What supermarket brand Sushi is the best?

[Anonymous No.12618265]

When you can't afford 10 dollars a roll at a good sushi joint, what supermarket do you go to?

[Anonymous No.12618289]

>>12618265
Fry’s hands down but if there’s not a hopeless looking Nip behind the counter I don’t bother

[Anonymous No.12618290]

>>12618265
Supermarket sushi is just as expensive

[Anonymous No.12618294]

>>12618290
Depends on the market or the sushi place we're talking about.

[Anonymous No.12618298]

>>12618289
I'm a F L O R I D A M A N so I go for Publix sushi most of all, they do a good job.

[Anonymous No.12618320]

>>12618298
It’s pretty much identical anyway, most Fry’s have a bigger selection of sushi though

[Anonymous No.12618321]

>>12618290
No it isn't

[Anonymous No.12618325]

>>12618320
I've never even heard of Fry's. We've got some Trader Joes down here (garbage sushi) some Whole Foods (Good but too expensive) and some at Target (average) but Publix is probably the best for reliable quality, and they custom make shit for free.

[Anonymous No.12618342]

>>12618289
had to move to az from tx and frys is the worst shit ive ever tried. It tastes like it was frozen beforehand and defrosted then covered in mayo. OP the best sushi is from HEB sushiya but you can only get it in texas.

[Anonymous No.12618353]

>>12618342
If I'm ever in Texas I'll have to check that out. Sushi is my favorite food and I love trying different kinds and varieties.

[Anonymous No.12618363]

>Kroger
>$7-$13 for a single roll
>old, rice is bad, only find salmon, tuna, or imitation crab
>everything covered in 10 kinds of sauce and soggy fried onions
>Meijer
>$7-$13 for a single roll
>old, rice is bad, only find salmon, tuna, imitation crab, and eel
>everything covered in 10 kinds of sauce
>Walmart
>lol don't

>An actual sushi place
>$6-$20 for a single roll
>but it's all fresh, dozens of types of fish
>not made by someone who couldn't get a better job than a grocery store sushi counter

It's not cheaper, and it's worse by a lot.

[Anonymous No.12618376]

>>12618363
Man when I go to Publix its got fresh, flavorful rice, excellent spicy mayo and strong sushi flavor, good, tender fish, and always fresh avocado/carrot/whatever the fuck non-fish you put in the sushi roll, its all good. You just have shit places. I've never even heard of Meijer, what state are you in?

[Anonymous No.12618435]

>>12618376
The more you try to defend garbage "sushi" from a grocery store the more I'm convinced you have never had good sushi.
>"excellent mayo"
>carrot
>"strong sushi flavor"
Yeah, confirmed for tastelet dumdum.

[Anonymous No.12618537]

>>12618435
I've had good sushi before man, I've been to the actual restaurants. Overpay all you want dumbass. Sushi isn't some insane groundbreaking flavor thing. Its rice and seaweed with fish and optional sauces. You sound like someone who only drinks artisan glacial rosewater-concentrate infused water from Whole Foods.

[Anonymous No.12618719]

Bento is good. Might just be a leaf brand though I don't know. Just finished a Cali shogun tray.

[Anonymous No.12619027]

>>12618537
/this, artisan anything is the worst meme to ever happen to food. Most ethnic foods are peasant food like pizza and tacos so adding super expensive ingredients actually takes away from the authentic flavor. If you're paying more then $20 a roll you're a retarded hipster paying for meme experience

[Anonymous No.12619057]

>>12619027
I don't pay more than 10 usually because every wednesday Publix has a 5 dollar deal for all the sushi. Its awesome because the sushi is good shit.

[Anonymous No.12619067]

>>12618265
B U F F E T S U S H I

[Anonymous No.12619077]

>>12619067
Looks good, but the mass production makes me concerned of the quality.

[Anonymous No.12619079]

>>12618265
I make my own. Grilling the eel on the George Foreman is awesome.

[Anonymous No.12619105]

>>12618321
It is in cucknada where I live.

