Elaine Parrish wrote:
>
> 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:.
>> www.velvet-c.com
>> 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
>

wow, i'd never heard of that before. I wouldn't eat it myself, but I guess if
it makes money then the guy's got a solid business plan.

Does it look raw?

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