Quick wasabi story: A couple of years ago I had dinner at a Japanese place with a friend of mine who had never eaten sushi before. The order arrives and he is watching me dip the roll in soy sauce and then smear some wasabi on it. He follows suit, except he puts half the wasabi pile on his first bite. A couple of seconds later he is slapping the table, knocking off the silverware and had eyes wider than Betty Davis.
After he regained his speech he said he could smell the colors in the room.
I'd like to know how they make horseradish into powder. I tried drying some and grinding it, bit it lost all it's flavor. It just tasted like a weed or something!
Too funny! A little wasabi goes a LONG way.