/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5126931

God, I wish I liked sushi. But for the life of my I can't figure out why it's delicious to other people. Vinegar-soaked rice.. raw seafood... ugh.

I like the seaweed ok but other than that..

salmon avocado roll

I just get sushi bowl whenever I go for sushi. It's chef's choice so I don't have to pick anything and I like the surprise. Once, I was given slices of roasted tenderloin on it. I was like "whaaaaaaaaaaa-!" with happiness.

crunchy rolls

I love salmon sashimi but I feel like having it with rice makes it harder to taste the flavours. Favourite rice thing is inarizushi, can't beat that sweet/salty goodness.

Red snapper nigiri

and

Spider roll

roll with deep fried tempura prawns inside. otherwise salmon nigiri.

While not my favorite, I almost always order tekka maki first thing when at a place I've never been to before. Then I judge the entire restaurant based on the quality of the fish used in the tekka maki. It seems to have been a pretty good way of determining how much/what sushi I want to further order.

I'm not sure if I have a favorite, but uni did immediately come to mind.

>>5127065

>inarizushi

I don't really like sweet things, so I always order that for "dessert" (I just eat it last).

I'm that guy who always chooses the cheese plate for the dessert option.

>almost nowhere offers cheese plates these days and going out for sushi are some of the only times i get dessert

I love eel rolls

Anyone else here who can't eat sushi by itself?

I love sushi as a side-dish to a bigger meal, but whenever I eat sushi and only sushi for a meal I start feeling sick before I am even proper full.

Probably has something to do with the fact that I am eating cold raw fish, I have similar problems with some other cold dishes.

>>5127262

No. You're alone on that front.

>>5127262
I've never had sushi with cold fish before, but it sounds sort of gross.
All the sushi I've ever had had fish at room temperature.

>>5127262

I really only eat shrimp sushi and I dip it in spicy mayo

>maximum pleb

Tuna hold the rice.

>>5126945
>Vinegar-soaked rice.. raw seafood

raw seafood is delicious, though.

can't even make sushi myself because i eat all the salmon as sashimi and then i have to make onigiri with the rice and seaweed.

>>5126945
>raw seafood
95% of sushi in America, particularly rolls, does not contain raw seafood. You have to ask for nigirizushi or sashimi to get raw fish.
You don't know a thing about sushi and I bet you overcook your eggs and your meat.

>>5127890

Where the fuck are you eating Sushi at? Even the most podunk ass places have sushi with raw fish. And yes, it is fucking raw. You can tell the difference between cooked tuna and raw tuna real fucking easy.

>>5127906
he's probably including gas station california rolls in his definition of sushi.

>>5127065
>inarizushi
It's the best. That sweet slightly chewy tofu pocket with the salty vinegary cold rice is amazing.

I wish I could make it at home, somehow. I'm hesitant to work with tofu, because I can't even press the water out of it right without it crumbling apart

>>5126931
As I enter my 3rd decade of eating and making sushi, I find myself gravitating more and more to the basics. Nigiri. Salmon, tuna, scallop, mackerel. Probably ultra boring to anyone here.

>>5128473
Few things are better than scallop and mackerel, but don't tell anybody you heard that here.

I had 'proper' sushi for the first time in one of the best sushi places in Busan, Korea this Christmas. Didn't recognize half the fish but one thing I did know which I really enjoyed was halibut. But goddamn each new piece was an absolute pleasure.
Quite unlike the 9 mediocre as fuck salmon rolls and 2 avocado rolls you get where I live.

>>5127148
>always get free desert because sushi-san is a total bro

Spicy tuna sashimi is the shit. If not that, I just like simple things like california rolls or spider rolls.

My overall favorite is probably a just salmon sushi.

If I'm moving into rolls, gold dragon or a spider roll with a piece of salmon sashimi on each slice.

Never been a huge fan of tuna, or maybe its just shitty at the places I go to.

Tekka don.

I've never been able to actually taste the vinegar in the rice (which is good, because I hate vinegar).

>>5127921
The pockets are available pre-prepared in cans, we get them all the time.

Favourite sushi is all pretty much the vegetarian options, I've had the fish and I generally find it lacks flavour and I don't like the mouth feel it's just sticky when it's not cooked. Cucumber Maki is number 1.

Smoked salmon nigiri, topped off with just a tad of creamcheese and dill. Pleb as fuck, but god damn it's delicious.

Avocado roll, cucumber roll, inarizushi.

>>5128760
>smoke fish and schmear
I fucking love jewshi!

>>5128951
Eh what?

>>5129005
See the first pic and its description:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel

Sushi's just another white teenage girl phase thing. Like Starbucks.

