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Lara MMad About Sushi
May 23rd 2006 09:38
This is one little titbit from Japanese culture that has become fully incorporated into mainstream Western cuisine. You can now find a sushi bar in any food court, at the train station or on a street corner. The humble sushi has been embraced as a delicious and nutritious staple for people on the run. It’s quick, healthy and relatively cheap. (Though we’ve recently seen a steady incline from the standard $1.80 to $2.20 in most places, call it inflation if you will)
I’m glad that a Western culture that usually relies on high levels of sugar and artificial flavouring to get off has embraced something delicate and light, with a gentle harmony of flavours. My favourite is the classic raw salmon and avocado roll.
According to Wikipedia, these sushi attempts made the Guiness Book of World Records;
1. January 1992. A 325 kg (715 lb) blue fin tuna sold for $83,500 (almost $257 / kg or $117 / lb) in Tokyo, Japan. The tuna was reduced to 2,400 servings of sushi for wealthy diners at $75 per serving. The estimated takings from this one fish were approximately $180,000. That was the first record for "Most Expensive Fish".
2. October 12, 1997: The longest sushi roll. Six hundred members of the Nikopaka Festa Committee made a kappamaki (cucumber roll) that was 1 km (3,279 ft.) long at Yoshii, Japan
Sushi also has several different incarnations. These include the common sushi vendor, frequently found amongst McDonald’s and Chinese takeaway stores in food courts, as well as sushi trains. These are like small restaurants in which the sushi travels around a central bar on a little conveyer belt. The novel concept is cute, but the servings are always tiny and insubstantial.
Things get a bit wackier than that. Asian food is always carefully displayed with a sense of aesthetic harmony and I guess this is what has inspired some people to use sushi in their designs. I picked up a couple of sushi shaped earrings from a really good Japanese restaurant in Balmain, whose name unfortunately escapes me at present. I also once bought my Dad a ‘runaway sushi’, because I was just impressed with the sheer ingenuity of it. This clever device looks like an innocent piece of sushi yet operates like a wind up car. If you roll it over the table a couple of times to wind it up it will then roll away on little wheels when released. It’s fun for about ten minutes.
Then, if you want to get even racier there is the phenomena of naked sushi, reported to go on in red light districts around the world. In case you haven’t clued in yet, this is exactly what it sounds like. Sushi is served off the body of a naked person, usually an attractive woman. Well, we’ve already established that the Japanese are a bit crazy re: Kobe beef post. I personally think it’s a cool, if slightly unhygienic idea, though I advocate equal opportunity sushi. I’d like to see some more naked men posing as sushi tables in the future.
Doubly tasty.
According to Wikipedia, these sushi attempts made the Guiness Book of World Records;
1. January 1992. A 325 kg (715 lb) blue fin tuna sold for $83,500 (almost $257 / kg or $117 / lb) in Tokyo, Japan. The tuna was reduced to 2,400 servings of sushi for wealthy diners at $75 per serving. The estimated takings from this one fish were approximately $180,000. That was the first record for "Most Expensive Fish".
2. October 12, 1997: The longest sushi roll. Six hundred members of the Nikopaka Festa Committee made a kappamaki (cucumber roll) that was 1 km (3,279 ft.) long at Yoshii, Japan
Things get a bit wackier than that. Asian food is always carefully displayed with a sense of aesthetic harmony and I guess this is what has inspired some people to use sushi in their designs. I picked up a couple of sushi shaped earrings from a really good Japanese restaurant in Balmain, whose name unfortunately escapes me at present. I also once bought my Dad a ‘runaway sushi’, because I was just impressed with the sheer ingenuity of it. This clever device looks like an innocent piece of sushi yet operates like a wind up car. If you roll it over the table a couple of times to wind it up it will then roll away on little wheels when released. It’s fun for about ten minutes.
http://thegreenman.net.au/mt/archives/cat_frivolousness.html
Then, if you want to get even racier there is the phenomena of naked sushi, reported to go on in red light districts around the world. In case you haven’t clued in yet, this is exactly what it sounds like. Sushi is served off the body of a naked person, usually an attractive woman. Well, we’ve already established that the Japanese are a bit crazy re: Kobe beef post. I personally think it’s a cool, if slightly unhygienic idea, though I advocate equal opportunity sushi. I’d like to see some more naked men posing as sushi tables in the future.
Doubly tasty.
http://polyrealism.fotopic.net/c412264.html
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