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I do.
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Yes, it's my favorite food. Sometimes I fantasize about it during waking hours. If I was to try to eat completely kosher I think Sushi would be my number one obstacle. I don't eat it that much because it's expensive but whenever I do I pig out.
My favorite sushi is pretty much any type of nigiri especially unagi, salmon, tuna.
My favorite rolls are usually specialty rolls. One of my favorite pieces of sushi I've ever had is a "rainbow roll" which is basically a California roll with slices of different fish put on top making it different colors on top hence why it's called a rainbow roll. Also a good roll I've had is a California roll with alternate slices of unagi (fresh water eel) and avacodo with teriyaki sauce on top. I also like tempura shrimp in my sushi. Basically, I'm down to eat any sushi that's out there I love it all. (I know it's extremely unkosher)
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Why not just eat kosher sushi?
Because there aren't any kosher sushi places where I live. I suppose I could make my own but it's never as good as it is in the restaurant.
Philadelphia rolls are very common in the U.S. I've seen it on the menu at every sushi place I've ever been at here.
I had a Philadelphia roll in Israel at a Sushi place owned and operated by Russians! They actually had good sushi, not the variety that you find in the states but still good!
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Totally no! My friend eats it and she puts me off :-\
Humans found out how to make fire for a reason :(
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There are some good sushi restranty in Czech capitol of Prague. I have eat this, I like it.
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NO! Raw fish is good for Golum not me. ;)
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I like sushi. But I find that if that's the only thing I eat, then that doesn't satiate me. I then need to eat something else to get full. I love to eat it with wasabi and ginger, just gotta be carefull not to put too much wasabi on it or I'll burn out my tear ducts and sinuses.
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I Like it very much!
I used to be disguised by eating raw fish and seaweed and other weird things... but when I weight the benefits of eating healthy over the better tasting fastfood, it was NO contest. In mine mind I just forced myself to eat it and now it's been a couple of years and I love to go out and enjoy it!
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No, I hate all seafood, Ive never actually eaten it but I just cant get past the smell and look :-\
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I LOVE it! I could eat it every day!
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I find the sushi bites a bit too small. :)
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Never tasted it, and I don't think I would.
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I LOVE it! I could eat it every day!
Me too.
Yacov, you'd turn into a fish if you ate it everyday! :)
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Love it!
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Tastes good but it can never fill me up :-[
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Yep, love sushi.
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What about the vegetarian one
Hmmm never thought about the vegetarian one, I do love rice and vegetables, I suppose I could try that one as long as there isnt any mushrooms in it.
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I find the sushi bites a bit too small. :)
Hey, it's not the size that counts ;)
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I LOVE it! I could eat it every day!
Me too.
Yacov, you'd turn into a fish if you ate it everyday! :)
How do you know he's not? ;)
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Do you like Chinese food?
Yes I love it, I always order without mushrooms, telling them that I am allergic so they will be sure not to put them in ;)
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never heard of sushi with mushrooms, sushi is Japanese though, not Chinese.
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Im not sure whats in sushi, I just hate seafood, I know there is rice and veggies, Im going to try the vegetarian one
There is usually mushrooms in chinese food, and even if you say no mushrooms they still put them in...but if i tell them i will drop dead in their restaurant from eating one they tend to be careful not to add them lol guess dead diners arent good for business :laugh:
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Its better than ya think girl!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
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Im not sure whats in sushi, I just hate seafood, I know there is rice and veggies, Im going to try the vegetarian one
There is usually mushrooms in chinese food, and even if you say no mushrooms they still put them in...but if i tell them i will drop dead in their restaurant from eating one they tend to be careful not to add them lol guess dead diners arent good for business :laugh:
In Japanese cuisine, sushi (寿司, 鮨, 鮓, sushi?) is a food made of vinegared rice, usually topped with other ingredients including fish (cooked or uncooked) and vegetables. Sushi as an English word has come to refer to a complete dish with rice and toppings; this is the sense used in this article. The original word Japanese: 寿司 sushi, written in kanji, means "snack" and refers to the rice, but not fish or other toppings.[1] Outside of Japan, sushi is sometimes misunderstood to mean the raw fish by itself, or even any fresh raw-seafood dishes [2]. In Japan, sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi and is distinct from sushi.
There are various types of sushi: sushi served rolled inside nori (dried and pressed layer sheets of seaweed or alga) called makizushi (巻き) or rolls; sushi made with toppings laid with hand-formed clumps of rice called nigirizushi (にぎり); toppings stuffed into a small pouch of fried tofu called inarizushi; and toppings served scattered over a bowl of sushi rice called chirashi-zushi (ちらし).
Ingredients
Various nigiri sushi in an ice sculpture
Various nigiri sushi in an ice sculpture
All sushi has a base of specially prepared rice, and complemented with other ingredients.
