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Broco
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 Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:06 am |
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Yes, on the west coast. The population of Japanese immigrants is large enough there that there are pretty authentic restaurants.
My personal elitist slant on this issue is that sushi and other raw fish foods are fine, but they're a wee bit overemphasized considering they aren't the only great food to come out of Japan. If you do find an authentic restaurant, consider trying some of the other dishes; there's lots of excellent stuff with noodles, cooked fish, egg and so on. If you must have the raw fish with rice, try ordering it in a bowl for a change ("donburi"). |
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Broco
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:10 am |
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| extrabastardformula wrote: |
| Kappuru wrote: |
| That is not sushi. I'm sorry to pull the elitist thing, but maki rolls, especially American ones, are no more sushi than an american taco is a taco. |
Dude, anything wrapped in a tortilla is a taco like how anything between two slices of bread is a sandwich even if it ain't a rueben.
Isn't sushi all about the rice? |
Eh, you're both right. Kappuru's thinking of the Japanese word "sushi" (which means a roughly cylindrical rice patty with a slab of raw fish, cooked fish, egg or meat on top), you're thinking of the English word "sushi" (which means raw fish, possibly with rice and other ingredients, in any shape). The meaning has changed upon importation into another language.
There are few loanwords either from English -> Japanese or Japanese -> English that have preserved their exact meaning. E.g. the Japanese katakana word manshon (from "mansion") means "apartment building". As long as you're conscious that they're two separate words despite the historical origin and similar pronunciation, there's no need for debate or confusion.
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