Sushi House in Sporveisgata has become one of my favorites in Oslo. This is their second sushi bar, but I have no idea what they share other than the name. It was not Sushi House quality!
I find Sake labels very beautiful. I found an image from “The Book of Sake: A Connoisseur’s Guide
Sotohiro Kosugi won Food & Wine Magazine’s annual Best New Chef award back in 1997, when he was working at Soto Japanese Restaurant, Atlanta (now closed).
For 11 years, Kosugi, a third-generation sushi chef, made sushi in the South, developing such an impressive reputation in Atlanta that he decided to try his hand up in New York.
Kosugi left Atlanta to open Soto in Manhattan’s West Village in May 2007. He serves as sushi chef, serving dishes like Japanese bream with ginger-scallion oil and Long Island fluke with lime, sea salt and yuzu zest from the 12-seat sushi bar, while his wife, Maho, oversees the kitchen.
Kosugi is famous for his “expansive, haute-Japanese cuisine”. Whatever that means..? Sounds interesting. Will have to go there once to try him (them) out.
(Not sure if the chef in the picture is Mr. Kosugi, but it is at least taken at his restaurant in NY)
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I set a goal of trying out all the sushi bars we had in my city. We are talking Oslo here, a small city of half a million people. It means you have to go to about 30-40 places, and I thought that was quite a lot. Then I read about this guy. He calls himself the Sushi Monster - and he woke up hungry for sushi and went out to try out all sushi places on the San Fransisco peninsula. Here is his story:
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You can see and smell if a fish is good, but determining its keeping quality requires more precise methods. At Aqua Nor, Fiskeriforskning demonstrates a freshness gauge that gives the answer at once. To determine how fresh the fish is - and provided it has been properly stored - fish fillet producers work out the time since the fish was caught.
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More from the Superpretzlers 2007. Does anything Wasabi say make any sense? Can El Salsador actually fight? Is Super Captain Cheese Wizard the greatest 12-year-old color commentator/superhero ever? Watch and find out.
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The Wasabi Way - Presentation of Wasabi the Superpretzel
Superpretzel 2007
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are of course into sushi! The Pitt-Jolie family has been in the Chicago area while Angelina has been shooting her latest film, Wanted. After spending some quality time with their children at the Field’s museum, Brad and Angelina decided spend an evening alone together.
They were spotted going on a date to the restaurant Japonais in Chicago where the pair spent some time chatting with the local rap star, Kanye West, who also dined at this sushi restaurant. Japonais is a contemporary Japanese and sushi restaurant which has locations in New York, Chicago, and Las Vegas.
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This is maybe the best online tutorial of how to make a proper California roll I have seen. I have already two other videos on here, but I think I like this one the best. Enjoy!
I don’t know if you have tried this feature yet, Google Maps. You probably have - it’s nothing new - but I still think it is a really nice feature! In Google Maps you can search for whatever you are looking for and the search result is then linked to a map. What I did was search for sushi, oslo, norway - and then I get all the sushi restaurants that are registered in their systems tagged with sushi. Here is what it looks like when you search for sushi, london:
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Written by: Snorre M., London
Moshi Moshi is a conveyor-belt Japanese restaurant conveniently located at Liverpool Station, and thus attracts a mixed crowd of City businessmen and travellers who prefer their fast food served on a slab of rice instead of between hamburger buns.
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I remember this being a classic from back in the dot.com days! It needed to go on my website somewhere… I am glad I found it. It was good seeing it again!
Wasaaaabi! 
Guest Writer: Phil Haack
Do you remember that episode of the Simpsons (number 24 to be exact) where Homer takes his family to a Japanese restaurant and orders the blowfish (fugu)? Yeah, me too.
My father-in-law took us out to a very traditional Japanese dinner as a celebration of a friends impending wedding. Here’s a picture of our room and Akumi listening attentively as our server tells her the menu (or something like that. I couldn’t understand as it sounded like a bunch of jibberish to me. I think they call it “Nihongo” or “Japanese” to you and me).
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Tokyocube is a website for people who are looking for both information about Japanese stuff and also find Japanese restaurants in London.
“Tokyocube was founded in 2005 from a growing need for fresh and fun online information on the ever-more fashionable Japanese lifestyle, as well as tailored services directed at both Japanese and English clients to bridge the gap between the two nations. We have a young and dynamic team of Japanese and English individuals, working passionately to spread the word on Japanese culture in the UK, providing lifestyle features, directory listings, and dedicated Japanese services.”
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Here is another video that shows you how to make kasari maki, or fancy maki sushi as they call it here. I so wanna learn how to do this! Must practice. Must practice.
I know - these are old pictures, but I still find them cute. He needed to go on here. But when I started looking around, Nemo is a popular figure to poka at. Not only is he put into makis, he also have lots of videos on YouTube where they renamed the movie into “Finding Sushi”. I did not really think they were that funny though.
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