to feed a Japanese person for a year.

The proper way to eat sushi:

1. put sushi in mouth
2. chew
3. swallow.
4. repeat as necessary.

My new intern is from Shanghai and absolutely cannot use chopsticks.

It's bizarre to watch.

She also has a fruit phobia so there you have two firsts for me.

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

You say this as if there is something wrong with aerosol cheese.

/thought gravy was a soft drink until I was 12.

Don't put salt on your fries. There may already be salt on it.

When getting a 99 cent cheeseburger from Mc Donald's, don't put ketchup on it. There may already be ketchup inside.

That'll be $150, please.

Knucklepopper: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 don't doubt that Tucson or Mexico City has cheap but good sushi deals. But in the West End of central London, £30~50USD per person is a very reasonable price, in my opinion, to pay for a nice sushi dinner. It's not West Ken or some other ridiculously posh place, but it's an amazing sushi meal that you won't forget.

I'm hoping other Londoners can highlight a few good sushi places that they've stumble upon, though. I'm a poor, unemployed former student at the moment, but I could really go for some unagi and sake right now.

Look dipshiat the only thing that the chefs, waiters, hostess, bartenders and owners really care about is that you pay your bill, tip well, and come again. Eat it with a chopstick, your fingers, a fork, or a spoon they don't care.

I read an article (new window) about this in the LA Times the other day.

So... The penis goes in the vagina? Got it.

I eat sushi with my fingers because I suck at using chopsticks. I do dip both the rice and fish in the soy sauce but not long enough to soak it. I only mix in the wasabi if I am in the mood for wasabi.


Eat sushi however you like it. No need to be a snob about your meal.

Now I want sushi for lunch tomorrow, its only a three block walk from work so I think it will be happening.

I'm reading The Zen of Fish right now so I find this article quite timely.

We can snark all we want, but dude's evidently able to find enough people, in New York City at that, who just crawled out of the 1982 time machine and have $105 to learn how he thinks they're supposed to eat raw fish.

You don't actually have to be right, you just have to find enough people with a little cash who don't know any better.

/5 years, Tokyo & Osaka
//chopsticks, like the locals
///liked the conveyor-belt sushi places, pay by the plate
////hamachi ga dai-tsukii

Utter bullshiat.

Reminded me of this scene from Tampopo though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm_ubnnZusc (new window)

How about enjoy your food and shut the hell up?

I have a friend that eats sushi and sashimi with a knife and fork. I seriously had to keep from laughing the first time I saw him do that.

/Uses chopsticks
//Loves wasabi

Mrs. Chomsky: it truly is Stuff White People Like.

Actually, I think that sushi was developed (and still largely enjoyed) by yellow people.

/though, the white-person version is often significantly different -- highly-elaborate rolls, as opposed to a bit of fish on a slab of rice

vicejay: MMmmmm, sushi..

I have the World Series thread open too, quit confusing me.

Crap. I guess my ignorance of the proper technique is why I can't eat at that sushi place again.

That, or they were offended when I stirred the soy/wasabi mixture with my penis.

mamoru: calm like a bomb: That, or they were offended when I stirred the soy/wasabi mixture with my penis.

Wow. That doesn't sound pleasant for your penis. :-/

Even worse for my wife later that night.

Saki. Hot.

/hot
//saki

Well...I feel educated and spoken down to like nothing else. I could say something about the various sushi joints I frequent, my use of chopsticks, my wasabi-ing of the soy sauce, and other grave mistakes, or I could say that for 20 bucks there's a place in Berkeley, CA where you can get all you can eat (decent quality as well), the chef will come out and mingle with the customers when there's a lull, the waitresses remember you, and are polite, and dollar beers (only Sapporo, but that's okay)

I prefer to mention the nice, all you can eat place.
(it's on Telegraph, accross from one of the many Andronico's...and I think it used to be an IHOP)

/fear my run on sentences!
//FEAR THEM!
/or not

Knucklepopper:

Who the hell eats $50 worth of fish?



Someone who goes to a high end sushi place when they arent very hungry.

I don't care what this douchebag says, I'll eat the way I like it. I use chopsticks, because I don't like using my fingers. The exception to this is inari, which is too big and unwieldy for chopsticks. Wasabi is never added to my sushi... maybe because I never get the kind with fish (vegetarian). I'll put as much wasabi in my soy sauce as I want, because that's how I like it. And I prefer to sit at the table (when I'm at a sushi place that has a bar... the best one in town doesn't) because it's easier to socialize with whoever I'm with.

And, if you've ever had real wasabi, it's not nearly as fiery as the fake stuff most places serve. Someday I would like to get FRESH real wasabi, but in this country, reconstituted is the best most places can do. It's much tastier than the fake stuff, except you get used to using more and then when you go to a cheap place you forget and SET YOUR MOUTH ON FIRE.

Right, so basically to really enjoy sushi you have to mimic, and replicate as perfectly as possible, the way that people in Japan eat it?

/douchewad.
//also, omaha? I didn't think you could get sushi in Nebraska, chef's choice or not...

I've never had sushi. The smell of that seaweed crap makes me gag.

misanthropologist:
//also, omaha? I didn't think you could get sushi in Nebraska, chef's choice or not...

Even if you could, I would avoid it.

I'm with him on the abomination that fake wasabi paste-laden sushi rice, but telling me that I have to stain up my fingers with inari juice at lunch is just silly.

fuzzycuffs: FourBlackBars: When did fark become gay? Nearly 50 comments on Japanese culture an no photos of Asian girls looking busty? Lame.



/waits for it...

Is that a lollipop? Because I want to lick it. And because it looks like a lollipop.

You should eat Sushi as often as she likes it.

Biv: I've never had sushi. The smell of that seaweed crap makes me gag.

Tried sashimi or nigiri? Either no, or very little seaweed there (usually only a tiny strip of it to hold the fish to the rice, if any)

Biv: I've never had sushi. The smell of that seaweed crap makes me gag.

Sushi is Japanese for "vinegar rice".

http://themoreyouknow.jpg/

Knucklepopper: 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.

Tanuki and Hana Tokyo are good in Sierra Vista

\Which is about 70 miles SE of Tucson, if anybody was interested.

NY Times link? Not gonna click it. Sorry, I'm tired of being asked to log in to their crappy site.

/loves me some sushi with wasabi

I want FUGU! (new window)

I've never heard of a poisoned pork chop!

/A little death anxiety is normal.