/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5603757]

These rolls are now being served in every asian restaurant across america. What's the deal with these. Are they authentic Japanese food? Can these still be considered sushi, or should they be called rolls?

I just had them, and I'll be honest. I prefer these rolls over traditional sushi. These fucking things just explode with flavor in your mouth.

[Anonymous No.5603765]

I have no idea what those are. They look like an awesome version of a California Roll.

[Anonymous No.5603772]

It's a super American roll.

Delicious, but more of a supermarket thing for me.

[Anonymous No.5603784]

>>5603765
Well, they call them rolls, california rolls, _____ rolls and everything else in between. Yeah, it's fucking good, but can these be considered a traditional nip dish, or are the origins american like the american pizza we know today?

Discuss.

[Anonymous No.5603814]

>>5603784
That's a super American take on sushi.
Is that really bacon on top?

[Anonymous No.5603815]

This is Japanese food in the western world like Chinese food in the western world.

It ain't authentic, traditional, or anything related to Japan other than the fact that it is called Sushi, has rice and is rolled.

We have them in Chile too.

[Anonymous No.5603817]

I get those every now and again from this really upclass supermarket.

They are pretty good for what they are.

[G8rH8r No.5603825]

>>5603817
The fucking Kroger in my town just added a circular sushi stand/bar. Its weird

[Anonymous No.5603828]

>>5603815
>chile
>western world
nice try third worlder

[Anonymous No.5603829]

>>5603825
same here
I thought about it for a sec
then said fuck that

[Anonymous No.5603833]

Any socal kids eat at this place. Serves up OP's pic and similar shit. Drenched in mayo, fried, baked, greasy food.

[Anonymous No.5603835]

>>5603833
think you forgot the pic

[Anonymous No.5603836]

>>5603833
Forgat pic

[Anonymous No.5603851]

>>5603757
looks delicious to me

[Anonymous No.5603857]

>>5603833


It is what it is. You must admit that some of it does taste good. Besides, you can't expect everyone to appreciate traditional sushi. It's just not for everyone.

Besides, I always get a good laugh when I see some young couple scarfing down their roll making it seem like they've just tried something very adventurous and outside the norm for them.

[Anonymous No.5603860]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-fYp_N9kX4

[Anonymous No.5603871]

>>5603860
get fucked

[Anonymous No.5603874]

>>5603860
What a fucking faggot. Fucking weaboo faggot.

[Anonymous No.5603879]

>>5603860
Holy fuck I want to punch that faggot on the mouth.

[Anonymous No.5603885]

>>5603871
>>5603874
>>5603879


Pro tip: That guy frequents both /jp/ and /a/, and likes to troll /sp/.

[Anonymous No.5603888]

>>5603860
dumbfuck is eating it rice side down, total pleb move

[Anonymous No.5603890]

>>5603885
wait are you talking about me or the guy in the video?

[Anonymous No.5603932]

>>5603857
Yup. Never said it was nasty....just a little strange.
Good drunk food next to dollar tacos.

[Anonymous No.5603942]

>>5603932
dollar tacos are better for the price though

[Anonymous No.5603948]

>>5603942
Speaking of unauthentic Asian mixes and tacos....
KOGI IS KING

[Anonymous No.5604008]

>>5603757
>Are they authentic Japanese food? Can these still be considered sushi
Let's get one thing straight
Sushi, as the modern world now knows it, is quite an American food and "Japanese authenticity" doesn't mean shit

Any roll with rice on the outside is an American roll. Most complex rolls or rolls with avocado are American. More precisely, an American-Japanese fusion.
If you want to be a hipster faggot, not even any sushi with salmon should be considered authentic, as Salmon isn't native to Japan and is more of a recent thing and must be imported.
You should only care about these things if you are a stuck up faggot

[Anonymous No.5604009]

>>5603814
It's probably fried salmon skin

[Anonymous No.5604016]

>>5603948
>korean
>lives in LA
>been to LA fuck tons of times to see korean relatives
>have never seen or eaten from this truck
What the fuck, do they just never stop by KTown?