>>5130331
lol right. a fad. like television, or rock and roll

>>5126931
spicy tuna is my go to for a cheap lunch, obviously I'm not ordering that a nice restaurant

>>5130331
> I'm a fucking dolt

>>5130331
Is this nigger serious? Sushi, and hell Starbucks, may be new to whatever podunk shithole you hail from, but both have been around for quite some time, and will likely remain. They are hardly fads.

>>5130375
>>5130350
fad and phase are two very different things. Just because it's been around for a long time doesn't mean its popularity spike isn't a stupid phase.

vegan sushi, especially sweet potato or avocado

>>5130396
I love avocado maki, it's my favourite.
My real question is does anyone on here not like wasabi? To me it makes the difference. Sushi by itself with soy sauce is nice and all but wasabi makes its perfect.

>>5130378
This. And I, as a sushi fan, hope that this overstuffed spicy-honey-bbq bigass rolls drowning in sauce phase ends soon. Whenever a coworker or someone asks me if I like and/or want sushi, my immediate answer is NO. It's better to avoid frustrating conversations and misunderstandings that way.

>>5130416
I think a lot of people here haven't actually had wasabi.
A lot of "wasabi" is pretty much normal horseradish.

>>5130438
What? putting horseradish on sushi? In America does that really trick people?

teriyaki chicken and avocado mmmmmm

>>5130452
It's not just an American thing.
Wasabi is incredibly temperamental to grow, and you can only grow it at specific times of the year. It's also really expensive and used sparingly.

Even if a product is labeled as being wasabi, that doesn't entail it to be entirely wasabi.

>>5130470
I've only had it in Japan though to be honest (fiancée's family live there), is the wasabi in the UK fake as well? was planning to go somewhere on valentines day

>>5130489
I would think there's a good chance of that, especially if it was complimentary.

Depending on your supplier/how good the crops were this year/ if it was grown in a greenhouse outside of japan/ whatever, it can be 30-50 dollars for 2 ounces.

Even in Japan it can be supplemented with different parts of the plant(like the leaves). It's not too much of a stretch to spread it out with horseradish, since they're pretty closely related and taste similar. (I've heard it kind of tastes like asparagus though)

This is the closest thing I could find to what I'm looking for, so I'll ask here.

Where do you guys go to get more international/Asian, and more specifically, Japanese ingredients? I went to my local "Japanese" supermarket and they didn't have half the ingredients I needed for Okonomiyaki. I don't know where else to look.

>>5130589
Mitsuwa. If you don't have one close by then use Amazon, skip local "asian" grocery stores since they are run usually by korean/vietnamese/indians and don't have the same high standards as the Japanese.

Grilled mackerel sushi.

catfish nuggets

>Shrimp sushi dipped in spicy mayo
>tfw max pleb.

Once or twice a year I'll treat myself to a dozen or so eel nigiri. So good but so pricey.

I loooove unagi, and will eat it just about any way that I can get it. Give me salmon sashimi any day, too. Spicy salmon is boss. I love inarizushi as well, but usually eat it at the end as "dessert." It's maximum pleb but I really like California rolls. I think because it was the first kind of sushi I had it's more like a reminder of good memories than actual taste. I don't know anyone who orders California rolls when they go out anymore.

I have allergic reactions to avocado and cucumber so I can't have those in my sushi anymore. *sad face*

Anyone had sushi with brown rice? I want to enjoy sushi more often but I don't want unhealthy white rice

All of it

>>5131241
A little Japanese health food joint (more of a stall in a market) does brown rice sushi. Ome of the most amazing things I ever ate was a little roll they did with brown rice and smoked mackerel.

But thinking white rice is unhealthy is just plain silly. White carbs aren't evil. A pattern of eating that includes lots of them in conjunction with lots of animal fat, sugar and very little vegetable fiber is what's evil.

>>5131241
I had vegan brown rice sushi. It's delicious, but the rice has a bite to it that some people might not like. You can feel the individual grains, and it has a unique taste to it.

I had pumpkin, daikon radish, leek and chive, red pepper and green bean, along with some shitake cucumber rolls. Fucking delicious.

>>5131256

>But thinking white rice is unhealthy is just plain silly. White carbs aren't evil. A pattern of eating that includes lots of them in conjunction with lots of animal fat, sugar and very little vegetable fiber is what's evil.

Yeah... that's because it's unhealthy

>>5131338

>>5131355

Well come on, you're trying to tell me "it's not unhealthy, it's just that if you eat it, it has a negative effect on you and you should be eating other things as much as possible instead"

How does that not make white rice unhealthy? That's like the definition of what unhealthy is

>>5131338
Yeah, those Japs must be SUPER unhealthy.
White rice is the devil, that's why they live longer than anybody else.
Same for pasta and the Italians.

