Entries tagged with 'sushi'
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Plush sushi pillows are a little pricey—$40 for a California roll and $69 for an edamame body pillow, but after this commercial, you might be brainwashed into one. Or just freaked that four people in all black will chase you across bridges in the snow to Go-go music. The video, after the jump....
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In the past several weeks I've had very bad luck with ordering food for delivery. As a New Yorker, this is particularly distressing, as we tend to order takeout more frequently than we turn on our own stoves. It all started with a grilled chicken salad: I asked for the balsamic vinaigrette on the side, it arrived soused in a dressing so thick it bordered on mayonnaise. I practically had to spoon through it just to find the lettuce. Then, I got a falafel platter with ho-hum hummus instead of the babaganoush I had been craving. Finally—and this was the worst of all—my sashimi entree arrived all by its lonesome, without the miso soup. I have no problem sending...
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It haunts you with its sad, droopy, suffering-rich eyes. Photograph from o-no-co.com The sushi-inspired vinyl toys from O-No Food Company feature two sad tentacled creatures whose limbs have been cut off for your sushi-eating pleasure. They're kind of cute and kind of...really sad. To be more specific, each one contains 176g of sadness, according to their nutritional facts. Designed by artist Andrew Bell, these toys are based off his print "Never Look Back." [via notcot.org] Related: Do Not Eat These Monsters...
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"Sushis Fitting In" by Scott Campbell Illustrator Scott Campbell makes awesome art, including a series of cute anthropomorphized sushi. Look as they make new friends and get impaled by ninja stars! You can buy his art at Gallery Nucleus and Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight. [via Sushi or Death]...
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What would it be like to step into a shrink ray and hop aboard a sushi conveyor belt? Wonder no more. Some crazy cats plunked a video camera down on a kaiten-zushi belt and let it roll.
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Sushi Time is a new iPhone app meant to demystify potentially scary sushi terms. For example, you enter “fugu," swipe the screen, and there's a photo of what resembles yellow-tail, but wait. It's potentially toxic, says the magic phone. Phew, good thing you didn't order that craziness. [via Jamie Forrest] Related How to Use Urbanspoon Feature on iPhones Chocolate-Covered iPhone Singing Human Sushi on Japanese Kid's TV Show...
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Singer/songwriter Cathy Wiegand, also known as Keyboard Kathy, likes sashimi so much that she wrote this song dedicated to the "sushi without the rice." I'm not sure whether her sashimi passion is endearing or discomforting—maybe somewhere in between. Close your eyes and you might think you're listening to a musical about sashimi and Chinese food. Watch the video after the jump....
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While we're all very familiar with the sustainable agriculture and farm-to-table movements, sustainable seafood has gotten lost in the shuffle. With all the sushi Americans consume each year, you'd think there would be more concern for the history of how sashimi gets to your table and what's done to the environment in the process. According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program, "Sustainable seafood is from sources, either fished or farmed, that can maintain or increase production into the long-term without jeopardizing the affected ecosystems." It's easy to go uninformed about your fish if you don't ask questions. Most sushi restaurants don't provide specific origins, and asking a chef can be intimidating but might be the only way...
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Though the musical acts packed their bags and left Chicago last weekend, Lollapalooza is still in the air—in the form of new BYOB sushi restaurants. Rollapalooza just opened in Boystown, further proving that sushi makes for some pretty lame puns. Despite the allusion, the music here isn't so hot according to one Yelper: "Nobody at 10PM on a Friday night wants to hear 'You Light Up My Life' and a Lionel Richie medley."...
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Experience the fast paced world of running a sushi bar by playing Sushi Go Round. Click on ingredients to make specific rolls (doing it incorrectly results in something that looks like a pile of poop), send the sushi out to your customers before they get angry, and buy more ingredients when supplies are running low. It's not realistic at all, but it's a fun way to kill time. [via Metafilter]...
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