Saturday, May 24, 2008

American ways to eat sushi (Warning: some contents might be offensive to some people)

How the Japanese sushi would look like
Nigirizushi
After working in a sushi bar for more than a year, I have found out some hilarious American ways of eating sushi.

They tend to use low sodium soy sauce for a "more healthy" reason, but they also like to dunk their sushi onto the soy sauce to a point that the rice falls apart, and the end up consuming more soy sauce than good sushi eaters who use full sodium soy sauce.

They think eating sushi is health, perhaps because the Japanese have the longest life expectancy in the world and good marketing, yet a majority of them also love the deep-fried rolls, tempura rolls, and rolls that uses a good amount of mayonnaise sauce. Yummy!

They love oversized rolls because they think the bigger the better.

They do not seem to like the traditional sushis (which are actually more healthy), like the nigirizushi, cucumber rolls, and tuna rolls, but they crave the fancy looking rolls with loads of fattening sauce like eel and mayonnaise sauce.

Similar to Chinese food, once healthy Japanese sushi had changed its face into the more fancy-looking, high fat and calories content Americanized sushi rolls.
Deep-fried roll
Another oversauced roll that was marketed as healthy

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