[Anonymous No.5604017]

>>5604016
scratch that, I mean I live close-ish to LA, like 30 minute drive to downtown without traffic

[Anonymous No.5604020]

>>5603836
niko niko?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veh_Wvvtw8U

[Anonymous No.5604024]

>>5603757
The California roll, which means a roll with rice on the outside, was invented by a Japanese chef living in the US. It's Japanese food fit for a western palate.

[Anonymous No.5604034]

they obviously aren't authentic but sometimes the elaborate rolls are very tasty, and I'm even pretty snobby

I hate california rolls because they taste like nothing, not because they aren't "authentic" although I can obviously recognize that

[Anonymous No.5604035]

>>5604017

they go to ktown, they have like 8 trucks

[Anonymous No.5604037]

>>5604024

>The California roll, which means a roll with rice on the outside

Really? In america it just means a roll with avocado, surimi, and cucumber. Are no rolls in japan (if you guys even eat anything other than nigiri) done like that?

[Anonymous No.5604041]

i enjoy the rolls, but i prefer nigiri. yes the rolls are flavorful, but after the first one it's just like... all of the flavors just mesh together, there's too much there. it becomes uninteresting. kinda makes you want to just scarf down the little flavor bombs and ultimately, that's never truly enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.5604064]

authentic? no. good? yes. so who gives a fuck.

[Anonymous No.5604105]

>>5603871
>>5603874
>>5603879
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.5604542]

>>5603757
If giant elaborate rolls with shit like fried stuff and mango are wrong, then I hope I'm never right.

[Anonymous No.5604569]

>>5603828
>being stupid

[Anonymous No.5604588]

>>5603860

This kid is gay and obviously needs to learn to handle food with chopsticks.

I use green top soy sauce and put a little wasabi in and meticulously combine it with the sauce until its uniformly the same color with no chunks because of my Autism.

[Anonymous No.5604598]

>>5604588
Eating Sushi with your hands is only done in some parts in Japan. But most of that stuff is done to cover up lack of skills and quality of ingredients. Most people here wouldn't know what good nori taste like or rice that is made the right way or when a piece of fish is actually good. Most of the people on here think fresh fish makes the best sushi.

[Anonymous No.5604599]

>>5603757
also all rolls for the most part are riffs on mayo, salt and sugar. It covers up the shit tier nori they use and the over cooked rice they use.

[Anonymous No.5604606]

>>5604542
too be honest at 100 yen sushi places you can get steak on top of sushi rice. Also the Japanese now eat raw salmon. The farm raised stuff is not ridden with parasites like the line caught stuff and is now in fact the number 1 sushi pick in Japan.

[Anonymous No.5604625]

>>5603784
iirc maki (rolls) were "invented" in cali and new york by slightly indigenized first-gen immigrant sushi chefs

they are certainly a part of japanese cuisine in japan though

[Anonymous No.5604658]

>>5603757
>I prefer these rolls over traditional sushi. These fucking things just explode with flavor in your mouth.
That is because they were developed in America to cater to the American taste, where we like things exploding in our mouths.
>>5604008
>You should only care about these things if you are a stuck up faggot
That's a little fucked up. You may enjoy the Americanized versions of Japanese, Italian or Chinese, yet still sometimes want the less over the top regional cooking that inspired them. When I think sushi I think of incredibly subtle flavors presented simply - basically the opposite of OP's pic. I don't think drawing a distinction between the two makes someone a faggot. That's like saying there's not much distinction between Italian and Italian-American food.
>>5604024
>The California roll, which means a roll with rice on the outside, was invented by a Japanese chef living in the US. It's Japanese food fit for a western palate.
And there are restaurants in Japan that do Western food adjusted for the Japanese palate. And many of us would look in horror at the pasta sauce made from ketchup served at such places, just like many Japanese are horrified by California rolls.
>>5604041
>yes the rolls are flavorful, but after the first one it's just like... all of the flavors just mesh together, there's too much there. it becomes uninteresting.
Just like fast food and the shit Guy Fieri does. It's about packing as much flavor into the first bite instead of taking you on a journey of flavors over the course of the meal. It does get boring really quickly, but it seems most people stop paying attention to the taste of their food after the first bite or two.

[Anonymous No.5604694]

>>5604658
and real japanese food would be a waste on an american pallet.