[Anonymous No.12619121]

>>12619067
there was a sushi place run by some fresh off the boats that was all you can eat but you had to order a specific number and for ever piece you didn't eat they'd charge you like $4 so you learned real quick to order exactly how much you actually wanted. best sushi i've ever had though, super worth the gamble.

once showed up at their place a 9pm not realizing they closed at 8pm but we had a party of 8 so they opened up shop for us and they straight up only spoke two words of English "yes" and "no' but they could make a fucken decent roll. We were drunk and rowdy AF, i think we left a $50 tip just for opening up after hours and putting up with us

[Anonymous No.12619132]

Sam's Club actually has dope sushi.

[Anonymous No.12619155]

>>12618265
Rema 1000 by far

[Anonymous No.12619581]

>>12619067
who has ate the most sushi bites at one of these buffets? My own record is 44. Just straight up halved the poor lady's dinner preparation right before 5pm in like 15 minutes. I didn't eat anything else while I was there and had a tough time driving back home.

[Anonymous No.12619625]

>>12618265
I love Sushi but if you want parasites and tape worms living inside you then eating it is the way to go..

[Anonymous No.12619670]

>>12618265
My sushi place does a 3 roll lunch with soup and for $12. Even the cheapest roll at the grocery is $6 so I don't ever bother.

[Anonymous No.12619708]

>>12618290
waaaaayyyy more, just go to an all you can eat for like 18 dollars

[Anonymous No.12619710]

>>12619105
You have no one but yourself to blame for living there

[Anonymous No.12619741]

>>12619670
>My sushi place does a 3 roll lunch with soup and for $12.
And what?
AND WHAT??

[Anonymous No.12619755]

>>12618265
>be me
>work at sushi restaurant
>go to grocery store after shift
>grocery store sushi is more expensive than the stuff we make fresh at the restaurant
>never buying grocery store sushi, ever

[Anonymous No.12619779]

>>12618265
Whole foods.

[Anonymous No.12621145]

Wegmans sushi is god tier but if you live close enough to a Wegmans to get any, you already know this

[Anonymous No.12621155]

>>12618290
this t b h

[Anonymous No.12621169]

Fuck supermarket sushi. I go to the Korean market and get kimbap

[Anonymous No.12621204]

>>12619121
>all you can eat but you had to order a specific number

...wat?

[Anonymous No.12621945]

>>12618325
Frys is Kroger
>>12618342
Some Frys have cardboard sushi, others have the hopeless chinky chef as mentioned previously makin* some good rolls

[Anonymous No.12621976]

>>12618363
More like $2 - $16 at a real sushi place, veg rolls are really cheap for them to make

[Anonymous No.12621986]

>Weird fucking rolls
>Sushi

What the fuck

[Anonymous No.12621991]

>>12621986
Fuck off weeb.

[Anonymous No.12622281]

>>12621204
it was $17.95 and you could get as much as you wanted but they made it up fresh for you and if you ordered like an idiot and said 40 pieces when you could only eat 15 well they charged you for every piece you didn't eat. Also no sharing with other people at your table, like i said they were fresh off the boat and strict AF but the food was on point and $17 for a feast was not a bad deal considering the quality and service.

[Anonymous No.12623055]

>>12622281
no sharing lmao. God you gotta love fucking jap jews

[Anonymous No.12623136]

>>12623055
they literally had their kids working there, 7yo busing tables lmao. But the food good and the kitchen was spotless clean which is something i care about when dealing with foreigners. I don't know what the roll is called but they would do a quick pan fry to make the outside warm crispy but but the inside was still cool and it was fucking good

[Anonymous No.12623142]

>>12623136
Sounds good dude, wish I had a place like that nearby.

[Anonymous No.12623162]

>>12618325
And Wednesdays is 5 dollar sushi. They do make slightly smaller portions and less variety, but 5 bucks for 2 pieces of tuna roll, 4 pieces of salmon roll, and one each of tuna and salmon sushi is a great deal and a great lunch.

