Comment preview: > If someone from Japan says maki isn't sushi, then it's probably because where he/she is from they don't call it sushi, even if that's not correct by the wikipedia/dictionary/whatever definition. If somebody from Japan says that maki isn't sushi, then ....

Comment preview: During the movie, I was very proud that my craft was being showcased by a superior chef. Reflecting on the movie, I felt very sad. The man spends spends his entire life trying to attain perfection, but perfection is not static. But it can't be done. Sec ....

Comment preview: To be fair, California Rolls are delicious AND are a great way to introduce people to sushi. I hated sushi until I started eating California rolls and Philadelphia (?) rolls (the ones with cream cheese, mm). But those rolls introduced me to the basic flavo ....

Comment preview: Ahh - no, sushi is amazing. Now, there is a huge difference between shitty grocery store sushi and actual good sushi. But, if you're out eating with your friends and they know what they're doing, I trust they're taking you to the right places. But good s ....

Comment preview: I've lived in Japan for years, and your list isn't accurate. >If you are eating at a place that serves a "caterpillar roll" and shit like that, it doesn't matter- that's not even real sushi. Like I said, I'm living in Japan, and I know of three nice pl ....

Comment preview: I have so much inside knowledge about sushi. One of my friends is a sushi chef. I ve been begging him for forever to please teach me the secrets of making sushi. At first I thought he was brushing me off because he was nervous, worried about me becoming a ....

Comment preview: It's great that you now recognize how beautifully simplistic sushi can be after watching Jiro Dreams of Sushi, but that doesn't invalidate all other forms of sushi. That's a standard that is strived for by a very small percentage of chefs, even in Japan. D ....

Comment preview: One of my friends is a sushi chef. I ve been begging him for forever to please teach me the secrets of making sushi. At first I thought he was brushing me off because he was nervous, worried about me becoming a better sushi chef than he is. I told him ther ....

Comment preview: A lot of people tend to think that if a sushi bar is really busy, it's good. That's not always true. For me, if I were to walk into a sushi bar, I would immediately sit at the sushi bar and not a table. I would engage the Itamae. You need to develop a c ....

Comment preview: Hi! It depends on what restaurant you are in. Some can be very authentic, even outside of Japan. But, generally speaking, sushi is raw fish served on su-meshi, a special balance of sticky vinegared rice. There are three kinds - the nigiri, which looks like ....

Comment preview: I've worked in a sushi bar and I've eaten plenty of sushi. If you go grab a roll at the mall and then the week after you go an actual bar and sit down you'll notice the difference exactly. If you only eat sushi a few times a year, even at a sit-down place, ....

Comment preview: Sushi. I don't get it - it barely has any flavor, it's horribly over priced (my opinion I guess) and it doesn't fill you up. Is it just trendy to like sushi? or do people legitimately love it? And yes, I have been to several places considered to be grea ....

Comment preview: Hope these pics are of interest - i know a bunch of /r/sushi people have dined with Masa at 15East.. For those who haven't - Masato Shimizu was the head chef at 15East in NYC - a michelin starred sushi restaurant in Union Square. Widely considered to be th ....

Comment preview: Mind if another sushi chef chimes in? I spent 5 years training and apprenticing. * Perfect sushi rice requires cooking the rice with the proper amount of water and letting it cool correctly. Remember, you're adding more liquid after it's cooked so it wil ....

Comment preview: Wow... I work in hospital IT. Clinical Systems Analyst here. Work mainly with the Pharmacy, but get to deal with the doctors because I also recently started doing CPOE builds. We had the same thing happen in a way. Kind of a different story, but same feels ....

Comment preview: Well, you need to cure it in vinegar/salt as well, that firms it up so it resembles what you normally get from a sushi bar. Think a bit like a herring you roast vs. pickled herring from the julefrokost, pickling firms it up very well. However, mackerel is ....

Comment preview: > A few months ago, Brady watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a documentary about an 85-year-old who loves to cook and wakes up each day trying to improve at doing so. "It smacked me in the face as a reaffirmation," Brady says. "Just be in the moment. What's ....

Comment preview: I didn't understand why sushi is so expensive until I researched recipes to do it myself. I love sushi and couldn't afford it as often as I wanted to, so I figured I could save money if I just made it myself, since I couldn't justify some rice and fish bei ....

Comment preview: Japanese American here, and i would just like to sigh at number 4. I feel like i get this a lot from native japanese people, but seriously: american sushi isn't worse than japanese sushi, it's just not the same as japanese sushi. Japanese American culture ....

Comment preview: Sushi is a whole different beast. Sushi chefs generally look down on hibachi chefs. I think it's a jealousy thing. Hibachi chefs get to have fun and sushi chefs have to be more respectable. Learning sushi was much harder that hibachi. The chef that I ....

Comment preview: I made the mistake of going to a sushi restaurant with friends with kids... ONCE. I will never do it again. I should have known better. I already knew that they let their kids run wild, but they sprung the "oh, and we're bringing the kids" on me at the l ....

Comment preview: I just looked up an article on this subject because I'm in Canada and -70F (-55C) seemed absolutely outrageous to me. The article I found states the following: "Sushi eaters don't typically have to worry because sushi restaurants take certain steps in han ....

Comment preview: Telling this story from my perspective and how i kind of got in with my now father in law at the time. I was a bartender at this sushi restaurant in San Diego and the bar was attached to the sushi bar too. So often times I would exchange drinks with the su ....

Comment preview: The most accurate way to judge a sushi chef's skill is to have him make an omelette (*tomagoyaki*) or an egg hand-formed sushi (*tomago nigiri*.) The process altogether should be a fairly lengthy one, taking no less than eight or nine minutes in my opinio ....

Comment preview: Sushi has a sad tale attached to him. The long and the short of it: * 2 Friends of mine wanted a cat * Everyone reminds them that it's a life-long committment * They get cat anyway from gumtree.com (at least saved from an abusive family) * They leave back ....