[edit] Sushi rice
Sushi is made with white, short-grained, Japanese rice mixed with a dressing made of rice vinegar, sugar, salt, kombu, and occasionally sake. It is usually cooled to room temperature before being used for a filling in a sushi. In some fusion cuisine restaurants, short grain brown rice and wild rice are also used.
Sushi rice (sushi-meshi) is prepared with short-grain Japanese rice, which has a consistency that differs from long-grain strains such as India. The essential quality is its stickiness. Rice that is too sticky has a mushy texture; if not sticky enough, it feels dry. Freshly harvested rice (shinmai) typically has too much water, and requires extra time to drain the rice cooker after washing.
There are regional variations in sushi rice and, of course, individual chefs have their individual methods. Most of the variations are in the rice vinegar dressing: "the Tokyo version of the dressing commonly uses more salt; in Osaka, the dressing has more sugar".
Sushi rice generally must be used shortly after it is made. The Wiki Cookbook has a simple recipe for sushi.
[edit] Nori
The seaweed wrappers used in maki and temaki are called nori. Nori is an algae, traditionally cultivated into the harbors of Japan. Originally, algae was scraped from dock pilings, rolled out into sheets, and dried in the sun, in a process similar to making paper. Nori is toasted before being used in food.
Today, the commercial product is farmed, produced, toasted, packaged, and sold in standard-size sheets in about 18 cm by 21 cm (7 in by 8 in). Higher quality nori is thick, smooth, shiny, black, and has no holes.
Nori by itself is an edible snack and is available flavored with teriyaki sauce. The flavored variety, however, tends to be of lesser quality and is not suitable for sushi.
[edit] Omelette
Wikibooks
Wikibooks Cookbook has an article on
Inarizushi
When making fukusazushi, a paper-thin omelet may replace a sheet of nori as the wrapping. The omelet is traditionally made on a rectangular omelet pan (makiyakinabe), and used to form the pouch for the rice and fillings.
[edit] Toppings and fillings
Yaki Anago-Ippon-Nigiri (焼きアナゴ一本握り). A roasted and sweet sauced whole conger.
Yaki Anago-Ippon-Nigiri (焼きアナゴ一本握り). A roasted and sweet sauced whole conger.
Main article: List of sushi and sashimi ingredients and styles
* Fish
For culinary, sanitary, and aesthetic reasons, fish eaten raw must be fresher and of higher quality than fish which is cooked.
Professional sushi chefs are trained to recognize good fish. Important attributes include smells, color, and being free of obvious parasites that normal commercial inspection do not detect (many go undetected).
Only ocean fish are used raw in sushi; freshwater fish are more likely to harbor parasites that are harmful to humans if uncooked.
Commonly-used fish are tuna (akami, chutoro, shiro-maguro, toro), Japanese amberjack, also known as yellowtail (hamachi), snapper (kurodai), conger (hamo), mackerel (saba), salmon (sake), and eel (anago and unagi). The most valued sushi ingredient is toro, the fatty cut of tuna. This comes in a variety of ōtoro (often from the bluefin species of tuna) and chutoro, meaning middle toro, implying that it is halfway into the fattiness between toro and regular red tuna (akami).
Aburi style refers to nigiri sushi where the fish is partially grilled (topside) and partially raw.
* Seafood
Other seafoods such as squid (ika), octopus (tako), shrimp (ebi and amaebi), clam (mirugai, aoyagi and akagi), fish roe (ikura, masago, kazunoko and tobiko), sea urchin (uni), crab (kani), and various kinds of shellfish (abalone, prawn, scallop, uni sea urchin) are the most popular seafoods in sushi. Oysters, however, are not typically put in sushi because the taste is not thought to go well with the rice. However, some sushi restaurants in New Orleans are known to have Fried Oyster Rolls and Crawfish rolls.
Ebifurai-Maki(エビフライ巻き). Fried-Shrimp Roll.
Ebifurai-Maki(エビフライ巻き). Fried-Shrimp Roll.
* Vegetables
Pickled daikon radish (takuan) in shinko maki, pickled vegetables (tsukemono), fermented soybeans (nattō) in nattō maki, avocado in California rolls, cucumber in kappa maki, asparagus, yam, tofu, pickled ume (umeboshi), gourd (kampyō), burdock (gobo), and sweet corn may be mixed with mayonnaise.
* Red meat
Beef, ham, spam, sausage, and horse meat are often lightly cooked.
Note: It is a common misconception that in Hawaii, fried Spam is a popular local variation for sushi. In reality, Spam musubi differs from sushi in that its rice lacks the vinegar required to classify it. Spam musubi is correctly classified as onigiri.
* Other fillings
Eggs (in the form of slightly sweet, layered omelet called tamagoyaki), and raw quail eggs ride as a gunkan-maki topping.
