Spermoff: Do you like Sushi?

[mobb_deep 921]

Curious how many of you like/dislike sushi.

 

If you like, what's your favorite sashimi or sushi?

 

If you don't, why not?

 

If you eat rolls, your opinion doesn't count.

 

[IGotWorms 4,063]

Fock yeah I like sushi. Not so much the rolls though -- either sashimi or nigiri. Anything fresh is in my book.

[rholio 340]

Not an expert on it, but always hit the sushi when I'm at the Asian Buffet. Love some, like more, hate a few.

[patweisers44 873]

I voted "Fock No!"

[Sho Nuff 720]

Hell yes.

Ill go for a roll to "beef" up the meal if I am just eating sushi. Something with yellow tail, usually none of the "spicy" variety as its either covered in crappy mayo stuff, or they mix in the worst parts of the leftover fish into a concoction to spice it up.

 

As for nigiri...Red Snapper is always good. Toro, when people have it which has always been pretty rare to find around here.

[BiPolarBear 497]

Love it. I used to go to Gen Kai in Dana Point. We would wait for the master chef. We would sit down and order saki and he would start making stuff. We would not order anything. At a normal sushi bar, I usually order sashimi.

[posty 2,849]

Never tried it and I don't think I ever will... Just doesn't look appetizing to me...

[IGotWorms 4,063]

Never tried it and I don't think I ever will... Just doesn't look appetizing to me...

[BunnysBastatrds 2,709]

 

 

2:00 mark

[DankNuggs 305]

good stuff... I like most of it... Place near me makes spicy tuna maki with crunchy tempura flakes in it which is really good... Sashimi is good too, tuna or salmon are best, but i'll eat pretty much any of it

[5-Points 3,838]

Yeah I'll eat pretty much anything but eel. Not a fan of the eel.

 

Didn't used to like it at all. My first date with my wife, she took me to sushi. I wouldn't touch the stuff, sat there drinking saki bombs while she ate. Then she took me to a steak house.

[jerryskids 7,195]

Love it; probably my favorite cuisine. Usually combine sashimi with a few rolls. For sashimi, I like hamachi (yellowtail) the best of the "standard" offerings. My wife isn't as big a fan of yellowtail, so it works well if we share a sashimi plate (she prefers other stuff).

 

My local place sometimes has a seared toro salmon sashimi which is outstanding. I'll occasionally get an order of toro (tuna) sushi, but it is kinda pricy.

[montana 89]

Negative.

Texture issues.

[Mungwater 601]

Sushi is OK, but I love California rolls, I always get those, my pallet is still very Midwestern when it comes to food

[Frozenbeernuts 2,427]

I like both sushi and the rolls. I don't get the dislike for the rolls. There are so many complimentary flavors that enhance the fish inside. I usually like the way eel is prepared.

 

There is a place by me that is $22 all you can eat sushi. It is good stuff too. I am not sure how they stay in business with those prices.

[IGotWorms 4,063]

I like both sushi and the rolls. I don't get the dislike for the rolls. There are so many complimentary flavors that enhance the fish inside. I usually like the way eel is prepared.

I don't mean to sound like a snob here, but truth is if it's truly fresh, high quality fish then you shouldn't want the flavors covered up by anything. To me eating most rolls is like dipping a filet mignon in mayonnaise.

[mobb_deep 921]

I'm also a big fan of Yellow Tail. Bonito is awesome, when I can find it.

 

I usually get the omakase, so I can sample lots of different things.

 

Not a big fan of eel or octopus.

[BiPolarBear 497]

I love yellowtail too. The yellowtail sashimi that is white with the brown streak in it is aqua-culture yellowtail from Japan. Yellowtail flesh out of the ocean looks more like flounder.

[peenie 2,005]

i love sushi!

i usually just have a standard salmon or tuna roll.

it's offered to us at my job.

for really delicious sushi i go to prime in atlanta.

my favorite is the super crunchee:

Super Crunchee

shrimp tempura, avocado,

mayo, smoked salmon, cucumber and

teriyaki

[The Moz 72]

Only at a good place. I do like it alot though. Love Blue Fin - it's pricey but really good. Red Snapper is good, Wild Salmon. Mackrel is the suck - had that once - never again. I don't get the crazy sh!t like the urchin and stuff but good fish I think is actually better served as sushi than cooked.

[The Moz 72]

 

i love sushi!

i usually just have a standard salmon or tuna roll.

it's offered to us at my job.

for really delicious sushi i go to prime in atlanta.

my favorite is the super crunchee:

Super Crunchee

shrimp tempura, avocado,

mayo, smoked salmon, cucumber and

teriyaki

 

You realize that stuff isn't sushi right?

[patweisers44 873]

I don't eat the shiot, but if I did, I certainly would avoid any All You Can Eat places, much like I would avoid places offering Discount Bungee Jumping, Half-Off Vasectomies, and Student Dentistry.

