Sashimi or Sushi Rolls

[Buddah]

What is the preference here for those sushi lovers out there. A lot of people who never experienced a good sushi roll is missing out. I personally love the inside-out rolls (rice on the outside, seaweed inside), especially with spicy japanese mayo mixed inside. Soak it in soy sauce mixed with lots of wasabi and mmmmmm good!

Now I can enjoy some great sashimi too, but the simpleness leaves me wanting that mixed group of flavors from the bite of the roll. The crunch of the spider roll for me is an extra mind pleasure and then when the wasabi hits the forehead/nasal cavity and drifts away magically, the buzz is like no other.

So what are your preferences? Any special meals when you get your sushi or sashimi?

[imaguitargod]

I love both. Give me a good Dragon Roll anytime of the week....or day...

[stillmanz]

weres buddahs ass avitar gone god damn it?... only reason I opened the thread.....


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sad but true lol

yeah sushis great....

whatever...

[rabbit]

I like mine simple. Just a nice slice of salmon over some rice. Then I dip it in soysauce mixed with wasabi....YUM!!!!

[Omri]

I like my sushi simple. maki with salmon, avocado and wasabi. nigiri with salmon.
Obviously a good salmon sashimi is good, too.
Yep... I really like salmon. :P

[imaguitargod]

weres buddahs ass avitar gone god damn it?... only reason I opened the thread.....


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sad but true lol
Ya, but a good ToeJam and Earl referance always brings a smile to my face.

[cheezydemon]

Spicy tuna is my favorite! I love it all though. Good fresh salmon sashimi with just a little lemon is awesome.

Only thing I won't try again is the UNI...(blech!)

I am not a huge fan of eel, but it is just the chewy texture I mind.

[imaguitargod]

I am not a huge fan of eel, but it is just the chewy texture I mind.
I LOVE EEL!!!!!! Freshwater eel is the best! I can't get enough of it.

[ring sting]

I really like tuna sashimi. Much better than Salmon. Sushi, if done correctly, is great! We have lots of pre made quick sushi bars that use cooked tuna! Bleahhh!

RS

PS Wasabi rocks!

[Buddah]

weres buddahs ass avitar gone god damn it?... only reason I opened the thread.....


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sad but true lol

yeah sushis great....

whatever...

Sorry the powers that be said there were complaints so it was removed and I replaced with my favorite video game icon, Earl.

I am not into the uni either, but not into the eel as well. There is a place on Long Island where I grew up that makes some great sushi rolls. Rainbow rolls, dragon rolls, spider rolls, but their spicy tuna, salmon, yellowtail are great. My favorite is a simple roll they call the Onion roll, which has crab, onions, and spicy mayo. Everyone I had try it, went gaga over how it melts in your mouth. The wasabi and soy sauce soak into it so well for that great horseradish hit I love so much. They also make a low carb roll on demand, that uses thin slices of cucumber instead of rice to hold it all together. Ever on Long Island, look for Ozumo.

[cheezydemon]

TUNA is it. Crab is my favorite cooked meat. Cooked tuna sucks. But raw??? Oh holy hell. Nothing better than a rare tuna steak or some tuna sushi or sashimi.

The other red meat is right! No other meat than tuna and beef go so easilly from red delicious to greyish and chewy when over cooked or cooked at all.

I read an article recently about how tuna loses a lot of it's life prolonging nutrients when cooked. Sad.

Like seeing some poor sap oreder filet mignon mid well.

[rabbit]

TUNA is it. Crab is my favorite cooked meat. Cooked tuna sucks. But raw??? Oh holy hell. Nothing better than a rare tuna steak or some tuna sushi or sashimi.

The other red meat is right! No other meat than tuna and beef go so easilly from red delicious to greyish and chewy when over cooked or cooked at all.

I read an article recently about how tuna loses a lot of it's life prolonging nutrients when cooked. Sad.

Like seeing some poor sap oreder filet mignon mid well.

My steaks still moo when I order them...My wife was actually grossed out when she was watching me eat my steak the other day:shocked::lol:. Flip-flip done. MOOOOOO........YUM!!!:D

[DevilDuck]

Surf Clams and Mackerel.

There's an "all you can eat" sushi place here (yeah, sushi in New Mexico doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's good) $19.95 for dinner. I get my $19.95 worth, let me tell you!!!

Octopus, yellow fin, Toro (fatty tuna), New Mexico roll (has jalapeños in it)......its all good!

[Sickmont]

My steaks still moo when I order them...My wife was actually grossed out when she was watching me eat my steak the other day:shocked::lol:. Flip-flip done. MOOOOOO........YUM!!!:D

I always say bring me a knife and a live cow....i'll cut off what i want to eat and ride the rest home....

[ImpyChick]

I loooove me some sushi. I don't eat it near enough. I'm a roll girl, myself. I love all the different flavors & textures. That being said, I do love albacore tataki which is served sashimi style.

One of my favorite rolls is one I get from a place here in Kansas City, Kona Grill. It's called the Sunshine Roll. Spicy salmon & cucumber wrapped in seaweed & rice, topped with more fresh salmon & thinly sliced lemon. Dip it in soy sauce & wasabi...oooh mama.

