Tasty Fish, Tasty Fish...Poison Fish
Growing up in a small midwestern town where the norm was "meat and potatoes", exotic big city type dining experiences were not the norm for me as a youngin'. The closest I ever came to sushi was watching the Fugu episode of the Simpsons where Homer accidently ingests poisonous blowfish and thinks that he is going to die. Aside from the jokes about sushi (printing a map of the hospital on the back of the menu for instance)...I've found that sushi, when prepared correctly can be quite a good dining experience.
Given, that with any food, there is "faux sushi" and then the real thing. What is faux? well, if you can buy it in the deli aisle and it's touching a 15 day old ham sandwich, then I would classify it as faux. Just as a steak from Denny's would be...this kind of sushi is not good at all.
The kind that I speak of is the kind that is prepared right in front of you by a sushi chef, where they give you edamame as an appetizer and don't even offer you silverware. Sushi done correctly can be absolutely wonderful. Of course anyone that knows me would realize that my love of sushi that has crab and shrimp in it is logical. Being that it is Friday night it may be time to head out to the sushi bar, kick back a Sapporo, and enjoy cuisine that is fresh and exciting.
posted by EZMezzo at 4:22 PM
8 Comments:
BT BT BT BT Enough Said! Sushi is already considered a delicacy by some--and now the local grocery stores are just not good enough for you---how times/people changes
Who the hell is anonymous? Why says BT other than us? Is it one of your coworkers, Mezzo?
The Sapporo sounds good, just had my first sushi experience and didn't care for it much, even though it was just a vegetable roll. Edamame doesn't sound bad.
Do you ever make sushi at home? tina's quite the addict and sometimes her boyfriend will roll one for her.
Nope, dealing with something as delicate as seafood makes me a little cautious trying to do it myself. I will leave it to the professionals...
I just read something in a magaizine. Sushi from the grocery store may taste like crap, but it may be safer because of better refrigeration or something like that. I could actually look it up but I won't.
I guess the refrigeration comment makes sense. I guess the moral is to not buy sushi from places that are a little on the questionable side. Like that Volkswagon Commercial where they go out into the desert to buy sushi and put it in the AC'd glove box. No thanks...
Supermarkget sushi is safer because of better refrgeration? I think there is an important distinction to be made here.... It sounds like it should go something like this... "If you are eating premade sushi you are best with the stuff at the supermarket because the refrigeration is better than stuff you may make yourself at home." Is that what the article was saying?! If so there is this to consider. If you are eating pre-made sushi haven't you already made a wrong turn? Fish at any legitimate sushi bar hasn't been dead long enough for refrigeration to be a concern. If it has it's been flash frozen at the fishery and shipped in from the coast in foam cryo-containers packed with dry ice.
yeah, i think it was flash-frozen. that was the thing.
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