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2010-09-02 05:49:02 PM
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2010-09-02 05:51:20 PM
6. You're a pretentious douche who thinks eating raw fish actually tastes good.
 
2010-09-02 06:04:00 PM
AdolfOliverPanties: 6. You're a pretentious douche who thinks eating raw fish actually tastes good.

You seem to be expressing unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature, on what you think tastes good.
 
2010-09-02 06:06:10 PM
He may hate us, but I love him. Basically his entire family is made up of sushi chefs and so when he moved to the area he took over a meh sushi bar just down the street from my boyfriend and turned it into one of the best places I've ever eaten. Occasionally he'll do "Chef's dinners" which are these unbelievably good seven course meals with wine and sake pairings.

And yeah, he knows us by sight, knows our names and stuff. We always sit at the bar, because he's usually willing to talk to us about what's going on foodwise. His girlfriend usually works as hostess for the Chef's dinners and is a total sweetheart.

Seriously, I love that place.
 
2010-09-02 06:14:27 PM
impaler: AdolfOliverPanties: 6. You're a pretentious douche who thinks eating raw fish actually tastes good.

You seem to be expressing unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature, on what you think tastes good.


Quite the opposite. I am expressing some of those things on what I think tastes horrible.
 
2010-09-02 06:14:47 PM
Obviously. He doesn't even bother cooking the food he serves you, and doesn't give you proper utensils.
 
2010-09-02 06:15:08 PM
AdolfOliverPanties: 6. You're a pretentious douche who thinks eating raw fish actually tastes good.

7. You want to put mayonnaise on the California Roll.

/and by "you," I mean AdolfOliverPanties, apparently...
 
2010-09-02 06:16:35 PM
AdolfOliverPanties: 6. You're a pretentious douche who thinks eating raw fish actually tastes good.


What I came here to say.


I ate in a nice sushi place out in California a few weeks ago. While good, it still didn't top my favorite places here in Houston...except the wait staff which were all Japanese girls (giggity).

And by favorite places, I'm talking about one of the best places in Houston - right out the North gate of NASA. It's a hole in the wall that no "hip" 20-30 something would be caught dead at.
 
2010-09-02 06:30:14 PM
Great, now I want some sushi.
 
2010-09-02 06:36:59 PM
8. I don't even HAVE a sushi chef. :-/
 
2010-09-02 06:40:38 PM
AdolfOliverPanties: 6. You're a pretentious douche who thinks eating raw fish actually tastes good.

to each his own
 
2010-09-02 06:48:03 PM
Candygram4Mongo: AdolfOliverPanties: 6. You're a pretentious douche who thinks eating raw fish actually tastes good.

7. You want to put mayonnaise on the California Roll.

/and by "you," I mean AdolfOliverPanties, apparently...


Is putting mayonnaise on the California Roll bad?
What if it's included in the wrap?
 
2010-09-02 07:01:12 PM
F*ck, now I'm hungry for salmon nigiri.
 
2010-09-02 07:03:59 PM
Candygram4Mongo: AdolfOliverPanties: 6. You're a pretentious douche who thinks eating raw fish actually tastes good.

7. You want to put mayonnaise on the California Roll.

/and by "you," I mean AdolfOliverPanties, apparently...


I'm from California. That's how we roll.

Sorry.

I've always thought of sushi as more art than food. Had a bad experience the one and only time I tried it. Bit into a flying fish egg and nearly projectile vomited right then and there.
 
2010-09-02 07:54:38 PM
Candygram4Mongo: 7. You want to put mayonnaise on the California Roll anything.

Mayonnaise is vile, and it should be a flogging offense to place it on or near sushi in any form.
 
2010-09-02 08:10:41 PM
AdolfOliverPanties: I've always thought of sushi as more art than food.

Oh, it absolutely can be. But even art can be deeeeeeelicious!
 
2010-09-02 08:37:57 PM
....fark I want maki now. I don't care what type. Just. WAAAAAAAAANT.


*Cries*
 
2010-09-02 08:53:05 PM
4) You actually prefer frozen fish.
Around here, a lot of people use frozen tuna. Toward the wintertime, we use a rich-colored tuna with a nice oil content. As a duty as a sushi chef, you're supposed to give the finest cuts to your customer. But then people are so used to the frozen sushi, they think it's bad, return it, and it goes to waste.


Some people just need serious beatings. Rich, oily tuna? WANT!

/hmmm... maybe I'll go for sushi for dinner tonight
 
2010-09-02 09:36:08 PM
People come in and order in Japanese and get it wrong. They'll try to say [the Japanese word for rolled sushi] nigiri.

Nigiri isn't "rolled sushi". It's fish with rice, essentially anything that's not sashimi. Maki is rolled sushi.

/ Am I wrong?
 
2010-09-02 09:37:54 PM
mamoru: 4) You actually prefer frozen fish.
Around here, a lot of people use frozen tuna. Toward the wintertime, we use a rich-colored tuna with a nice oil content. As a duty as a sushi chef, you're supposed to give the finest cuts to your customer. But then people are so used to the frozen sushi, they think it's bad, return it, and it goes to waste.

