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Sushi website - “I make sushi” 2007-08-19 08:56:57
imakesushi.com is a website
that has some nice images, general sushi information together with the typical how to make sushi at home. What I like the most about it is that they have some pictures where they focus (more than normal) on presentation. I want to learn more about that…
Take a look!
Links:
I make sushi
How to prepare sashimi 2007-08-18 04:40:03
Making sashimi too is something I think is quite scary to do, because it is so important that the fish is fresh from the store, properly prepared and also properly presented! This video was quite educational in that context. Great initial tutorial to making sashimi at home! Remember not to get bluefin tuna, though!
More Bento Box Art 2007-08-17 14:13:04
E-bento.com (in Japanese only) also has an amazing collection of bentos. I love their beautiful artwork and borderline insane attention to detail.
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Nutrition content and calories in sushi 2007-08-17 09:26:57
Tokyocube is a very cool online lifestyle magazine targeting people interested in “fresh and fun online information on the ever-more fashionable Japanese lifestyle”. On there I found another great article on nutrition content and calories in individual nigiri sushi pieces and makis that might be of interest:
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Phil ate blowfish and lived to blog about it 2007-08-23 15:40:09
Guest Writer: Phil Haack
Do you remember that episode of the Simpsons (number 24 to be exact) where Homer takes his family to a Japanese restaurant and orders the blowfish (fugu)? Yeah, me too.
My father-in-law took us out to a very traditional Japanese dinner as a celebration of a friends impending wedding. Here’s a picture of our room and Akumi listening attentively as our server tells her the menu (or something like that. I couldn’t understand as it sounded like a bunch of jibberish to me. I think they call it “Nihongo” or “Japanese” to you and me).
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Tokyocube 2007-08-23 09:26:59
Tokyocube is a website for people who are looking for both information about Japanese stuff and also find Japanese restaurants in London.
“Tokyocube was founded in 2005 from a growing need for fresh and fun online information on the ever-more fashionable Japanese lifestyle, as well as tailored services directed at both Japanese and English clients to bridge the gap between the two nations. We have a young and dynamic team of Japanese and English individuals, working passionately to spread the word on Japanese culture in the UK, providing lifestyle features, directory listings, and dedicated Japanese services.”
Visit their website:
Tokyo Cube
How to make a fancy maki 2007-08-22 14:15:05
VideoJug: How To Make A Fancy Maki-Sushi
Here is another video that shows you how to make kasari maki, or fancy maki sushi as they call it here. I so wanna learn how to do this! Must practice. Must practice.
Sushi Nemo 2007-08-22 12:29:45
I know - these are old pictures, but I still find them cute. He needed to go on here. But when I started looking around, Nemo is a popular figure to poka at. Not only is he put into makis, he also have lots of videos on YouTube where they renamed the movie into “Finding Sushi
”. I did not really think they were that funny though.
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Tuna - from pet food to threatened delicacy 2007-08-22 07:49:13
Over-fishing has made Atlantic bluefin tuna a prized delicacy. This comes a century after the fish were scorned in Europe as pet food, according to studies that urges for better international protection. Hear, hear! “Tuna are now like floating goldmines out in the ocean,” says Brian MacKenzie of the Technical University of Denmark.
This article tells the interesting story of the Bluefin Tuna. The way it has been perceived and praised have completely changed over the years. The Bluefin tuna used to teem in the summers in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea a century ago as part of migrations that could take them 16 000km a year. Now they are rarely seen in our region after a burst of industrial fishing from 1910-1950. Hmm…
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Sushi chef - Masatoshi “Gari” Sugio 2007-08-21 15:15:54 Chef Masatoshi Sugio has developed a sort of cult around the preciously presented, unusually sauced sushi at his tiny, out-of-the-way Sushi
of Gari on far East 78th Street, NY. He opened a bigger place at Columbus and 78th Street, to make the commute easier for such devotees as Yoko Ono and Kevin Kline… (ah - more sushi celebrities!). He said the main barrier to expansion was not real estate, but finding someone to make sushi his way. “I had to train the new chef for many, many years to understand my style”. He has a branch in Aoyama, Tokyo too.
