How to Make Sushi [Dave Barry]

Maimi Herald ^ | Nov. 29, 1998 | DAVE BARRY

[brivette]

Great article!

[Chode]

uuuhhh... i thought sushi was rice rolls and that sushimi was raw fish???

[G.Mason]

I never understood why someone would take good bait and eat it raw, when all they would have to do is put some on a hook and catch a perfectly good food fish, broil it, bake it, or fry it and have a feast. ;)

[fight_truth_decay]

I am not a sushi fan, as I dislike all the rice,seaweed etc wraps with it; but am a big sashimi fan with wasabi and soy sauce mixed.. Fresh Water Eel (Unagi) and tuna are my favorites! Wasabi peanuts (Trader Joes) wasabi are great as well. I prefer those over the Wasabi peas.

[Maceman]

I happen to be an expert on this topic because I recently put in a stint as a chef at an actual sushi restaurant.

I never out in a stint as a sushi chef, but I did get into a friendly sword fight with a sushi chef in the parking lot behind the restaurant one night in 1990 -- back when I was studying the Korean zen sword art of Shim Gum Do.

I was a regular customer at the Sho Gun restaurant back then, and got friendly with the chef. It turned out that he had been a student of Kendo (Japanese Sword), and one night we decided to go at it with a pair of wooden swords during his break to compare styles.

I don't know if it's fair to say that I won the encounter, but he quit before I did.

[fight_truth_decay]

Yes you are right..sushimi is raw and sushi is usually wrapped in "rice or vegetation" of some kind.

[cripplecreek]

I'm afaid I live in a remote wilderness region where the fish is only sushi until it is cooked.

[Gabz]

You sound like my husband..............

[MotleyGirl70]

But the trick is that it's served with a green condiment called ''wasabi,'' which is the Japanese word for ''nuclear horseradish.''

LOL!

I eat sushi a few times a year, but I only get the California rolls to be safe. There's something about eating raw fish that grosses me out. It's the texture of it when it's raw.

You know you put too much wasabi on your sushi when your eyes start to water and your nose starts to burn.

[lawgirl]

Dave Barry is 58? wow I thought he was like 45 or something. On a sidenote not related to his age, he is so funny!

[cripplecreek]

I like that fact that he doesn't talk down to his readers. Even those of us in remote wilderness regions. LOL

[lawgirl]

LOL yeah- I grew up in Iowa and now live in wisconsin. I resemble that remark! lol

[Always Right]

uuuhhh... i thought sushi was rice rolls and that sushimi was raw fish???

True, except that most sushi does include raw fish.

[martin_fierro]

Sushi is OK in my book, but no fugu for me.

[RightWingAtheist]

I LOOOOOOVE sushi, and have it at least once a week. Spider rolls (soft shell crab with sprouts, lettuce and wasabi mayo) and any thing with salmon are my faves. There are several good sushi places here in Minneapolis, and when I returned home to Canada this Christmas, my dad asked me if I was eating more oriental food. I said yes, and asked how he knew, and he said that my weight gain was consistent with a rice-based diet. For the record, my dad is an endrocrinologist, so he gets paid to notice these things.

[No.6]

Sushi can be 'nigiri-sushi' (made-in-the-hand sushi) which is basically the fish pressed on top of the rice; sometimes bound together by a little strip of nori.

There's also maki-sushi, which is the typical rolled type.

In this picture, the stuff on the left is maki-sushi and the stuff on the right is nigiri-sushi.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

o'er the clam parts we watched.

That is too funny!!!

Wasabi is nothing more than horseradish dyed green and a zillion dollars less. Yes, it is tasty, like horseradish dyed green.

[Ditter]

If one more person tells me that "it tastes so good" I am going to scream. Maybe it is because I come from the land of brown muddy (and polluted) water, but fish needs to be cooked.