Some people just need serious beatings. Rich, oily tuna? WANT!

/hmmm... maybe I'll go for sushi for dinner tonight


Can't really blame them. It's like only eating Hydrox your whole life. When you finally get the real stuff (Oreos), you think they taste bad simply because you don't realize perfection when it's in your mouth
 
2010-09-02 09:38:57 PM
Pfft, none of these apply, except for eating wasabi for the lulz. But that was from a take-out order.
And New York? California? The good shiat's in Vancouver.
 
2010-09-02 09:40:12 PM
AdolfOliverPanties: 6. You're a pretentious douche who thinks eating raw fish actually tastes good.

Sushi≠Raw Fish
 
2010-09-02 09:40:50 PM
I'm old and increasingly set in my ways, etc. That said, I've never eaten sushi and admit the concept of eating raw fish is not appealing, I also hear that 'sushi' doesn't necessarily mean 'uncooked'... but I'd be up for trying some if they had some type of inexpensive sampler platter - I don't want to waste food if I'm not going to like it/eat it.

I'd welcome a chance to go try some with someone that knows about it all... I'm painfully "meat n taters" guy so if there's soy, ginger or any type of hot sauce, I'm okay - but too much rabbit food & all that ... well that'll not sweetening the deal...

/not trying to be difficult
 
2010-09-02 09:42:09 PM
So the sushi chef will hate you if you act like a pretentious twatwaffle? Color me shocked.
 
2010-09-02 09:43:34 PM
jingks: People come in and order in Japanese and get it wrong. They'll try to say [the Japanese word for rolled sushi] nigiri.

Nigiri isn't "rolled sushi". It's fish with rice, essentially anything that's not sashimi. Maki is rolled sushi.

/ Am I wrong?


Not sure if you're wrong. Frankly, I'm just amazed that "Nigiri" doesn't set off the FARK Filter...

/Nigiri, please...
 
2010-09-02 09:44:08 PM
Sushi chefs have pretentious moron customers? No way!
 
2010-09-02 09:44:21 PM
I could so go for some good unagi right now...

omnomnomeel
 
2010-09-02 09:44:39 PM
AdolfOliverPanties: Bit into a flying fish egg and nearly projectile vomited right then and there.

Maybe you should've waited 'til the chef finished putting your fish egg on your plate.

/choking hazard?
 
2010-09-02 09:45:12 PM
El_Maestro: Pfft, none of these apply, except for eating wasabi for the lulz. But that was from a take-out order.
And New York? California? The good shiat's in Vancouver.
Tokyo, seriously it's worth the trip
 
2010-09-02 09:45:20 PM
The only reason a sushi chef would hate me:

I mix the wasabi into my soy sauce, which is considered improper.

/I just like it that way.
//Old habits die hard.
 
2010-09-02 09:46:48 PM
Nigiri please.
 
2010-09-02 09:47:21 PM
The_Sponge: The only reason a sushi chef would hate me:

I mix the wasabi into my soy sauce, which is considered improper.

/I just like it that way.
//Old habits die hard.


i know a lot of people that do that.

Ravijn: Nigiri please.

HAHA
 
2010-09-02 09:47:54 PM
madmonkey: I could so go for some good unagi right now...

omnomnomeel


Could and did.

The local Asian grocery sells Unagi Kayabaki, an entire charcoal grilled seasoned eel, in the frozen food section. It's about the price of a McDonalds extra value meal. You don't even have to cook it. Just thaw it out, slice it up, and serve with rice. It even makes microwaved rice taste better...
 
2010-09-02 09:48:39 PM
bump: I'd welcome a chance to go try some with someone that knows about it all... I'm painfully "meat n taters" guy so if there's soy, ginger or any type of hot sauce, I'm okay - but too much rabbit food & all that ... well that'll not sweetening the deal...

Depending on where you live, you can hit an "all you can eat" sushi restaurant for lunch. Not the best quality, but cheap and good for a first try. In Vancouver these places always offer much more than just sushi. Tempura, teriyaki chicken or beef, gyoza (pork dumplings), etc. I have a friend that goes all the time and never eats anything raw.
 
2010-09-02 09:49:28 PM
Kanemano: El_Maestro: Pfft, none of these apply, except for eating wasabi for the lulz. But that was from a take-out order.
And New York? California? The good shiat's in Vancouver. Tokyo, seriously it's worth the trip


shinkansen+beer+sake=vomitus
 
2010-09-02 09:51:44 PM
Meh. Whale sashimi is actually pretty boring. It's pretty awesome as yamato-ni (boiled with sugar, soy sauce and ginger). A flavour I can't liken to anything else.
 
2010-09-02 09:52:00 PM
The_Sponge: I mix the wasabi into my soy sauce, which is considered improper.

I know a couple 70 year old Japanese men that do that. I don't know how improper it is. At the (very few) higher end sushi places I've been to they never give you wasabi, the "correct" amount is already on the sushi, so it wouldn't even be an option. Again, all anecdotal.
 