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Is your fish sushi fresh? 2007-08-21 10:00:43
Many consumers are unsure when they’re going to assess the fish’s quality. Actually, it’s easy to find out whether it’s as it should be. Scientist Margrethe Esaiassen at Fiskeriforskning is an expert in fish quality. She gives us three rules of thumb for fresh
salmon and cod.
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Sushi celebrity - Robert DeNiro 2007-08-21 06:42:38 The Nobu chain was a result of De Niro meeting Nobuyuki Matsuhisa at the chef’s first U.S. restaurant in Los Angeles.
“I thought the place was great. I told him, ‘If you ever want to open a restaurant in New York, let me know,”‘ De Niro said. “A year or two later, he called me, said ‘I’m interested.”‘
Nobu started as a business partnership in 1994 between De Niro, Matsuhisa, Richie Notar and Hollywood producer Meir Teper. The first restaurant opened in New York. The chain now has locations across the world, from Italy to the Bahamas. They just opened a restaurant in Melbourne, Australia (August 2007). De Niro said he’s a huge fan of Japanese food, and not just for the flavors. “On top of everything else, it’s healthier for you,” he said. “I don’t see many overweight Japanese, except sumo wrestlers.” We think he sounds like a good fella…
Link:
Herald Sun - Be a goodfella and t Read more:Sushi
, Robert
Sushi Celebrities - Tom and Katie 2007-08-27 19:19:13 You all remember the jumping in the sofa, and numerous interviews with a mad, mad Tom Cruise… But do you remember how it started? And what helped them on their way to this maddening love relationship? You guessed it. Sushi
!
- Katie
Holmes secretly flew to Los Angeles after Cruise summoned her to a private meeting at his office. Four hours of banter later, Cruise fessed up and asked the young actress on a sushi date.
The next evening, the sushi date occurred not at a restaurant but aboard Cruise’s private jet, 15,000 feet above Southern California, Us reports. That was followed by a ride on his motorcycle, a romantic beach trip and more secret dates….
Original link:
Tom, Katie flying high on romance - USA Today Read more:Celebrities
Bento Box Artist 2007-08-27 16:52:01
This woman, Junka Terashimam, is a true artist! The lunch boxes she creates for her kids really belongs in a museum. We’ll pretend we are an online Louvre today:
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Saving Sushi… 2007-08-27 16:19:32
No - they are not your next lunch. They’re USB memory sticks. Some of them have up to 1 GB of memory and costs around $100 on eBay and other similar websites. There are probably for sale on some Japanese but I could not find it. They are cool, though. I would want the futomaki one. More pictures:
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Sushi Sudoku 2007-08-27 07:49:05 Sudoku
is quite addictive. Sushi
is very addictive… This is a sushi sudoku game - will it have you play again and again?
Link:
Play the game here >>
Sushi Links 2007-08-26 23:43:45 Sushi
Links say they offer the best sushi resources on the web, as well as information on the history of sushi, pointers on sushi etiquette, and answers to frequently asked questions concerning sushi. I cannot see that they point to my website, so I would not call them complete… (:)), but they have a lot of really interesting content.
Link:
Sushilinks.com - a good sushi resource
Sushi House - Sagene, Oslo 2007-08-26 15:27:39 SushiHouse
in Sporveisgata has become one of my favorites in Oslo. This is their second sushi bar, but I have no idea what they share other than the name. It was not Sushi House quality!
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How to read Sake labels 2007-08-26 13:22:39
I find Sake labels very beautiful. I found an image from “The Book of Sake: A Connoisseur’s Guide” by Philip Harper that explains also how to read the sake labels. My Japanese is very elementary and my Sake experience not that thorough, so I needed a guide.
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Sushi Chef - Sotohiro Kosugi 2007-08-26 10:48:05 Sotohiro Kosugi won Food & Wine Magazine’s annual Best New Chef award back in 1997, when he was working at Soto Japanese Restaurant, Atlanta (now closed).
For 11 years, Kosugi, a third-generation sushi chef, made sushi in the South, developing such an impressive reputation in Atlanta that he decided to try his hand up in New York.