Date-Maki (伊達巻). Futomaki wrapped with sweet-tamagoyaki.
Date-Maki (伊達巻). Futomaki wrapped with sweet-tamagoyaki.
[edit] Condiments
* Shōyu
The common name for soy sauce. In sushi restaurants, it may also be referred to as murasaki (lit. "purple").
* Wasabi
A piquant paste made from the grated root of the wasabi plant. Real wasabi (hon-wasabi) is Wasabi japonica. Hon-wasabi has anti-microbial properties and may reduce the risk of food poisoning.[11] The traditional grating tool for wasabi is a sharkskin grater or samegawa oroshi.
An imitation wasabi (seiyo-wasabi), made from horseradish, mustard powder and dyed green are common. It is found at lower-end kaiten zushi restaurants, in bento box sushi and at most restaurants outside of Japan. If it is manufactured in Japan, it may be labelled "Japanese Horseradish".[12]
In sushi restaurants, wasabi may be referred to as namida ("tears").
* Gari
Sweet, pickled ginger. Eaten to both cleanse the palate as well as to aid in the digestive process.
* Ocha
In Japan, green tea (ocha) is invariably served together with sushi. Better sushi restaurants often use a distinctive premium tea known as mecha. In sushi vocabulary, green tea is known as agari.
[edit] Nutritional information
The main ingredients of sushi, raw fish and rice are naturally low in fat (with the exception of some rolls and western style rolls), high in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals.[13] Specifically:
* Fats: Most seafood are naturally low in fat; and what fat is found in them is generally rich in unsaturated fat Omega-3. Since sushi is often served raw, no fat is introduced in its preparation.
* Proteins: Fish, tofu, seafood, egg, and many other sushi fillings contain high levels of protein.
* Vitamins and Minerals: These are found in many of the vegetables used for sushi. For example, the gari and nori used to make sushi are both rich in nutrients. Other vegetables wrapped within the sushi also offer various degrees of nutritional value.
* Carbohydrates: These are found in the rice and the vegetables.
On the other hand, some fish such as tuna can carry high levels of mercury and can be hazardous when consumed in large quantities.
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I find the sushi bites a bit too small. :)
Hey, it's not the size that counts ;)
When I eat, size matters. ^-^
Though I guess, quality isn't quantity. Sushi just leaves you crazing for a bit more.
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I like Sushi.
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I rather eat fish cooked
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You know G-d allowed man to create fire for a REASON!
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well did he?
Actually i didn't hear the greenies demanding the abolishment of fire/heating and stuff.
Watch my words.
it's Al ghore's next step.
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well did he?
Yes for cooking lol
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I love sushi and especially with the Wasabi sauce O0 ;D
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I love sushi and especially with the Wasabi sauce O0 ;D
mean i almost read and especially with the Wahabi sauce.
that wwould be quite cannibalistic...
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I love sushi and especially with the Wasabi sauce O0 ;D
mean i almost read and especially with the Wahabi sauce.
that wwould be quite cannibalistic...
what do you mean?
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I love sushi and especially with the Wasabi sauce O0 ;D
mean i almost read and especially with the Wahabi sauce.
that wwould be quite cannibalistic...
what do you mean?
Wahabi = extrrrreme muzzies from Sodomi-arapia.
to make sauce of them , is a bit inhumane.
And it is forbidden to eat humans.
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I love sushi and especially with the Wasabi sauce O0 ;D
mean i almost read and especially with the Wahabi sauce.
that wwould be quite cannibalistic...
what do you mean?
Wahabi = extrrrreme muzzies from Sodomi-arapia.
to make sauce of them , is a bit inhumane.
And it is forbidden to eat humans.
yeah it does rhyme
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I love sushi and especially with the Wasabi sauce O0 ;D
mean i almost read and especially with the Wahabi sauce.
that wwould be quite cannibalistic...
what do you mean?
Wahabi = extrrrreme muzzies from Sodomi-arapia.
to make sauce of them , is a bit inhumane.
And it is forbidden to eat humans.
Luckily they arent human lol but youre right that would be one awful sauce ^-^
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Wahabi thats that hot green stuff ? :-\
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Wahabi thats that hot green stuff ? :-\
There's Jihad Wahabi sauce and Kamikaze Wasabi sauce, pick your choice ;D
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I love sushi and especially with the Wasabi sauce O0 ;D
mean i almost read and especially with the Wahabi sauce.
that wwould be quite cannibalistic...
what do you mean?
Wahabi = extrrrreme muzzies from Sodomi-arapia.
to make sauce of them , is a bit inhumane.
And it is forbidden to eat humans.