[Anonymous No.5604745]

>>5604658
There are no Japanese who are horrified by the California roll. Most people actually like it alot. But the first thing out of their mouth is that it isn't sushi.

[Anonymous No.5604765]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc6v8IUe_0g

[Anonymous No.5604767]

take a look at the 'western' dishes in the food pics from japan thread
that's what western japanese food looks like to japanese people

[Anonymous No.5604826]

>>5604694
>eal japanese food would be a waste on an american pallet.
Depends on the American. Those of us who have had Japanese friends and coworkers over the years, lived near Japanese American neighborhoods and have traveled to Japan might not appreciate the most subtle nuances, but it isn't exactly rocket science. It's not impenetrable to someone who wasn't raised in that culture will never comprehend. But there is a different set of aesthetics. Same is true for Chinese food.
>>5604745
>it isn't sushi.
That's what I meant - they'd be horrified that such rolls would be considered sushi. Hell, I've got no issues with the kooky shit the Japanese do to Italian food, but by the time they're done with it the stuff sure as fuck isn't Italian anymore.

[Anonymous No.5604908]

>>5603833
>>5603836

Socal kid here, niko niko is OK. There are many places with better quality and cheaper prices IMO. Most of the restaurants in my area are mostly japanese/sushi bar oriented and niko niko isn't in my top 5 but I would eat there and probably enjoy if i had to

[Anonymous No.5604927]

>>5604658

this dude definitely 'bates to Jiro Dreams of Sushi.

[Anonymous No.5604934]

>>5604826
>That's what I meant - they'd be horrified that such rolls would be considered sushi.
No they wouldn't, I don't think you know what horrified means

[Anonymous No.5604940]

Ken-Sama has spoken. Arigato, Ken-Sama. I am most hoping your studies at a prestigious Tokyo high school are going well. <bows deeply>

[Anonymous No.5604981]

It's American/Wsternized sushi. Nothing like the original but good in its own way.

I think my favourites of those tend to be the tempura shrimp with mango and avocado and California rolls. Also a local sushi bar has this amazing crab roll with asparagus, soft shell crabmeat and a light mayo sauce on top, holy shit.

[Anonymous No.5605027]

>>5604658
You're full of shit. Japanese people love California Rolls. It's on the menu in the town in Japan that I'm living in. And I'm not even from one of the larger cities. Always a few plates of California roll circulating in the conveyer belt sushi place I frequent. ALWAYS.

[Anonymous No.5605040]

>>5605027

[Anonymous No.5605044]

>>5603814
>>5604009
It's crunchy onion things.

[Anonymous No.5605062]

>>5605040
You got me.

[Anonymous No.5605086]

>>5603860
Surprised the chef didn't say, "Sorry, Japanese only"

[Anonymous No.5605182]

Stop making me want rolls <3 No they are not traditional either! Most places list them as rolls anyway.
Honestly living in California I can say I have in fact had both bad sushi and bad rolls. I prefer rolls over traditional sushi excluding anything with squid or octopus. Having lived all over the place in Califonria I now know a few places that are honestly the best I have ever had. My favorite restaurant has one called a Volcano roll and it is a California roll w/salmon on top baked. If I have not been to a sushi restaurant I get the California roll first. It is good way to test a place. Well have a good one and enjoy them rolls >//<

[Anonymous No.5605201]

My thoughts on sushi:

I had heard the same "don't dip sushi/sashimi in soy sauce." Then, in "Jiro Dreams of Sushi", and the sushi chefs are tasting sashimi and dipping it in soy. WTF.

Personally, I don't care for the rolls with all the sauces and extras. I like simple flavors, and I like sashimi. My story, in greentext:

> Live in plantation country, Louisiana
> Chain Japanese/sushi restaurant in town
> Most times, see people eating said saucy sushi
> DGAF, and order sashimi plate
> One day, decide to eat lunch there
> Sit at sushi bar
> Order some sashimi
> Chef doesn't say much, goes about cutting up whole fresh fish while I eat
> Continuously offers me slices of freshly sliced sashimi on the house
> No words where passed between us
> BOSS

[Anonymous No.5605202]

>>5605027
>on the menu in japan
>white guy from /ck/ eats there
>probably other gaijin eat there
HMMM....