[Sho Nuff 720]

Only at a good place. I do like it alot though. Love Blue Fin - it's pricey but really good. Red Snapper is good, Wild Salmon. Mackrel is the suck - had that once - never again. I don't get the crazy sh!t like the urchin and stuff but good fish I think is actually better served as sushi than cooked.

 

Agreed on mackerel.

Also...if going for a roll...the ones with the slices of fish over the top is the way to go.

[jerryskids 7,195]

We went to Ra Sushi this weekend -- a chain but a little more upscale (read: expensive) than our usual local place. Everything was really good. A couple of rolls, salmon carpaccio, some steamed clams (remarkably my wife had never had them), and yellowtail nigiri for me.

 

I over ate; thought about posting this in the "2 pounds of pizza" thread.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,709]

We caught some yellow fin tunas in the Gulf a few years back. When we got back to dock, the deck hand cleaned them and we ate raw yellow fin tuna right there on the dock. Best I've ever had.

[The Moz 72]

We caught some yellow fin tunas in the Gulf a few years back. When we got back to dock, the deck hand cleaned them and we ate raw yellow fin tuna right there on the dock. Best I've ever had.

Was it tuna pr were you drunk as usual and went down on the deckhand and found you really liked it?

[Cruzer 1,996]

Fock yeah I like sushi. Not so much the rolls though -- either sashimi or nigiri. Anything fresh is in my book.

Ditto!! Except I do enjoy the Spider roll from time to time.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,709]

Was it tuna pr were you drunk as usual and went down on the deckhand and found you really liked it?

 

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/118873824@N05/13149502613/

 

 

I was drunk in that picture.

[KSB2424 3,174]

If you eat rolls, your opinion doesn't count.

 

 

 

Why?

[The Moz 72]

Sushi is at it's best when it's a slice of raw fish on top of a small packed bed of rice. Sushi in a roll IMO is not real sushi.

 

Also people that go to a sushi house and have Tempura and Cali rolls then go home and say they had Sushi that night are idiots.

[KSB2424 3,174]

I'm confused by some peoples confusion of Sushi.

 

Sushi isn't raw seafood. Something is determined as sushi when it is paired with vinergard rice. Wether that is rolled with the rice or laid on top of the rice or whathaveyou. So raw tuna, rolled in the vinegard rice is Sushi. As is cooked shrimp rolled in the rice. The RICE makes the sushi, not the seafood.

 

Raw fish is called sashimi.

[DankNuggs 305]

I'm confused by some peoples confusion of Sushi.

 

Sushi isn't raw seafood. Something is determined as sushi when it is paired with vinergard rice. Wether that is rolled with the rice or laid on top of the rice or whathaveyou. So raw tuna, rolled in the vinegard rice is Sushi. As is cooked shrimp rolled in the rice. The RICE makes the sushi, not the seafood.

 

Raw fish is called sashimi.

Winner, the wannabe elitists that think maki isn't sushi have been foiled

[DankNuggs 305]

Sushi is at it's best when it's a slice of raw fish on top of a small packed bed of rice. Sushi in a roll IMO is not real sushi.

 

Also people that go to a sushi house and have Tempura and Cali rolls then go home and say they had Sushi that night are idiots.

Sweet potato maki is bomb

[Bier Meister 1,774]

Sushi is at it's best when it's a slice of raw fish on top of a small packed bed of rice. Sushi in a roll IMO is not real sushi.

 

Also people that go to a sushi house and have Tempura and Cali rolls then go home and say they had Sushi that night are idiots.

 

 

from a culinary dictionary....

 

 

 

sushi (soo-shee) - It is a Japanese word, which originally meant "sour" or "vinegary" and later came to mean "pickled fish." Sushi is sometimes called "the Japanese sandwich." Contrary to popular American belief, sushi does not mean "raw fish," but actually means "with rice." Sushi is small cakes (shaped into various bite-size forms) of cold cooked rice (sticky rice), flavored with sweet rice vinegar, and typically garnished with strips of raw or cooked fish, seafood, cooked egg, vegetables, etc. They are then wrapped in seaweed to make a shaped package. It is usually served with a green horseradish (wasabi) and soy sauce. The "proper" way to eat sushi is in a single bite.

History: Japanese sushi has a history and tradition of over a thousand years, beginning as a way of preserving fish. It was not until 1824, when Hanaya Yohel of Japan conceived the idea of sliced, raw seafood at its freshest to be served on small fingers of vinegared rice.

[JT 137]

Sashimi for me. ABsolutely love it. Doctor's cringe at the notion of a guy with a non-functioning immune system eat raw fish, but I'm all about living.

 

Not crazy about the rice in sushi.

 

Do enjoy some rolls, especially those with eel.

[JTB 52]

from a culinary dictionary....

 

 

 

 

History: Japanese sushi has a history and tradition of over a thousand years, beginning as a way of preserving fish. It was not until 1824, when Hanaya Yohel of Japan conceived the idea of sliced, raw seafood at its freshest to be served on small fingers of vinegared rice.

I was wondering why rolls weren't considered sushi by the bored's "fancy pants'". A friend of mine, from Chinatown, NY, calls it sushi and thus I do too.