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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:20 PM
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I'm getting sushi for dinner and I have no clue what to get!!!
Edited on Wed Oct-04-06 05:40 PM by haruka3_2000
Any suggestions?

http://eastcafenj.com/

Yes guys, I can order my sushi online and get it delivered. BWAHAHAHAAHA!!!

The suggestion box is closed: Yellowtail sushi, salmon sushi, spicy tuna handroll, octopus sashimi
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:20 PM
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1. raw fish
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:21 PM
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3. Smart ass.
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:23 PM
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4. cooked fish wouldn't be sushi, now would it?
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:24 PM
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6. Actually, it can be. It can even be vegetarian.
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toadzilla Donating Member (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 09:36 PM
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25. mmmmmm avacado rolls
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 09:40 PM
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26. Avocado rolls are good.
Actually, anything containing avocado is good.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:37 PM
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12. Since sushi is just the rice, it doesn't matter about fish. Sushi is sushi
And sushi can indeed be paired with cooked fish - unagi (eel) is almost always cooked before being added to sushi.

I have a vague memory of something else I've had that has always, or almost always, been cooked, but I could be mistaken; and I certainly can't remember right now what it was.

Most times, though, toppings for sushi - when they are fish - are raw.
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:39 PM
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14. never mind
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:41 PM
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15. It certainly can.
"Sushi" is a class of appetizer and can be anything, including my favorite sushi, inarizushi (sushi rice stuffed in a salty-sweet brown pocket made from fried tofu).

By the way, I generally hate seafood, but I like sushi, even the sashimi (raw fish on a wad of rice). Why? Because sushi is Japan's proof to the world that a good enough cook working with fresh enough ingredients can make anything taste good!
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:21 PM
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2. Spicy Tuna handroll
Unagi (broiled eel)

If all else fails get Sake Sushi (raw salmon)

But if you like spicy stuff, go with the Spicy Tuna
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:24 PM
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5. Do you want just sushi, or are you thinking of sushi with toppings?
let me suggest Toro, Unagi, and horse. I also love urchin guts, salmon, and squid. Tako is good, but I'm not into eating much of it. Whale - wonderful! And even the standard california roll with avocado and fake crab, cucumber, and whatever else they want is also always good stuff. Oh, mackeral is good, and so is flounder.

If you can get grilled urchin, even better! Yum!
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:25 PM
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7. Tako is octopus right? I'm tempted to try that.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:26 PM
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8. Hai.
Nui ono!!
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:26 PM
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9. Order it "well-done," and see what they say.
Redstone
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:30 PM
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"I'm on a diet - I'm wondering what you have for baked sushi?"
:rofl:
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 06:16 PM
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17. Works every time for me. Pisses Mrs R off, but works for me.
Redstone
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:30 PM
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10. Get a 2 piece sushi of each of the following:
Yellowtail (hamachi)
Tuna
Salmon
Eel (unagi)
Tako (octopus)--do this one as sashimi

(I scoped out the menu you linked).

Make sure you get soy sauce and wasabi. Make a paste out of a little wasabi and some soy sauce, and dip the end of your sushi into it, and enjoy.

The sampling listed is fairly accessible, I think, to someone newer to sushi.

Enjoy! I didn't know squat about sushi and my wife taught me everything. We have it all the time now.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:38 PM
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13. I ordered that except for the unagi, because I won't eat that much.
I'm not a sushi newbie. Just really indecisive tonight. The octopus is new for me though.
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:36 PM
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11. absolutely
crab, cucumber, avacado

or salmon instead of the crab

in some of the fake wasabi with some soy



mmmmmmm mmmmmm
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Tyo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 06:07 PM
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16. Natto-maki
and maybe some hamachi, and some tobiko gunkan-maki
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 07:44 PM
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18. No natto.
:puke:

However, I did try tako sashimi for the first time and I really liked it.
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Tyo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 08:54 PM
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19. Tako is good
But you really should give natto a chance. :9
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 08:56 PM
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20. I've been around natto and that was enough.
Other forms of soy are fine. Not natto.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 06:04 AM
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29. Natto is truly one of the most digusting things ever made for food.
:puke:

My partner loves it - I can barely tolerate the smell.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 08:58 PM
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21. Did you try the wasabi?
That stuff is great, but use with caution - get too much in your mouth, and steam will come out of your ears.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 09:00 PM
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22. I always use the wasabi up.
My tolerance for spicy food is amazing.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 09:14 PM
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23. I know what you mean...
I have to torture myself with an overdose of wasabi once in a while. Clears the sinuses up.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 09:18 PM
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24. Well my sinuses are fucked, so spicy food actually lets me breathe
normal. Actually, one of my cats has a chronic untreatable sinus thing. She'll lick a tiny bit of wasabi off my finger when I get sushi. Then, she always shakes her head, sneezes and walks away like nothing happened. I think she knows that it helps her sinuses.
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Porcupine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 11:36 PM
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27. Try Tobiko or Uni, with quail egg if you're really brave.
or see if they'll make a salmon skin hand roll; yummy. Skip the octopus though because that's just squeaky.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 12:02 AM
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28. I like tobiko. I don't like uni or quail egg.
This thread was more of a "I'm being an indecisive about dinner" thread than a "Ahh, I don't understand sushi thread."
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 08:59 AM
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30. yummy!
I'd get the boston roll and a spicy salmon roll.
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