Left this one to Husar, I read here that we're to help Osama (Usamah Ibn Ladin too) :D
Did you noticed that medias made him a Jewish? :-[
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My brother loves it i hate it
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I love sushi and especially with the Wasabi sauce O0 ;D
mean i almost read and especially with the Wahabi sauce.
that wwould be quite cannibalistic...
what do you mean?
Wahabi = extrrrreme muzzies from Sodomi-arapia.
to make sauce of them , is a bit inhumane.
And it is forbidden to eat humans.
Left this one to Husar, I read here that we're to help Osama (Usamah Ibn Ladin too) :D
Did you noticed that medias made him a Jewish? :-[
I don't understand what you're saying Ultra Requete 8;)
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My brother loves it i hate it
O0 O0 O0 Good man 8;)
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Wahabi thats that hot green stuff ? :-\
There's Jihad Wahabi sauce and Kamikaze Wasabi sauce, pick your choice ;D
oh it is then. Thats not to bad I like that stuff, I love hot food. I had cooked fish with it. O0 :::D
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I couldn't eat any meat or fish raw. Even though I know all sushi is not raw, I still associate it with being raw and I don't like that seaweed wrap either.
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Corection Bin is as valid as ibn:
Monday, December 27, 2004
Who Put the Bin in Osama Bin Laden?
My knowledge of Arabic is, regrettably, rudimentary, consisting of one semester of formal study, supplemented by unsystematic factoids acquired along the way in a career devoted mainly to other Semitic languages. However, I do know that the Arabic word for "son," at least in its dictionary form, is "ibn." Therefore why is it "Osama Bin Laden," and not "Osama Ibn Laden"? (Actually you can find via Google a few hundred cases of "Osama Ibn Laden," far outnumbered by the million or so for the "bin" form.)
I thought I had this figured out. Here's what I was thinking: In Arabic the consonant (glottal stop) that carries the sound /i/ in "ibn," is the "hamzatul wasl," which is not etymologically original to the word. It disappears when preceded by a vowel. You can see the hamza disappear in another famous Arabic name, wherein "Abdu al-Jabbar" (Servant of the Almighty) becomes "Abdu-l-Jabbar." In the instance of OBL, the expected "Osama Ibn" becomes "Osama Bn," which by the additional process of anaptyxis (i.e., insertion of a helping vowel; see previous post on The Joys of Anaptyxis) becomes "Osama Bin." Ta-da!
But then I read here:
In colloquial Arabic in the Persian Gulf, the word meaning “son of” is pronounced “bin,” not “ibn,” when it refers to a family name. Hence, the popular Romanization conveys the pronunciation “bin,” and not “ibn.”
All right, that makes sense. The Arabic vernaculars are often pretty different from the Standard Arabic that I was semi-educated in, so I have to accept this. Still, wouldn't the Evil One wish to be known by a Standard or Hocharabisch name, and not by a colloquial form? Or do the colloquial and standard simply merge in this case?
At this point we reach an abrupt end of my Arabic knowledge. If any of my readers can give me an authoritative opinion, I would be very grateful: Who put the Bin in Osama Bin Laden? (My wife told me, "Honey, I can't imagine anyone being interested in this." C'mon, folks, prove her wrong!)
posted by EMC @ 1:09 PM 3 comments
3 Comments:
At 12/27/2004 01:54:00 PM, Dierk van den Berg said...
In Arabic there is only one spelling, but the transcription into Latin letters knows variants like Ben Laden, Bin Ladin, bin Ladin, bin Laden and BinLaden. His first name, Usama, is easily pronounced by Americans as Yusama, therefore Arabs often write Osama. Originally, BinLaden was a Yemenite clan name, forwarded by his fertile father Muhammad BinLadin over the Arab Penisula (Al-Jazirah) of the Saud clan. However, acc. to Arab custom he is called AbuMuhammad Usama binMuhammad BinLadin - Father of Muhammad, Usama, son of Muhammad of the "sons of Ladin". I recall the War Scroll 1QM and need a cup of coffee now. Would you also care for a cup of coffee now?
tot ziens,
Dierk
KU Nijmegen (NL)
At 12/27/2004 02:45:00 PM, EMC said...
That's good information, but it doesn't answer my question. Let me put it a different way: In OBL's dialect, is "bin" used regardless of the phonetic environment? Would one indeed say, for instance, "Muhammad Bin Laden" or "Muhammad Ibn Laden"?
(Personally, I drink coffee around the clock.)
At 12/27/2004 03:36:00 PM, Dierk van den Berg said...
In the declined form 'ibn' apparently turns to 'bn/u', which has been polished to 'bin', the only form adopted by and thus familiar to the Western media. So the family-clan name ibnLadin (cf. ibnSaud) has turned into binLadin (some argue for the terror era that followed after the assassination of his teacher 'Abdullah 'Azzam in Peshawar 1989).
http://ralphriver.blogspot.com/2004/12/who-put-bin-in-osama-bin-laden.html