[Anonymous No.5605207]

>>5605201
you dip sashimi not sushi

[Anonymous No.5605212]

>>5605207

Well that clears it up then.

[Anonymous No.5605213]

>>5605201
the do this shit all the time if you know what you are talking about and dont order shit items

[Anonymous No.5605219]

best part of 'sushi'
is the fake wasabe stuff, the soy sauce, the crispy deep fried tempura stuff, the spicy mayonnaise and the creamy avocado

not one fuck given what some japanese or weeaboo authenticity

[Anonymous No.5605221]

>>5605207

Well that clears it up then.

>>5605213
I know, and it's happened a bit before, but never to such an extent. I probably ate about 100 dollars worth of sashimi, and only paid for my 15 dollar meal. I left a nice tip.

[Anonymous No.5605230]

>>5603757
Its as Japanese as Tempura

And in that sense, its actually Dutch.

[Anonymous No.5605232]

>>5605221
> I left a nice tip.
yup always leave a sushi chef a nice tip when you are getting free shit on place I go to makes them share tips so i make my chef put the $ directly in his pocket and not the jar,

[Anonymous No.5605252]

>>5605230
>Dutch

Didn't know that's what Portuguese Jesuit missionaries were called back then.

[Anonymous No.5605259]

>>5605252
My mistake

[Anonymous No.5605269]

>>5605202
There are sushi restaurants in Japan which specialize in serving Americanized sushi. Believe it or not, it's not just Americans who enjoy eating quaint foreign novelties. California rolls and similar foods are foreign enough to interest japs but not foreign enough to cause hesitation. So they like California rolls.

[Anonymous No.5605275]

I was sitting at a sushi bar last week and the chef commented on my lack of Wasabi soy sauce paste.

Does anyone else hate dipping their sushi in this? All of my friends do it and I can't understand why. It covers up the flavor of the sushi.

[Anonymous No.5605293]

>>5605275
A tiny bit is good on some things.

I agree though, most of the time Wasabi is completely detrimental.

[Anonymous No.5605294]

>>5605275
I never dip my sushi in anything. I will eat some wasabi on its own though because I like the taste.

I don't know anything about sushi culture or whatever, that's just what I do. I generally don't like dipping things in sauce unless they are explicitly meant to be dipped and have little flavor otherwise.

[Anonymous No.5605345]

>mfw people order crunchy sushi
>people order "american style" sushi
>choosing that over rainbow roll

[Anonymous No.5605369]

>>5605345
>Any roll with Avocado

[Anonymous No.5605481]

>>5605369
Actually I feel the same way
I sometimes pick the avocado off if I want to order a variety.
My go to is Tuna Roll with cucumber though.

[Anonymous No.5605537]

>>5605202
ITT: Flawless Logic

[Anonymous No.5605543]

>>5605219
So you like fat and salt!

[Anonymous No.5605611]

Would just like to point out Koreans have been bastardizing sushi way before Americans. Of course, no one would dare criticize any country's cooking besides America's (and sometimes Australia), oh no.

[Anonymous No.5605618]

>>5605040
That blutooth headset is awesome. It teleports from one side of the head to the other. I want one.

[Anonymous No.5605625]

>>5605618
check again, it doesnt

[Anonymous No.5605665]

>>5605618
Except it doesn't.

[Anonymous No.5605699]

>>5603757
looks like grilled chicken and avocado with spicy mayo

this will probably be served at many izakaya in japan

[Anonymous No.5605705]

>>5605665
Right side. Then left side.

[Anonymous No.5605711]

>>5603757
I just noticed is that fucking bacon? I hate this bacon on everything fad.

[Anonymous No.5605713]

>>5605705
seen from the front then from behind, are you that stupid?

[Anonymous No.5605762]

Anyone stick to conveyor belt sushi places because you don't want to interact with the chef?

[Anonymous No.5605771]

>>5605762
no

are you socially awkward?

[Anonymous No.5605775]

>>5605771
I just find that it distracts me from my meal too much.

[Anonymous No.5605783]

>>5605775
if you're ordering omakase the chef should be very busy preparing the meal for his customers and only interacting minimally with you.

if you're sitting at the bar because you're alone then they might consider it rude of themselves not to speak with you.

if they have tables they won't be offended if you sit at one.

it sounds like you go for sushi alone most of the time. bring a friend; sit at a table.