>>5131367

Well, I know the people of Okinawa are the healthiest group in Japan, and they don't eat white rice, they eat mostly sweet potatoes and green vegetables with a very small amount of fish

I love deep fried rolls slathered in spicy sauces.

Beyond that I also really like raw yellowtail, that shit is fucking orgasmic.

Get an unagi handroll with uni on it. It's sex.

>>5131376
All of Asia eat a lot of white rice. It's perfectly fine to eat. I think thousands of years on such a large population of people that live to a healthy age when practically ALL of their meals are served with a heaping bowl of white rice.

>>5131437

That would be a fine thing to say IF we had studies that looked at white rice consumption by itself and found it to be beneficial. Instead, every time we look at white rice we see it reacting badly with people. Every population has diets filled with shitty food, white rice being a lesser shitty food than the shitty food the west eats doesn't mean it's not still shitty food, especially when you factor in all the other great things asian countries do in the way of health, like regular exercise, high vegetable intake, and high legume intake in south Asia

Anything from Jiro's.

>>5131437
yeah
I think carbs are basically fine if your food is low fat, it's just the combination(prominent as fuck in most western countries) is unhealthy. Asian lifestyles are way less sedentary than most too.

>>5131476

>I think carbs

Stop right there and acknowledge that "carbs" refers to a lot more than white rice

My top three (by category)

Old-school nigiri-sushi:
1.Shime Saba
2.Chu-Toro
3.Australian Spanish Mackerel

Western-style sushi:
1. Soft-shell crab tempura with mayo
2. Beef tataki with minced ginger
3. Tempura prawn with tobiko

>>5127227
>tfw eel is cooked because their blood is toxic

cool. not sure if this only applies to freshwater though.

As for me there's nothing better than good octopus or fatty tuna

I can really only eat Nigiri though. Maki is a maybe, though I'm not particularly fond of nori or when it's full of a bunch of other ingredients.

There was one thing I ate though that just ruined my day. it was sort of like a fried wonton pocket or something and inside was like these jellied...green...plant strands?

It was gross and the mouthfeel was horrendous. Not sure exactly what it was but it was with the sushi.

Spicy tuna and unagi rolls. I love screaming orgasms for sashimi dishes.

disgusting gook shit. food tastes better when you cook it. lazy yellow slope niggers.

>>5131554
you cook stuff because your stuff is of lower quality and you get sick if it's uncooked.

Point to food like sashimi is that the meat is so fresh and clean that it needs no cooking.

I have a feeling this is one of those "lemme post this for shits and tinglies" kind of posts, but soufle.

I like the ones with a little avocado in 'em. So creamy and delicious.

Wurst Sushi

>>5132239

>>5132239
I love sushimi

>>5129005
>What is Lox and Cream Cheese Bagel.

>>5132239
Yep, looks like it

http://youtu.be/bDL8yu34fz0

>>5130489

I think most of wasabi sold is "fake" its basicly other raddishes with green colouring and a little wasabi.

>>5128473
I'm with you, anon. Nigiri is not boring at all! While rolls are fine, sometimes all one wants is to fully savor and appreciate the fine taste of raw seafood and how it contrasts the blank canvas it's sitting on.

My favorite is mackerel. Dat flavorful, fatty, fishy flesh... I can't even.

>>5134721
In Sweden at least, I've heard it's horse raddish with a very small amount of mustard and some green colouring. Real Wasabi is fucking expensive. Me and my friend went to a high end sushi place in Gothemburg that used real wasabi. It tastes more and feels a lot fresher.
He told us he used to get it for like $ 1400 per kilo, but he started buying it from a new farm that started in England somewhere, which was about 1/3 of the price.

>>5134726
>appreciate the fine taste of raw seafood and how it contrasts the blank canvas it's sitting on.
The rice is the most important part of sushi though. Perfecting the sushi rice is hard as fuck. And also the making of the nigiri is all about making the rice airy in the centre. Anyone can cut a piece of fish and put it on a ball of rice.

>>5134812
Sushi in Sweden is fucking awful.

>>5126931
>OP makes sushi thread
>Posts image of gimbap.

>>5135439

Chu-toro is very delicious. It is kinda worth its hefty price.

tuna or salmon, preferably with avocado

chu toro nigiri - worth every penny!.

>>5135443

i laugh every time its posted

>>5126931
>gimbap
>>5135443
>japanese elitism

euch

Anyway, I just like a simple salmon nigiri best. Generally, the fewer ingredients in a piece of sushi, the better, in my opinion. I like the idea of something really simple, that highlights the freshness and deliciousness of its few ingredients. It's like a really high quality steak. Are you going to cover it in spices and marinades and then slather it in sauce? No! If you did that, you might as well have bought the cheapest, most processed puck of not-meat in the supermarket bargain bin.

Guy Fieri's brisket sushi

it's money