Here the sushi chef explains in Japanese his technique on how to make nigiri sushi. I don’t get all of it, but his motions are useful. Anyone care to translate in a comment?
Shootin Sushi Flash Games
Are you secret agent material? They eat and shoot a lot of sushi apparently! We posted the trailer for this movie earlier - now we found the game. The purpose of this game is to shoot the sushi and other objects off the conveyor belt without missing. Don’t miss the agent!
I went hunting for more of the bento box artists out there. This gallery has lots of really beautiful examples, some of them so lifelike that they are almost freaky. I have this thing for things with eyes. Here are several examples. I love the octopus!
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Nydalen is a bit unknown territory for me. It seems like a nice area, with lots of businesses and since the business school moved up there, they also get a lot of young kids wandering around, which makes the whole place feel like a happening place. We ventured up there to have lunch and try out “Eat Nydalen”, a viet-thai-sushi place… Did I hear sceptical? Yup. And founded.
This place is not run by Japanese and they have no respect for the Japanese food traditions. They have some of their stuff on the menu in Japanese, but get plain outright annoyed if you say you want unagi for eel, to mention an example.
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This video from Videojug.com shows you also how to fillet and prepare a round fish - which in the end means cook it, but what I liked to learn was just to fillet it. Not sure if I am up for trying just yet though. Need to get more used to cutting up just fish filets first…. (Sissy, I know…)
So 90 degrees to the texture of the fish, huh? Good to know!
Just make sure it you are not cutting a Bluefin tuna.
Yosuke Imada is the owner of the gigantic sushi restaurant Kuybei in Tokyo. It was his father that originally founded the venerable, five-floor establishment in 1936. For more than 30 years, Mr. Imada has expanded Kyubei beyond Ginza - while maintaining its reputation as a veritable Japanese institution.
He has turned Kyubei into a $30 million enterprise with a total of seven restaurants, including several at some of the most prestigious hotels in Tokyo and Osaka, a thriving world-wide catering business, even a department store take-home sushi shop, all without losing the reputation for quality and service for which the restaurant is widely praised.
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More people obsessed with making sushi out of other things than rice and fish… Here is another one I found on Craftster.com - who made some sushi out of polymer clay for her mom for her birthday. She says:
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I did not know how you open and eat a sea urchins straight from the ocean. Maybe I will have to try this at some point. They do make it sound good even though I have a hard time with things that look slimy…
Do you remember Habbo Hotel? I remember it for being one of the first, really original communities online. To some degree it still is I think. This 3D pixelworld that invites you in for things like chats, a swim in the pool, live music concerts or sex education (!) is a weird mix of a game, what feels like an actual, physical environment and virtual reality. They have an amazingly 75 million users registered! Now they also do sushi! They recently had a competition where you were to build your own sushi restaurant. From the invitation for the competition:
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A new sushi bar opened in Tøyen about a month ago (August 2007). I have been a bit reluctant to go there, because I really wanted it to be good, hoped it at least would be ok, but expected it to be mediocre or plain out bad. It was mediocre.
Restaurants have been opening and closing in this venue with all kinds of different food as long as we have lived here. This time sushi was going on the menu. Not because the ones who run the restaurant are trained sushi chefs from Japan looking to open their perfect sushi bar and serve you a both visually and palatable meal, but more because they are in the “opening another restaurant business” and sushi is the type of food you can charge more for than any other asian type (fast) food.
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They are competing about who is first to finish eating a sushi roll that is 6m (20 feet) long? It is filled with tuna, mystery fish and a stretch has only pure wasabi. Wow! Impressive. And kind of disgusting too. I feel like they won’t be having more sushi rolls in a while. I would not want to cure my sushi hang-up that way.
I am in the sushi cake mood these days. Gotten to be a visual sweet tooth. The guys at the Evil Mad Scientist Lab made their dessert to look like sushi and a lot of it too! Impressive!
To make this dessert sushi they used a simple white cake in the bottom, sliced to look like little cakes of rice. For wasabi, they used hard icing with a little bit of green food color added, and the the seaweed (nori) wrapper is made of something called “Fruit by the foot,”. The toppings include thin sliced twizzlers, miniature jawbreakers (as roe), and Swedish Fish (gummy fish?). From their description of the process:
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“Combining style with function the sushi board makes for a delicious and attractive presentation”. And it is pretty! It is the kind of thing you use when you ask your date over for dinner, and end up serving her or him sushi. Then I think this is the perfect gadget. This has the look and feel of high end stylish sushi bars. The Sunday Express said about it back in August 2005:
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I am not sure if the smell is what I enjoy most about the sushi experience. Yes, it plays a very important part of it, but from that to wearing it like perfume… I don’t know.
In addition to the “typical” cologne spray, the sushi scent is also available in Bath and Shower oils and gels, calming lotion and room spray! This is interesting. Wanna have your house smell like a sushi bar?
The company that sells this innovative and exiting fragrance is Demeter Fragrance Library. They are said to specializes in “everyday” scents. From their website they state about the smell of the sushi scent:
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