There aren’t many ski areas that can provide fresh sushi at 6,069 feet, but Whistler is only two hours’ drive from the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest via the Sea to Sky Highway, Highway 99. The Roundhouse Lodge, atop the Whistler Gondola, recently underwent a $250,000 renovation and is now a market-style restaurant characterized by its range of international flavors.
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The size of a nigiri sushi piece differs from restaurant to restaurant. The best fit between a piece and a persons actual size of mouth comes when you sit at the counter and the chef actually pays attention to the guest being served. In an article I read in the Nikkei Weekly some of weeks ago, the sushi chef Yosuke Imada of Kuybey in Tokyo could tell us that about “250 grains of rice is just the right size for a person to eat a piece of sushi in one go and to be able to fully relish the taste”.
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They are getting scarce, so the ones that are for sale I guess will be really expensive. A Hong Kong sushi shop paid a record $55,700 for a bluefin tuna the other day in the first auction of 2008 at the Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market, Agence France-Presse reported. Not very promising in regards to people stop fishing them…
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This websites will help you find your sushi - for breakfast, lunch or dinner… As long as you know your Zip-code and are located in the US you can look up restaurants and their reviews easily. This services mashes up Yelp!-reviews onto Google Maps and voila - you know where to go! This service won best Mashup of the day September 13 2007 and you can add it to your own website too. Try it out here:
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Merry Xmas everyone!!
This first year of blogging about sushi has been fun and I have gotten to know a lot of really nice people. Some of the best sushi blogs out there you too should visit are Warrens - Sushi Otaku, Allisons Sushi Day and Trevors The Scrawling Claw. I always hang out at their places to get inspired!
Having the goal of eating myself through the sushi scene in Oslo means that I have eaten a LOT of sushi this year! I am up to 35 restaurants covered, but many still to go. I have lost track on how many there are in total and I feel like they keep on popping up so quickly… And not just quality sushi bars I am afraid…
But there are some good ones out there too! Nodee, Alex Sushi, Nippon Art and Cosmo Thai & Sushi are now on my top 3 list of “sit down restaurants”, while Sushi House in Sporveisgata, Sushi & Wok in Majorstua and Kitty’s Sushi are my top 3 favorite “take away places”.
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With 16 people in our apartment, we felt a bit crowded - but in a good way. When you just sit down and get served food in your own kitchen it’s kind of weird, but in the skilled hands of Arne Austbø from Taku Catering, we were so taken care of. It was a wonderful evening and a sushi experience out of the ordinary!
Mr. Austbø is kind of a novelty in the Oslo restaurant scene. You know this when he comes with his own photographer from the most prestigious financial newspaper in Norway following him around. We’re trendsetters… Really!! Taku Catering is just this one guy who comes to your house and cooks fantastic sushi for you. Here is how an evening like that can look like.
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Now that Christmas is coming, I am trying to get in the mood… I found this very pretty Christmas Sushi, that was created by a Japanese girl that calls herself Ochikeron. She made this for a Japanese cooking contest called the “Sea Food Cooking Contest” back in 2006. Her blog is a collection of writings about her creative cooking and award-winning recipes created for food companies and recipe competitions in Japan.
This beautiful creation was made with minced tuna on top of sushi rice, coated with avocado paste and then topped with mayonnaise, scallion, and salmon roe for decoration. The star is made of cheese!
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Creating a new product is exciting - and a lot of hard work. Sushisi has been a product in the makings for a couple of years, but is now getting closer to a store near you… I got to be there when they launched their product in Norway a couple of weeks back. The inventors, Nayoung Chung Mathiesen and Anne Gro Johansen has developed what is called Sushisi - and they are rolling out their product right now. Sushisi is a sushi set that contains ready made rice, sushi vinegar, cut fish, ginger, wasabi and plastic gloves in the nigiri sets and the same plus nori for the maki set.
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It is getting close to the holidays and trying to come up with those brilliant Christmas gifts. Here is a great gift idea for the sushi lovers among us. Mint Sushi-Time sushi serving plate is both your perfect serving plate with a wide surface for either nigiri sushi or sashimi which slopes toward the center which also holds your soy sauce.
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I found this website with some delicous looking sushi images that you should check out. It is a website for photographers and they are good, because I got hungry just coming there. Windsprite - the photographer also tells us that:
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And could that even be sushi? Is Google the dream work place? At Google they ARE serving free lunches to their employees. At their massive new Manhattan warehouse-turned-office, it sounds and look like a great place to work!
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The Australian surfer Julian Wilson has invented his own aerial manoeuvre. It is a startling combination of a “Superman” (made popular by free-style motocross riders) and a twisting, carving, backhand loop, and Wilson has appropriately dubbed the aerobatic manoeuvre “The Sushi Roll”.
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I was never a big Second Life fan. But for the ones that are - they will be glad to hear that the first sushi restaurant to enter the virtual world of Second Life will be none other than SUSHISAMBA! Of course your virtual self should eat stylish! Sushisamba is a NYC chain also making its way across the US with locations in Texas and the West Coast and now also in the Second Life world - as a first in their genre.
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So in your opinion - what kind of people do you think eat sushi? Or rather, who prefers meat to raw fish - democrats or republicans? I would believe it did differ a bit - so I was glad to find that the guys over at the headquarter of Urbanspoons also wondered about this, and set out to find if there were in fact correlation between choice of favorite food and political opinion - or trying to calculate the Steak/Sushi Index (SSI)! Ahh. What fun minds!
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