What do you think of when you hear "sushi?"
The currently active Talk thread "Sushi - Love it or Hate it?" has me curious:
When someone says "sushi" or you read "sushi," what do you think of? I don't mean do you think "ewww" or "yum" or "expensive" though those are certainly reasonable to think. Rather, I mean, what kind of food, what sorts of ingredients, what kind of experience or tastes or flavors. What is your conception of "sushi?"
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25 Comments:
Sushi means "with rice", so, I think of something "with rice".
izatryt at 5:09PM on 10/16/08
Cold, Japanese, soy sauce, fat sticky globs of rice.
nightowl at 5:20PM on 10/16/08
My first instinct is nori rolls and those ones with raw salmon on little ovals of rice. I also think cold.
embolini9 at 5:25PM on 10/16/08
Ginger and a hearty, nasal-passage-clearing dollop of wasabi.
Chaoss at 6:00PM on 10/16/08
Raw fish rolled up with rice and stuff in a slimy seaweed wrapper.
Cold, raw, wet, stinky appetizer.
*Shudder*
PerkyMac at 6:06PM on 10/16/08
Let's go!
inuyaki at 6:24PM on 10/16/08
Lots of wasabi, avocado rolls, veggie rolls, inari
and... YUM! :)
sweethunibabi at 6:35PM on 10/16/08
I think of the movie "Monsters, Inc." where Sully and Mike are at the sushi restaurant and the little girl escapes.
buffy at 6:39PM on 10/16/08
I think of jewel bright tuna on a little bed of rice. I see a bright piece of fish that i have no idea what it is but know that it will be so fresh it is like butter on the tongue. I see a roll with sticky rice waiting for a wasabi dip. I think of fun times with a good friend and how nice the east coast was.
Homer simpson
love2cook at 7:01PM on 10/16/08
A round roll, usually containing raw tuna and rice, surrounded by nori. Lately I've segued to sashimi because rolls contain too much rice for me.
therealchiffonade at 7:24PM on 10/16/08
I think of tempura batter fried sushi with rice, avocado, unagi kabayaki, and tobiko with kewpie mayo.
If you're going to bastardize sushi as 99% of restaurants do in the US -- from the ingredients used, lack of skill and care, quality of the nori, rice, and ingredients, and the stupid large SIZE -- you might as well go AAAALL the way. :P
Cassaendra at 7:40PM on 10/16/08
i think of my boyfriend who is an addict
hungrygrl7 at 7:40PM on 10/16/08
A ball of seasoned rice topped with a piece of fish, seafood, omelette...
Everything else is some yuppie bullshit.
SqueezeBottle at 9:11PM on 10/16/08
A ball of seasoned rice topped with a piece of fish, seafood, omelette...
Everything else is some yuppie bullshit.
SqueezeBottle at 9:15PM on 10/16/08
I think of been there done that and got over it. Never a wowser for me.
OK some of it was interesting and it was fun while it lasted but my hear belongs to rare meat (red) which someone purposely stopped cooking to my satisfaction. I like everything teppanyaki, tempur and terykai.
JerzeeTomato at 9:27PM on 10/16/08
buttery salmon sashimi or smoked eel atop a bed of rice.
tudogostoso at 10:37PM on 10/16/08
I think of just vinegared rice with some fish on top. That's my first thought anyway, of course any further thinking leads to rolls and such although many rolls are inedible monstrosities, IMO.
fuuchan at 11:05PM on 10/16/08
I think of dipping a California roll into a small bowl of soy sauce mixed with wasabi and and pickled ginger ... mmmm delicious!
poke87 at 11:32PM on 10/16/08
For the record I love sushi:
I think of yuppies either eating alone at the bar or in pairs, dressed in all black, with cell phones glued to their ear, sunglasses plastered onto their faces, eating California rolls and drinking sake.
ag3208 at 11:54PM on 10/16/08
For the record I love sushi:
I think of yuppies either eating alone at the bar or in pairs, dressed in all black, with cell phones glued to their ear, sunglasses plastered onto their faces, eating California rolls and drinking sake.
ag3208 at 11:59PM on 10/16/08
Sex.
Raw, sensual, decadent.
Kerosena at 10:35AM on 10/17/08
I think of vinegared rice with toppings. Subsequent thoughts include "do I want some for dinner?" followed by "Do I make it myself or eat out?"
Amandarama at 11:38AM on 10/17/08
I think of so many things, but mainly I think of perfectly vinegared rice (zushi) topped with ultra fresh sashimi, either nigiri or chirashi style, especially beautiful ruby red tuna, succulent wild salmon, spanish mackerel, eel... maybe a salmon skin handroll, just because I love the crunchy-chewy texture of the nori... and possibly tuna maki (again, for the nori).
And addictive pickled ginger and wasabi... edamame and miso while we're waiting...
MMMmmmm...
BTW. Sushi never brings to mind the word "cold" -- the rice is cool, but never, ever cold. The fish is certainly kept chilled, but if the chef is doing things properly, the handling during prep is supposed to bring it closer to room temperature (otherwise you can't taste it). Proper sushi temps are a lot like proper wine temps!
LoCo at 2:12PM on 10/17/08
When I hear sushi I think of maki rolls (seaweed outside, rice inside with fish center) and nigiri (piece of fish atop a rice ball). I typically eat salmon and tuna sushi so that's what I picture but my conception of sushi definitely includes other fish like eel, white tuna, kona kampachi, etc.
Hillary
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Chew on That at 2:36PM on 10/17/08
Heh, the dude who said "Let's go!" posted as 'inuyaki', or 'barbequed dog'.
Sweet.
simplysoup at 5:17AM on 10/21/08