Kosugi left Atlanta to open Soto in Manhattan’s West Village in May 2007. He serves as sushi chef, serving dishes like Japanese bream with ginger-scallion oil and Long Island fluke with lime, sea salt and yuzu zest from the 12-seat sushi bar, while his wife, Maho, oversees the kitchen.
Kosugi is famous for his “expansive, haute-Japanese cuisine”. Whatever that means..? Sounds interesting. Will have to go there once to try him (them) out.
(Not sure if the chef in the picture is Mr. Kosugi, but it is at least taken at his restaurant in NY)
Links:
Bloomberg - Sushi
Star Tops Uni With Quail Egg, Wows New York
Food & wine - Sushi
A proper San Fransisco sushi quest 2007-08-25 16:27:41
I set a goal of trying out all the sushi bars we had in my city. We are talking Oslo here, a small city of half a million people. It means you have to go to about 30-40 places, and I thought that was quite a lot. Then I read about this guy. He calls himself the Sushi Monster - and he woke up hungry for sushi and went out to try out all sushi places on the San Fransisco peninsula. Here is his story:
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New tool for checking the freshness of fish 2007-08-25 09:38:10
You can see and smell if a fish is good, but determining its keeping quality requires more precise methods. At Aqua Nor, Fiskeriforskning demonstrates a freshness gauge that gives the answer at once. To determine how fresh the fish is - and provided it has been properly stored - fish fillet producers work out the time since the fish was caught.
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Wasabi vs. El Salsador 2007-08-25 06:24:38
More from the Superpretzlers 2007. Does anything Wasabi say make any sense? Can El Salsador actually fight? Is Super Captain Cheese Wizard the greatest 12-year-old color commentator/superhero ever? Watch and find out.
Link:
The Wasabi Way - Presentation of Wasabi the Superpretzel
Superpretzel 2007
Sushi Celebrity - Brad and Angelina 2007-08-25 06:22:17 Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie are of course into sushi! The Pitt-Jolie family has been in the Chicago area while Angelina has been shooting her latest film, Wanted. After spending some quality time with their children at the Field’s museum, Brad and Angelina decided spend an evening alone together.
They were spotted going on a date to the restaurant Japonais in Chicago where the pair spent some time chatting with the local rap star, Kanye West, who also dined at this sushi restaurant. Japonais is a contemporary Japanese and sushi restaurant which has locations in New York, Chicago, and Las Vegas.
Link:
Perez Hilton - Eating Is Good
Popsugar - Brad & Angie’s romance over sushi
Just Jared.com - Brangelina go Japanese Read more:Sushi
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How to make a California Roll with roe 2007-08-25 04:36:48
VideoJug: How To Make A California
Roll Uramaki
This is maybe the best online tutorial of how to make a proper California roll I have seen. I have already two other videos on here, but I think I like this one the best. Enjoy!
Google Sushi Earth 2007-08-24 16:55:08
I don’t know if you have tried this feature yet, Google
Maps. You probably have - it’s nothing new - but I still think it is a really nice feature! In Google Maps you can search for whatever you are looking for and the search result is then linked to a map. What I did was search for sushi, oslo, norway - and then I get all the sushi restaurants that are registered in their systems tagged with sushi. Here is what it looks like when you search for sushi, london:
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Moshi Moshi - Liverpool Street, London 2007-08-24 05:44:44
Written by: Snorre M., London
Moshi Moshi is a conveyor-belt Japanese restaurant conveniently located at Liverpool
Station, and thus attracts a mixed crowd of City businessmen and travellers who prefer their fast food served on a slab of rice instead of between hamburger buns.
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Wasaaaabi… 2007-08-24 05:43:19
I remember this being a classic from back in the dot.com days! It needed to go on my website somewhere… I am glad I found it. It was good seeing it again!
Wasaaaabi!
Test your Sushi IQ 2007-08-31 12:28:36
Rate your Sushi
IQ!
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Quiz by Quibblo
Here is your chance to test your niche skill. How much do you really know about sushi? I did quite good - 87%. Not perfect though. Thought some of the questions were quite hard to answer, but because I did not understand their meaning of the question. (Typically me - explaining why I did not do a 100%…). Why don’t you try?
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