[Anonymous No.12623165]

>>12623162
Absolutely yea, I feel the same way about Publix

[Anonymous No.12623168]

Banks

[Anonymous No.12623209]

>>12618265
WinCo. They’re not disgustingly Americanized and all covered in mayonnaise like OPs pic thankfully.

[Anonymous No.12623216]

>>12618265
>When you can't afford 10 dollars a roll at a good sushi joint, what supermarket do you go to?
Supermarkets are regional. Seafood freshness is regional, as well. The more powerful a buyer your brand is, the better choices in wholesale seafood, where you either pass on the cost, or your giantness reduces your cost from sheer size of your orders. Therefore, taking a national survey probably does little good. Supermarket sushi is going to have soggy kelp unless they are making it to order.

For people who are continental, real travelers who experience a lot of regions of supermarkets and have some disposable income, ie not Real TravelersTM, there's some value in a survey based upon comparisons.
In Miami, where I'm originally from, local popular sushi group SushiMaki http://sushimaki.com/ stocks an actual sushi bar counter at Whole Foods and makes it fresh all day to order, as well as provides some lunch crowd to the small set of usual WF dining area. This restaurant also stocks the sports stadiums, airports, university canteens and other catering venues around town. Outside of that the highest rated grocery in the Southeastern states, Publix, does a similar sushi counter prep in each store and experiences a happy following.

In the mid-Atlantic, I'd say Wegmans leads the way for quality in sushi takeout and most other takeout for busy exec types or health food convenience people, maybe Harris Teeter is the close 2nd. Trader Joes, ehh, maybe a Fresh Market. Almost all of the time, you're better off getting takeout from the best 2 or 3 restaurants in town instead, the places with the good smoked eel and variety of roe Contrary to your ideology, sushi is a higher priced convenience food in a grocery, and like salad bars by the pound, it isn't usually a cost savings. It's got a food safety timer on it, so the waste of throwing out perishable food that didn't sell is high enough not to give the food away at a normal cost.

[Anonymous No.12623323]

>>12623136
Never heard of anything like that before but it sounds pretty cool. God I'm still loling at the no sharing. I just have the image of the Soup Nazi in my head from Seinfeld. Instead of, 'NO SOUP FOR YOU' - "NO SUSHI FO UUUU"

[Anonymous No.12623331]

>>12618298
>Florida
I'm so sorry.

[Anonymous No.12623354]

>>12623331
We brought this upon ourselves when we colonized this accursed land of swamps, hurricanes, and theme parks.

[Anonymous No.12623361]

>>12623209
japanese love mayonnaise

[Anonymous No.12623365]

why not, cook the fish?
sushi is a Japanese scam.
Japanese are so stupid for eating raw fish, and are too arrogant and proud to admit their cuisine is barbaric and silly. Fish is gross anyway, and raw fish is super gross.
Anyone who eats sushi is a moronic fool.

[Anonymous No.12623374]

>>12623361
Yeah, no. Not on sushi. This is an American thing, and arguing it makes you look like a dumbdumb.

[Anonymous No.12623378]

>>12623374
Joke
--------------
Your head

[Anonymous No.12623383]

>>12623378
>I-I was only pretending to be retarded, anon...

[Anonymous No.12623392]

In case people don't know, all of the Safeway Sushi stands are actually leased spaces that companies like AFC franchises out to small entrepreneurs.

My wife did this before, and it only cost her about $15k for a safeway sushi franchise. AFC provides all the ingredients for a fixed fee and all she has to do is roll sushi and kick back a small percentage of profits.

I don't want to say how profitable these franchises are, but I can say she started with 1 stand 10 years ago and now she has 4 and makes a very comfortable living. She doesn't even roll sushi herself anymore and just hires cheap labor.

IMO, much better than $500k/store for a failing subway franchise.