Man, now I'm craving sushi.

[westcoastangler]

I prefer sashimi but there is a place in San Diego called Sushi Ono and a chef named Robin that makes the most incredible spicy scallop rolls.

As far as Tuna goes my preferences are Bluefin, Albacore, Bigeye and Yellowfin but Yellowfin is usually better when seared.

One great thing to try is some yellowtail with a couple of slices of fresh jalapeno on them.

[klyth]

I think I speak for a number of people who have tried maki and have been disgusted, because we tried the most popular rolls: California and Philidelphia. Both still bother me. I don't want cream cheese in my sushi, and I don't want avacado in my sushi! I don't want my sushi to be mush, I want it to have some texture, some consistency! I WANT ROOM SERVICE!!!!

Anyway, my favorite sushi of all time is mutsu sashimi. But I'll try everything. Uni is fantastic, toro temaki is also one of my favorites.

Typically I'll go to my favorite sushi bar, tell the chef to not go above $80 dollars, and to make me whatever he'd like, as long as it's not on the menu. That usually ends up being an 8-10 course dinner and desert for two.

When I make sushi at home I just do maki rolls. I'm no chef, so I do what's easy.

[Buddah]

I think I speak for a number of people who have tried maki and have been disgusted, because we tried the most popular rolls: California and Philidelphia. Both still bother me. I don't want cream cheese in my sushi, and I don't want avacado in my sushi! I don't want my sushi to be mush, I want it to have some texture, some consistency! I WANT ROOM SERVICE!!!!

Anyway, my favorite sushi of all time is mutsu sashimi. But I'll try everything. Uni is fantastic, toro temaki is also one of my favorites.

Typically I'll go to my favorite sushi bar, tell the chef to not go above $80 dollars, and to make me whatever he'd like, as long as it's not on the menu. That usually ends up being an 8-10 course dinner and desert for two.

When I make sushi at home I just do maki rolls. I'm no chef, so I do what's easy.

I absolutely detest cream cheese in my sushi too, but japanese mayo is another story for me. If it doesn't have the spicy mayo, I usually don't order it.

[GrumpyBear]

i never even heard of philadelphia rolls until recently when i saw sushi at the grocery store.
i like rainbow dragon rolls, best of both worlds (and they'll ussually shape it like a dragon with a little wasabi head :) )
last week i was visitin' my sister and we went to a sushi place we never tried before, i got 'sushi pizza' which was a crispy rice crust with chopped tuna mixed with spicy mayo on top (they had salmon and others too, but i like the tuna...) i usually shy away from anything involving mayo but it was awesome...

[Omri]

There's a thing called "sushi sandwich" and as the "Sandwich-Man", I love it!
They'll fry both sides if you ask them real nice, and it's sooo gooooood...

[chilliman64]

I like my sushi simple. maki with salmon, avocado and wasabi. nigiri with salmon.
Obviously a good salmon sashimi is good, too.
Yep... I really like salmon. :P

yeah - salmon +1

ikura (salmon roe) rates pretty highly too

[ring sting]

OK, a little off-topic, but what about whale? :P

Check out these "new" ads they're gonna run here in Aus...

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/thepitch.htm

RS

[Omri]

hehe, liked the right one. :lol:

[cheezydemon]

I absolutely detest cream cheese in my sushi too, but japanese mayo is another story for me. If it doesn't have the spicy mayo, I usually don't order it.

Ditto! (did I just say that?????:shocked:)

I do like sashimi with just wasabi and a little lemon, and I do venture beyond the "spicy" rolls, But spicy tuna, spicy crab, and spicy scallop top my list.

Avacado is fine in the right roll, but I don't like it on the outside.

[GrumpyBear]

i'll just eat avocado mashed up on toast so maybe i'm biased.

also, i too love the salmon roe.

[cheezydemon]

Avacado is yummy, I like it more in mexican cooking though.

*OFF TOPIC*

Good to see you Grumpy, there was a distinct lack of zombie references in the last few weeks!;)

[GrumpyBear]

*OFF TOPIC*

Good to see you Grumpy, there was a distinct lack of zombie references in the last few weeks!;)

how ever did you get along...

funny thing is i felt kinda zombie-ish during exams... i was tempted to fill in a cafeteria comment card with "more brains and bring back hawaiian fridays"

[imaguitargod]

It's good to know that I am not the only zombie afficinato around these parts.

[fineexampl]

BACK FROM THE DEAD!!!


Had some badass sushi at Sono last night, here in Jersey. We don't mess with the raw stuff aside from the little orange fish eggs, but we do alright.

My real question is, where's the heat? No peppers in the sushi?? The heat is nearly absent from all things sushi. We don't like wasabi either, so where's the heat??

[klyth]

There is no heat. Japanese food isn't spicy. You want spicy, go southern Thai or eastern Indian.

I've always thought maki would be great with peppers, but they just don't use them. The "spicy mayo" is pitiful - although it tastes great. It's not even warm. I think when they say "spicy," they just mean they use spices.