[Anonymous No.5605807]

>>5605783
Oh god, bad advice. Unless you're an autist: sit at the sushi bar. Always, always always sit at the bar.

The only time I'd sit at a table would be if I knew I was not getting sushi, but rather katsu or the like, or if I was with a larger group of people.

If you are an autist (a real one, not the catchall insult the word has become on teh 4chinz), my condolences. Sucks to be you.

[Anonymous No.5605814]

>>5605807
buddy, i'm being polite to this guy because he's clearly socially awkward. i'm trying to get him to feel comfortable eating his meal alone in a sushi bar. he's asking anonymous strangers on the fucking internet about trying not to talk to the sushi chef because it distracts him. now that you've blown any possibility of tactfully integrating him into a normal social behavior i guess just go ahead and shit on him.

[Anonymous No.5605861]

>not strictly ordering a dynamite roll and 2 pieces of yellow-fin tuna sashimi

[Anonymous No.5606194]

>>5605269

this always somehow eludes weeblords trying to defend honoraburr purity of nippon curturr. japanese people enjoy foreign novelties the same way we do; in fact, it's an important way for japanese culture to interface with the world. that and stereotypes. hilarious, hilarious, stereotypes.

[Anonymous No.5606542]

>>5606194
This is why discussions of "authenticity" are idiotic. People get hung up on the narrative of their meals, thinking it somehow ties them to how "real" Japanese people (or Mexican, or Chinese, etc.) eat, when in reality if they wanted to eat like a real japanese person they'd go to McDonald's or a fucking mayonnaise restaurant.

[Anonymous No.5608442]

>>5605294
Sushi is meant to be dipped in soy sauce

[Anonymous No.5608445]

>>5608442
sashimi is sushi isnt, sushi is preseasoned

[Anonymous No.5608481]

>>5603757
I hate to admit it too, but I prefer these rolls over standard sushi anyday. Don't get me wrong, I love good old tuna or salmon sashimi, but rolls are so gangster. I usually hide the fact that I love rolls when at a sushi place with new people. When someone hints they like rolls I fire away though. I think my favorite is a tornado roll. The way my favorite place makes it is with a think slice of fresh jalapeno on top of each piece.

If I don't get a roll I get an eel roll, yellow tail and tuna. I'm a plebeian.

[Anonymous No.5608483]

I was at a sushi bar with my dad, being boring and getting Saba and tuna sashimi when he randomly ordered "spider maki". I contemptuous continued eating, thinking he had made a terrible mistake and he was going to get some flashy combination of guff. He got tempura softshell crab in a roll. It was glorious and I was converted.

[Anonymous No.5608491]

theyre japanese food like hamburger is german food
invented by first-gen immigrants and then modified a lot regionally and to fit local taste

[Anonymous No.5608493]

>Breaded sushi
>Breaded anything but porkchops and chicken breast

[Anonymous No.5608503]

>>5608493
no fried chicken thighs, country fried steak, fried okra, fried fish, fried oysters

get fucked homo

[Anonymous No.5608504]

>>5608503
Yeah those are all cooked in better ways.

[Anonymous No.5608513]

>>5605040
Reminded me of the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld...

[Anonymous No.5608521]

>>5608504
>hurr theres only one ways to cook a foods

[Anonymous No.5608523]

>>5608521
You CAN cook things in certain ways.

Yes, you can deep fry a steak and eat it, but you're ruining it. Its like eating a well-done BBQ steak.

[Anonymous No.5608530]

>>5608523
youre a child who cant into food or a decent analogy

[Anonymous No.5608532]

>>5608530
You're a fag and you have shit taste.

[Anonymous No.5608539]

>>5608532
No and no, sorry mate, fried chicken thighs are objectively better than fried breast.

[Anonymous No.5608540]

>>5603757
I like the rolls for what they are, tasty and spicy or like my fave, Dragon Eel, sweet, creamy and interesting but when I want sashimi, I get a good piece of fish from a place that sells it and cut it myself (not as pretty but every bit as tasty. Somewhere in between is local tuna or salmon nigiri that tastes very mild. I like it all but for different reasons.