[Anonymous No.12623457]

>>12623323
They were serious about the sharing thing, you got one warning then they said they would charge you for another plate. We never pushed are luck past the warning because the lady was like a bipolar ninja, super polite but would snap into combat mode and yell from across the restaurant and wave a pack of chopsticks in a very threading manner. We were drunkin teenagers and she was not taking any shit

i've never seen the frying thing anywhere else, it might have just been something the guy came up with, im also not sure how they pulled it off because it made it crispy almost like breading crispy but it was just rice and it was a light fry i didn't get greasy at all. i tried looking it up but i can only find people battering and deep frying and that not the same thing.

[Anonymous No.12623493]

>>12621145
I have never tried wegman's sushi but I've gotten it at Giant before, lots of the stores have $5 sushi wednesdays. The stores that have a contractor/supplier company called hessho make pretty decent stuff, not worth paying normal price for though.

[Anonymous No.12623539]

>>12622281
>>12623136
Did you have one shot to pick your all you can eat quantity or could you keep ordering in smaller intervals?

[Anonymous No.12623568]

>>12618265
I make my own. It’s fun and costs less than shitty grocery store sushi.

[Anonymous No.12623704]

>>12623539
one shot and you needed to what you wanted by name because there were no pics or display, it was all one family in what seem like a hole in the wall but inside was nice. It was in Ft lauderdale FL. i haven't been down there in years so don't know if they're still around

[Anonymous No.12623711]

>>12623539
everything was made fresh

[Anonymous No.12623723]

Winco has decent sushi for what it is
I've tried most other grocery stores in town and it's gas station tier

[Anonymous No.12623759]

>>12623365
Go back to /b/ or /pol/ you have no appreciation for good food.

[Anonymous No.12623762]

>>12623331
If Florida is so bad, why do you yankees move down here to retire?

[Anonymous No.12623805]

>>12623762
because their shit wage slave job pays so much more in the north so come here and can afford to buy a house for like one year salary, which fucks over Floridians because it makes the prices in the housing market inflate we have no legitimate way to earn earn enough to afford a mortgage.

[Anonymous No.12623867]

>>12623805
Also old people and summers that make going outside and going into a sauna indiscernible. Living down here is a curse, the only good part is all the cute little reptiles and wildlife everywhere. I live in a neighborhood and my backyard is a miniature jungle teeming with life and I like to watch it.
Besides that, living here sucks and you'd be better in Cali, genuinely.

[Anonymous No.12624077]

>>12623867
yes, fuck off were full.

[Anonymous No.12624400]

>>12623805
Northern Florida is literally LA, MS or AL, a sewer swamp inhabited by swamp rats. I've never been to southern FL because I avoid NY jews and expatriate Cubans.

[Anonymous No.12624619]

>>12618265
Man any
Walmart
Crest
Target
Trader Joe's
I don't care if it's not as good as restuarant. Slather it in spicy mayo and I'm yours bby

[Anonymous No.12624820]

>>12623457
Is it possible he rolled the outside in cornstarch or something before throwing it in his 5000btu wok for 10 seconds? I know you said you were drunk many years ago but that's all I can come up with. in fact, I'm drinkin now and it sounds like a good idea to me.

[Anonymous No.12624834]

>grab Kroger box of sushi
>the Japanese guy at the sushi counter sees me, makes eye contact and thanks me
>can never go back again

[Anonymous No.12625635]

>>12618298
That sushi brand is also sold in military commissaries, makes me sick every time.

[Anonymous No.12625718]

whole foods nigga how has no one said it
whole fucking foods sushi nigga
if your broke ass can't afford it just steal that shit. remember, you're stealing from jeff bezos, not the workers.

[Anonymous No.12625742]

>>12618265
Kroger sells sushi all sushi rolls for $5 on wednesdays, which is pretty based.

[Anonymous No.12625745]

T&t some asian supermarket best sushi handsdown

[Anonymous No.12626170]

>>12618342
Yup, HEB has the best sushi.

[Anonymous No.12627248]

>>12618265
Whatever you do, don't buy 7/11's sushi...

[Anonymous No.12627363]

>>12619708
Every Wednesday Publix has 5 dollar sushi.

And it's all made by actual Japanese/Asian people. I've literally never seen a Publix that didn't have asian people making the Sushi.