[fineexampl]

Yeah, they do make the distinction of spicy meaning spices. While eating, i mentioned to my lovely date that it would be killer to get a roll with crab, avocado, etc. and just a nice bead of ultra-hot hotsauce right down the middle. I guess that would be some kind of fusion dish, but damn would that taste amazing.

[RingburnDave]

I go for:

Salmon Nigiri
Hotate Nigiri (raw scallops)
Salmon Roe Gunkhan

mm yummage.

[Buddah]

Yeah, they do make the distinction of spicy meaning spices. While eating, i mentioned to my lovely date that it would be killer to get a roll with crab, avocado, etc. and just a nice bead of ultra-hot hotsauce right down the middle. I guess that would be some kind of fusion dish, but damn would that taste amazing.

There is no reason not to incooperate a little Chilehead into the world of Sushi. Interesting restaurant concept, but would it make money? I would love to have a whole restaurant like a Thai restaurant where they label the heat of everything on the menu with a pepper. I once went to a Thai place where they had 1-3 peppers on the menu for each dish. I ordered 3 pepper appetizer which intimidated me knowing I had a 3 pepper dinner coming. Both were extremely hot, but after cleaning the sweat off my head I asked the waiter, "Is that the hottest you can make it?" Wrong choice of words. He says, "No. We go up to 7 peppers but that is way too hot for most Americans." Tru dat! Of course that was many a moon ago, and I am ready for 7 pepper trouble!

[DickT]

Definitely the roll. I once had a halloween roll that had deep fried salmon skin in it, the salmon kin tasted like bacon, love sushi, its just another reason for me to drink BEER

[theHippySeedCo]

Smoked Salmon and Avacado with the little orange popping egg things tooo

Then a Whole tube of Wasabi, and crank the sinus's :)

[fineexampl]

Smoked Salmon and Avacado with the little orange popping egg things tooo

Then a Whole tube of Wasabi, and crank the sinus's :)I love getting those poppers myself. I get them a la carte sometimes just to savor the flavor.

I think the next time i go i'm going to bring something and see if they can make me a roll with a killer hot sauce inside.

[lostmind]

I went to a restaurant in Hokkaido and had the best sushi of my life. Of course when I was done it cost me nearly $300... but it did take 3 or 4 hours and we did drink several expensive bottles of sake afterwards.

It was a really great experience, especially because the waitress spoke english and explained a few things for me (my japanese is horrible, I can barely order food).

I like uni here in Vancouver, but occasionally you notice a metallic tang or after taste to it. In Hokkaido it was sweet all the way through. Not candy sweet but fresh fish sweet. The uni alone is nearly worth the trip back there.

I'm a raw guy, so sashimi all the way. Plus it's low carb, which honestly helps me fit in my pants. If my white ass eats like an asian I get fat (my wife is chinese). Even when I use some strict portion control and eat less food then the people who weigh 40lbs less then me. The rice and noodles seem to just make me blow up.

Anyways, god like is toro from bluefin tuna. May not be that exotic, but man. I could live on that.

[cheezydemon]

I had sushi last night for dinner. I see this old thread dug up again, and now I have to go get more for lunch!!

Don't like Wasabi???????(finexample)

That is the heat. That' like saying :where is the heat in this burrito??? By the way I don't like hot sauce in it......

To each their own.

I too would love a roll with some thin sliced habanero incorporated. But I would still hit it with some wasabi!

Wasabi has a different kind of heat. i don't care if you eat nagas for breakfast, a teaspoon of wasabi will open up your sinuses and make you feel alive!

[NatGreenMeds]

I think the next time i go I'm going to bring something and see if they can make me a roll with a killer hot sauce inside.
If you are well known at your favorite sushi restaurant, you can take a few peppers with you, explain that they are VERY hot, and ask them to include them into a roll of your choice. I've never had any problem doing this. They enjoy making things like that and will make them as hot or not as you like them.

I make my own rolls and nigiri at home. I bought a medical freezer, (EdgeStar 1.5) (http://www.compactappliance.com/CRF150SS-Edgestar-Compact-Stainless-Steel-Freezer-With-Lock/CRF150SS,default,pd.html) to store the different sushi meats in. It stays at minus 30F or better and the food is vacuum packed into food-saver bags of one serving. I've had some in it for 2 years with no problems. It holds about 5 pounds of meat, which with sushi, will make a LOT of meals. I use one ounce of meat on each roll. That seems to be the amount that works the best.

16 ounces per/pound, I have enough to make 80 rolls or nigiri in one load of the freezer.

I order some of my supplies from http://www.catalinaop.com/ the shipping is expensive, but I only make big orders. I get a few friends to order with me to save on shipping.

I also catch my own fish for sushi and buy local fish from a reputable fish market that is very fresh. I freeze it all and keep my little freezer full all the time with dated bags.

I've gotten where making the sushi rice is easy and consistent in flavor. I use the premixed sushi vinegar.

I'm a confirmed sushi addict.