[Anonymous No.5608543]

>>5603860
This video makes me mad. Why the fuck do you care how I eat my food?

I mean, I personally don't do the mix-wasabi-into-soy thing but if someone does it and enjoys the sushi afterward, so what?

[Anonymous No.5608548]

>>5608539
>Fried breast
>Not grilled breast

[Anonymous No.5608550]

>>5608548
Keep up with the convo Sperg Ferguson

[Anonymous No.5608552]

>>5608550
You're the person who contradicted himself
>>5608539
>>5608521

[Anonymous No.5608553]

>>5608552
sure didnt mate. All i said was fried breast wasnt as good as fried thigh not that frying was the only way to cook a thigh. Maybe go on Amazon and order Hooked on Phonics?

[Anonymous No.5608560]

>>5608553
>Objectively

[Anonymous No.5608565]

>>5608560
Objectively better than breast, not the best or only way to cook a thigh, again get some help with that terrible comprehension.

[Anonymous No.5608566]

>>5608565
>Objective metrics that determine quality existing implies that one is best

[Anonymous No.5608568]

>>5608566
>not knowing the difference

[Anonymous No.5608573]

>>5608568
Do you know what objective means?

I was being a dick on purpose, but you seem to not actually know the difference between objective and subjective.

[Anonymous No.5608585]

>>5608573
except there is a difference in saying one method of cooking is better than the other and saying one cut of meat is better prepared a certain way than another. Once again your reading comprehension is terrible.

You are the weakest link, Goodbye.

[Anonymous No.5608590]

>>5608585
What do you think I was arguing originally you fucking moron?

>>5608493

I never said deep frying was worse than pan frying ceterus paribus

[Anonymous No.5608594]

>>5608445
Then why the fuck does every sushi restaurant in Japan put soy sauce on the table, have a tiny sushi sized plates for the soy sauce, and every grocery store in country include soy sauce packets when you buy sushi? Stop saying your bullshit

[Anonymous No.5608603]

>>5608445
>Nigiri
>Seasoned

The best you can say is that its "Seasoned" with sugar water or sugary rice.

[Anonymous No.5608608]

>>5608594
You forgot to mention that it also taste better when you dip it in sushi, hence why normal people dip it in soy sauce.

[Anonymous No.5608669]

How do I eat Tamaki properly?

[Anonymous No.5608674]

>>5608669
I just put it in pointy side first

[Anonymous No.5608688]

>>5608669
Soy sauce in a dish

[Anonymous No.5608698]

>>5608674
Really?

I always ate it the other way because you soaked all the rice in one tip

[Anonymous No.5608732]

No, it's not actually japanese since it actually has flavor, stupid roundeye.

[Anonymous No.5608743]

>>5608732
What is the Japanese insult of whitey?

I'd imagine they have one

[Anonymous No.5608757]

>>5608743
Gaijin, iirc. I really don't bother reading up on them. They are genocidal barbarians and their food is just bland versions of dishes they swiped from better countries. How terrible do you have to be to accomplish what even the british cannot: They managed to fuck up curry.

[Anonymous No.5608769]

>>5605611
Kimbap: an evolution on sushi which is likely, in turn, an evolution on the korean kim ssam.

Also, it tastes amazing.

[Anonymous No.5608774]

Meanwhile, in Canada:
>all the ingredients of those garish dragon rolls piled up on a "crust" of fried rice

Sushi Pizza!

[Anonymous No.5608776]

>>5608774
Yeah, its fucking gross

Most good places won't put it on the menu.

I love it here though, cheap as fuck AYCE with fresh ingredients

[Anonymous No.5608777]

>>5608442
>>5608445

another volley by the authenticity brigade?

calm down weeblords. you can eat it how you like it.

>>5608757
>implying kareraisu isn't a flavorful comfort food anybody would enjoy

[Anonymous No.5608784]

My dad went to San Francisco and got something called a sushi rito

A Sushi Burrito. Said it was good. Can anyone confirm?

[Anonymous No.5608800]

>>5608777
Nope, it's a diarrhetic abomination that reminds me of how much better the Thai, Indians, and Mauritians are at making curry. Thanks for playing, weeb defense force. Looking foward to reaming your chrysanthemum some more (see what i did there?)

