On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, The Bubbo wrote:

> Elaine Parrish wrote:
> >
> > I don't know who said what, so I clipped everybody's name (E,t <g>)
> >>
> >> > Example: I don't eat raw fish. I know that lots of people adore sushi
> >> > bars, but I can't bring myself to try it.
> >>
> >
> > I don't eat raw fish, either (I don't eat much fish of any kind).
> >
> > A friend of mine adores sushi and I like tempura well enough to get
> > through an evening of her great company. I wasn't sure I was
> > going enjoy sitting across the table from her, though. However, when her
> > sushi plate came, there were two shrimp things (a cube of cold rice,
> > shrimp on top, wrapped in a dark green weed [seaweed?}).
> >
> > Both the shrimp were pink. I didn't know enough about the other fish to
> > know whether or not it was cooked. A little investigating proved that it
> > was, too.
> >
> > Tee hee hee. All the folks that I know that were bragging about eating raw
> > fish were either misinformed or just rattling everyone else's cage.
> >
> > Sashimi is the raw stuff and it isn't offered anywhere around here. But
> > that hasn't stopped most of the people I know from talking about cool it
> > is to eat "raw" fish. <g>
> >
> > The shrimp were very large and very good. It's the cold glob of rice and a
> > huge weed ribbon I can't abide.
> >
> > Elaine, too
> >
>
> There are a few cooked items commonly found on a sushi plate, shrimp is one,
> freshwater eel is another. You can get the shrimp raw, aba-emi, but I don't
> like it and I think it's always overcooked so i avoid the shrimp altogether.
>
> Did your friend only get shrimp? Or did she get a sushi plate that included
> only cooked items? I'm confused about this. What kind of sushi restaurant only
> serves cooked fish? Generally, when I go to get sushi I only get one cooked
> piece, generally the eel. Most of the precooked things (tempura rolls,
> california rolls) tend to be over-flavored and you miss out on the fresh, raw
> flavor of a lot of the fish. Since I have a finite amount of room in my belly,
> I'm going to focus on what I'm paying for, namely raw fish based sushi.
>
> the fish or shrimp over a block of rice is called nigiri, raw fish alone is
> sashimi, rolls are maki.
>
> --
> .:Heather:.
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> Step off, beyotches, I'm the roflpimp!
>


Geez, I don't know. Sheesh, I live in Plum Nelly (Plum outta the city and
Nelly outta the county <g>). To the west is Podunk, to the east is
Alabama, and to the north is the "wide place in the road". This is not the
end of the earth, but you can see it from here.

A Japanese restaurant opened up here. They have a sushi bar. My friend
ordered the sushi plate. Everything was served on a block of rice and
everything was "steamed".

She's a military brat and has lived all over. She has eaten raw fish
(IMHO: boo, hiss). I didn't want the details (that was after she began a
story about something still wiggling).

She admitted (to my whining about raw fish) that what she had was steamed.
I guess she could tell by the taste.

This little Asian man was walking around the place like the manager.
Oddly, he looked Chinese. He and my friend struck up a conversation. Come
to find out, he was a Chinese man that owned this Japanese restaurant who
had been in the restaurant business for 40 some odd years - most
recently, he had owned a Mexican restaurant. Nice man. Interesting life.

Anyway, our little town is overrun by Chinese and Mexican restaurants (all
having been "Americanized". sheesh), so he decided to go Japanese. So, I'm
not holding my breath that there is any resemblence to "real" Japanese
food here. He did say the fish was steamed because [backwoods] Americans
like it better that way. The tempura is good - more or less.

About this time, I am sorely tempted to ask for a burrito, but alas...

So, that is the story of the sushi.

Elaine, too