2010-09-02 09:54:17 PM
Candygram4Mongo: madmonkey: I could so go for some good unagi right now...

omnomnomeel

Could and did.

The local Asian grocery sells Unagi Kayabaki, an entire charcoal grilled seasoned eel, in the frozen food section. It's about the price of a McDonalds extra value meal. You don't even have to cook it. Just thaw it out, slice it up, and serve with rice. It even makes microwaved rice taste better...


That's my favourite food in the whole world, but I only eat it here in Japan. The one time I tried it from a Chinese grocery back in Canada... I had to throw it away; some of which I'd already eaten.

This goes triple for uni.
 
2010-09-02 09:55:29 PM
jingks: Nigiri isn't "rolled sushi". It's fish with rice, essentially anything that's not sashimi. Maki is rolled sushi.

/ Am I wrong?


A little bit. Nigiri basically means "rice ball", and nigiri-sushi is the ball of sushi rice with something, usually raw fish, on top of it. Where you are wrong is that there are a lot of other things involving raw fish that are not sashimi, including maki-sushi (rolls), and some kinds of donburi (rice-bowls).

"nigiri" is not limited to sushi, though. O-nigiri is a common lunch or snack food, and it is basically a good sized rice-ball (about the size of the palm of your hand), often filled with something, which may or may not be wrapped in nori (seaweed). They are great for packed lunches and stuff. :D
 
2010-09-02 09:55:48 PM
True that, the best sushi I had was in Nagoya In a fish market in Japan. Talk about fresh.

I think people think it's much more exotic than it is, especially the cooked stuff. You have a little bit of white rice, a piece of vegatable (sea weed or lettuce) to keep it together, then a piece of meet and maybe a sauce.

Also having been to japan now, the country is absolutely health crazed, so I never felt like I was eating something sick or gross. I happen to love the flavor of raw tuna and salmon.

p.s: The author sounded like a douche bag who felt us American's should be privileged for eating in his restaurant
 
2010-09-02 09:56:03 PM
When I was in high school I dated a sushi chef. He was the only asian guy I ever dated, but I really thought he was cute. He called me his "gyochan". It means "cutie pie" in japanese. :-p
 
2010-09-02 09:56:07 PM
AdolfOliverPanties: 6. You're a pretentious douche who thinks eating raw fish actually tastes good.

8/10

Nicely succinct. A perfect balance of insult and ignorance. Resulted in many bites.
 
2010-09-02 09:56:18 PM
bump: I also hear that 'sushi' doesn't necessarily mean 'uncooked'... but I'd be up for trying some if they had some type of inexpensive sampler platter -

Correct you are. Sushi is actually the art of preparing the rice. Sashimi is the raw fish. Sushi can be cooked.
 
2010-09-02 09:56:37 PM
So let's sum up this article:

1)Don't act like a douche.

2)Don't act like a drunk frat-boy douche.

3)Don't act like a smug, superior, Japanophile douche.

4)Hmm. This is less douchey than inexperienced. And possibly a matter of taste. (Or lack thereof)

5)Don't act like a tourist douche.

So the implication that these are reasons that my sushi chef hates me is that I am the one acting like a douche. And I resent that. In the words of John Edwards, "I'm not a douche!"
 
2010-09-02 09:56:44 PM
jingks: In Vancouver these places always offer much more than just sushi.

Where I work sushi is never more than a dozen storefronts away. Had sashimi for lunch..getting kick....
 
2010-09-02 09:57:19 PM
jingks: The_Sponge: I mix the wasabi into my soy sauce, which is considered improper.

I know a couple 70 year old Japanese men that do that. I don't know how improper it is. At the (very few) higher end sushi places I've been to they never give you wasabi, the "correct" amount is already on the sushi, so it wouldn't even be an option. Again, all anecdotal.


The rule is pretty simple: mix wasabi into your soy sauce when eating sashimi only.

Of course, you can put ketchup on your steak if you like, but people will look at you funny.
 
2010-09-02 09:57:38 PM
jingks: The_Sponge: I mix the wasabi into my soy sauce, which is considered improper.

I know a couple 70 year old Japanese men that do that.


Plenty of Japanese people in Japan do this. If it's improper, it's probably due to outdated etiquette along the lines of not transferring your fork back to your right hand after using a knife to cut your steak. People might get uppity about it, but they are snobs anyway. ;)
 
2010-09-02 09:58:45 PM
What a sushi chef who flunked out might look like.

farm5.static.flickr.com
 
2010-09-02 09:59:16 PM
Candygram4Mongo: Not sure if you're wrong. Frankly, I'm just amazed that "Nigiri" doesn't set off the FARK Filter...

/Nigiri, please...


Darned, that was funny!

Loves me some raw fish, wasabi, rice and soy.
 
2010-09-02 09:59:48 PM
I've eaten on one Sushi restaurant (in a strip mall no less in Dallas, TX) that had actual Japanese people preparing stuff behind the counter. Most are from Taiwan or south of there.

Maybe I just don't know where to go.
 
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