[Anonymous No.5608809]

>>5608784
It was terrible. How do I know? because a californian made it.

[Anonymous No.5608813]

>>5608809
But san fran has asians

[Anonymous No.5608820]

>>5608800
i don't think you understand

[Anonymous No.5608825]

>>5608784

I've had it, it's pretty good. I'm really snobby about food if it represents itself as traditional but unlike a lot of similar people I don't mind "fusion" cuisine.

[Anonymous No.5608833]

>>5608825
On a side note, fruit infusion beer is fucking disgusting

[Anonymous No.5608841]

>>5608784
It just looks like a Maki roll with one end closed

[Anonymous No.5608852]

>>5608813
California ruins everything it touches. Don't believe me? Head up to Portland or Seattle some time. The damage is brutal...

[Anonymous No.5608872]

>>5608852
cali burrito is pretty good

[Anonymous No.5608886]

>>5608852
washington doesnt touch cali though

[Anonymous No.5608892]

I do love some of the crazy rolls they come up with, especially ones drenched in eel sauce. That being said I prefer simple nigiri, and i lightly dip that shit into my wasabi soy sauce paste. Anyone calling that shit wrong is an autist. Pre seasoned or it tastes even better with just a dab of wasabi soy sauce mix. In b4 hipster fags say i can't into subtle fish flavors or i go to crap restaurants.

[Anonymous No.5609291]

>>5608594
inb4 ketchup on steak

[Anonymous No.5609360]

my favorite roll is the mango salmon roll

[Anonymous No.5609381]

>>5608892
>massacring your dish
>calling someone autistic for calling you out

[Anonymous No.5609392]

>>5603871
>>5603874
>>5603879
>>5604588
He's annoying but he is kinda right. But hey, eat however you want.

[Anonymous No.5609412]

>>5605182
>Volcano
Yuraku?

[Anonymous No.5609452]

>>5608540

I like eel a lot too. It has good flavor and eel sauce is nice and sweet and a good accent. I got to a local shop and get just eel and a bowl of rice with some tempura and I would take that as my last meal any day.

[Anonymous No.5609640]

>>5608669
Hold and bite it hard, about 3 bites, always get nori stuck in my teeth. I don't like pre-rolled temaki like you pictured, I'll just request a roll made with same ingredients. I like the kind of temaki you make at the table with smaller squares of a type of crispy nori and eat in 2 bites.

[Anonymous No.5609648]

>>5609452
Chirashizushi made with eel, avocado and salmon is also good, easy on the eel sauce so it's a sweet bite between fresh tastes. Good stuff! I like a tiny bit of eel sauce drizzled on thin slices of rare steak too, cold on a salad.

[Anonymous No.5609658]

>>5603757
We just call them Nori rolls at this point. I've made rolls at home with a variety of mundane cooked ingredients to convince people it's more about the fresh taste and texture of the rice than any one magical ingredient ( or to bust the dreaded 'raw fish is sushi' misconception). I like to see inventive rolls. No, I don't consider the dish authentic Japanese, more just an inspired fusion using a technique or ingredient, like many other borrowed and adapted dishes.

[syn No.5609659]

>>5603871
>>5603874
>>5603879
Yeah, but he's mostly right. It's kind of painful watching people east it wrong.

[syn No.5609667]

>>5608594
Well, there are steakhouses in the us with bottles of a1 on the table, too

[Anonymous No.5609679]

>>5604008
10/10 you get it

[Anonymous No.5610060]

>>5609667
I keep forgetting white people hate flavor and can only handle salt and pepper.

[Anonymous No.5610070]

>>5605275
>wasabi soy sauce paste

this is an actual thing?

This is something my parents do and I can't stand it. They take the wasabi, mix it with soy sauce and make some saucy paste with a color that can only be described as baby shit.

I'm pretty sure it's one of the 'rules of sushi' that you don't do too.

[Anonymous No.5611632]

>>5609412
No it's Zen Sushi in Lake Forest :/ But now I have to try that place someday.

[Anonymous No.5611644]

>>5610060
which is why japanese food is the same four, bland flavors reconfigured endlessly? Get over yourself, you fucking weeb.

[Anonymous No.5611867]

>>5608669
>tamaki
>ta maki
>a maki you eat with your tas