Here is your chance to test your niche skill. How much do you really know about sushi? I did quite good - 87%. Not perfect though. Thought some of the questions were quite hard to answer, but because I did not understand their meaning of the question. (Typically me - explaining why I did not do a 100%…).
Why don’t you try?
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As you probably have understood - I adore Sushi Art! Look at it! It is absolutely amazing! I found these Kazari Maki-zushi images when I went looking for sushi art. The Japan Foundation in Sydney Australia had an event about kazari maki-zushi this summer.
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I have had or seen Korean sushi been made before. It is interesting, but I will definitely stick to the Japanese way of doing it. It feels more like it appreciate the subtleties. Details. The art of sushi… You know…
What’s with the paper plates here anyway? Don’t they use chopping boards in Korea? Hm.

I’ve seen this concept of naked sushi pop up lots of places lately. Hadaka Sushi is one of these restaurants that are mentioned in that contex. “Hadaka” means naked in Japanese which is very much the theme at the Hadaka Sushi restaurant, and their proclaimed concept is “sushi gone naughty”. I think I would add - “sushi gone sex industry American”. The restaurant is located in the heart of West Hollywood on Sunset strip and is an “Adults Only” Sushi restaurant, bar and lounge.

This website is dedicated to what she calls real food. It has a large section on Japanese food and sushi. It is run by this girl called Makiko (but her friends and family all call her Maki (cute!)). She was born in Tokyo, but grew up all over the place - in various sections of Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture in Japan; in three different places in England; and around the New York City area. She says about the content on her website:
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On Tuesday, September 18 the Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce will hold the second regional event to qualify for the SushiMasters Finals. The event will be held at the Sacramento Asian Sports Foundation Facility, and here you will be able to watch the Sacramento region’s top sushi chefs compete for a spot in the 2008 SushiMasters Finals, scheduled for June 2008!
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Innovative use of both the term and the looks of sushi - the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Food Science Club developed something not made of fish, but of fruit. The dessert item, named Kudamushi Fruit Sushi, earned second place last weekend (July 28-29 2007) in the annual Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) product development competition in Chicago.
Don’t do it.
Just don’t do it.
You all remember the jumping in the sofa, and numerous interviews with a mad, mad Tom Cruise… But do you remember how it started? And what helped them on their way to this maddening love relationship? You guessed it. Sushi!
- Katie Holmes secretly flew to Los Angeles after Cruise summoned her to a private meeting at his office. Four hours of banter later, Cruise fessed up and asked the young actress on a sushi date.
The next evening, the sushi date occurred not at a restaurant but aboard Cruise’s private jet, 15,000 feet above Southern California, Us reports. That was followed by a ride on his motorcycle, a romantic beach trip and more secret dates….
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This woman, Junka Terashimam, is a true artist! The lunch boxes she creates for her kids really belongs in a museum. We’ll pretend we are an online Louvre today:

No - they are not your next lunch. They’re USB memory sticks. Some of them have up to 1 GB of memory and costs around $100 on eBay and other similar websites. There are probably for sale on some Japanese but I could not find it. They are cool, though. I would want the futomaki one. More pictures:

Sudoku is quite addictive. Sushi is very addictive… This is a sushi sudoku game - will it have you play again and again?
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Sushi Links say they offer the best sushi resources on the web, as well as information on the history of sushi, pointers on sushi etiquette, and answers to frequently asked questions concerning sushi. I cannot see that they point to my website, so I would not call them complete… (:)), but they have a lot of really interesting content.
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