This video of dancing sushi people comes from a morning program for children on Japanese TV. Very cute. Very Japanese. A great way to learn the correct words for sushi. Which is important for children. Right?
Ahh. I wish we had TV-shows like this! This Japanese originated TV-show “Iron Chef” has it’s first sushi battle in their Kitchen Stadium. Edo style sushi chef Keiji Nakazawa vs. Iron Chef Japanese Masahara Morimoto. Fascinating! I love the actor guys facial expressions and his American voice over…
Making the Sushi I
See the rest of the post for the other parts of the program.
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Sushi Deluxe just opened in May 2007 and it is located in the popular intersection between Schweigaardgate and Grønlandsleiret. It is great that there are several places opening up on the east side of town, and Le Meo Sushi - who also recently opened a restaurant on Grønland - will get a run for their money in Sushi Deluxe.
It looks a bit dodgy from the outside, and you can’t really call it a restaurant - it is a take out place with a couple of tables inside. In addition to sushi they also serve some other things like ice cream, cakes and some wok dishes, but it was their sushi menu was what we were after.
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It is a couple of years ago (2005), but this guy set his mind to covering all of London’s sushi restaurants in zone 1. Now that is impressive! It seems to last him only a couple of months, but in that time he covered a whole bunch. I wonder what happened?
Nol and the Quest for Sushi is an adventure of epic proportions inwhich I will eat in every sushi restaurant in London zone 1 by the end of the year. That’s nine months. This is London. That’s a lot of restaurants.
As Master Yoda says “Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.”
House of Sushi has three restaurants in Oslo. They claim that this is their flag ship restaurant, and being quite happy with their one in Skøyen, I was looking forward to going here. I was not let down as such, but…
What we had was all just - mmyeah - I don’t know; Just another sushi place doing what everyone else is doing - not excelling in any way - taste wise or presentation wise. Not inspired, and therefore not very inspiring.
>> Continue reading ‘House of Sushi - Frogner, Oslo’
Especially if you are a novice and need to read an articles about how to eat sushi (I am, I admit that) then it is very important that you learn how to choose a good sushi bar. I feel like I have met so many people that say they hate sushi, and when they tell me their experience, it has been with picking up cold, old sushi at a corner store or going to a all you can eat sushi place where everything is greasy and the fish is just sloppy. None of which you should really do. Not at least until you know there are also something called good sushi out there.
I think it is really sad to think that these people cannot enjoy sushi because of they had this bad first experience. Here are some pointers that I have found in choosing a good sushi restaurant. Doing this blog and having to eat at almost all of Oslo’s good and bad sushi places has given me some insight into spotting good and bad ones. Unfortunately we don’t have many good ones.
Amigurumi Sushi by Christen Haden (Usa)
I found this and thought they were cute. I must be hungry because it kind of looks good…
I think I need to go get some ginger.
Chef Morimoto received nearly eight years of culinary training in Hiroshima at a restaurant specializing in sushi and traditional Kaiseki cuisine. At the age of 25 Morimoto opened his own restaurant in Hiroshima. Morimoto soon distinguished himself from his peers by infusing European and Western cooking techniques and ingredients into his preparations. Five years later, Morimoto sold the restaurant and purchased a round-trip ticket to the United States seeking to further explore and define his unique Japanese fusion. Although Hawaii, California, Louisiana, and New York were all on the itinerary, Morimoto abandoned his travels and his plans to return to Japan. He immediately settled in Manhattan.
Morimoto spent the next few years working in some of New York City’s most notable Japanese restaurants. Then in 1993, Morimoto joined restaurateur, Barry Wine of Quilted Giraffe fame, as the executive chef at the Sony Club, the exclusive dining arena for Sony Corporation’s executive staff and visiting V.I.P.’s. Morimoto’s dream to present his Japanese fusion in a western setting was realized.
Hiroki is an expert sushi chef who headed up the famous London restaurant, Nobu.
Hiroki completed a sushi chef apprenticeship in Osaka, Japan. To broaded his experience, he then moeve to Europe and arrived in a cold and rainy London in February 1982 with just a small suitcase and his sushi knives. For the next ten years he worked in the city’s noted Japanese restaurants.
We were not going to this place had it not been for that Soho was closed that day. Ahh, what luck! It caused us to find a gem!! The restaurant opened last year, but moved to also use downstairs around April of 2007. We were pretty alone in there for our Sunday lunch, but if they keep up their good work, I am sure this place will be packed. It was a real treat!
We all love tempura maki - and these guys had several of them. They had a separate sushi menu with special maki, deep fried maki and regular nigiri sushi, sashimi and maki.
I don’t think they really know each other, but they were seen in the same restaurant at the same time - so therefor they get to be celebrity couple together here on Sushi or Death. American rap artist Kanye West and Jack Bauer himself, Mr. Kiefer Sutherland were both dining at Benihana near the Beverly Center.
>> Continue reading ‘Sushi Celebrity - Kanye West and Kiefer Sutherland.’
Going into a sushi bar to have sushi for the first time might be scary. But you should aslo think that it is about having fun and that it is an experience you will treasure. This is how I go about it, and even being so much into it like I am, I feel like I am learning something new about it all the time!
I was asked to put up a post on how you actually behaved in a sushi bar. I am not an expert, so I needed some help in this. I found some websites that I found good, in addition to looking up some of my Japanese books on the subject.
Nama is a very nice sushi place located close to the old part of the harbor front of Bergen. Their restaurant is modern and clean, and it seems to be quite popular. The sound level in the restaurant was a bit loud though and it was hard to hear each other talk when the place got full.
But we were there to eat, not to talk. Right? 
We ordered lots of different things off their menu. Mostly maki, but also some nigiri sushi.
>> Continue reading ‘Nama Sushi & Noodles - Bryggene, Bergen’
Sumo has a great location in Bergen city center. It looks great both from the outside and gives a real authentic, japanese feel inside - and it was fun to be able to sit “in the floor” on pillows similar to what you do in Japan. I was really positively surprised by the look and feel of this place.
The menu too was quite extensive, so I was all smiles there for a while. But then came the food. It was not that it was that bad. It was ok, but I had just built up such really high expectations…
>> Continue reading ‘Sumo - Sentrum, Bergen’
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