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My first taste of Japanese food...
By: NealC Date: April 13, 2019, 10:51 am
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...has laid me low. :-(
The idea of Sushi has never really appealed to me, and although
we do have some Japanese Steak Houses on Long Island, I can't
remember going before. A new Japanese take out place just
opened close by - Sushi and Hibachi. Thursday the crew decides
to go, asks if I want some. I order Chicken Katsu.
It was good, a lot of new flavors in the various things on the
plate. In the center of the plate are two florettes, made with
some sort of paste. I taste one and it tastes like flowers, my
son thinks it was ginger. The other one is green and I pop the
whole thing in my mouth.
Of course some of you are laughing already, knowing that I threw
a wad of wasabi down my gullet. The overwhelming taste of
horseradish exploded in my mouth, my throat, and powered through
my sinuses. It was so bad I screamed like a little girl, lost
my breath, and nearly lost control of my bowels!
My brain screamed "Spit it out!" but it was too late. It was
already headed to my stomach, leaving a trail of hot devastation
as it went.
So for the past two days I have been in digestive purgatory as
the wasabi works its way through my system. Today I dare not
stray more than 3-5 meters from a toilet. Hopefully, today will
be the end, so to speak.
I don't think I will be eating Japanese again!
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Re: My first taste of Japanese food...
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 13, 2019, 11:10 am
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Neal
You proved that wasabi kills bacteria. It usually attacks
bacteria on raw fish with a little bit, the amount like less
quarter of a coffee spoon. You ate full amount wasabi of a spoon
so that it killed all bacterias in your bowel.
It's too dangerous to go to a sushi restaurant without knowing
about the effect of wasabi.
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Re: My first taste of Japanese food...
By: NealC Date: April 13, 2019, 11:18 am
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I guess you are supposed to mix small amounts of it with the
rest of your food?
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Re: My first taste of Japanese food...
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 13, 2019, 11:24 am
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Yes. you should have put a little wasabi on sushi. Why didn't
the waitress explain it!
I don't like sushi that much. I never take you to eat sushi. I
like meat. I can cook chicken katsu. Pork katsu and beef katsu
too. Yummy! Neal, I can cook for you to make up your accident.
I can go to the US and cook for you. You sell good pork at your
son's place, right?
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Re: My first taste of Japanese food...
By: NealC Date: April 13, 2019, 11:28 am
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I would love to go to Japan one day and we could certainly come
and visit but I would not want you to have to cook! We could go
out for Katsu :-)
The guys in the crew ate at the restaurant and brought a plate
back to me. So there was no one to instruct me!
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Re: My first taste of Japanese food...
By: Truman Overby Date: April 13, 2019, 11:31 am
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I won't eat sushi. They can call it whatever they want. They can
call it the Pill That Reverses Aging, but to me it's fish bait.
I don't eat fish bait.
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Re: My first taste of Japanese food...
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 13, 2019, 12:11 pm
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Jerry, I don't want to tell you what real fish bait is. Oh,
Americans fish in the sea and river. You know it, too.
Anyway,
Don't eat sushi either if you want to keep America great.
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Re: My first taste of Japanese food...
By: Terecia Date: April 14, 2019, 7:30 am
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I heard Westerners are afraid of the idea of eating raw
food.
I prefer Sashimi to Sushi, just because Sushi has vinegared
rice with it. While Sashimi (刺身) is thinly sliced,
raw food. It is said that it's one of the most famous dishes in
Japanese cuisine. It has seafood as the most common meat which
goes with it. The slices of raw seafood are often arranged at
the top a bed of shredded daikon and garnished with shiso
leaves.
I used to like eating Sashimi, especially Sake (Salmon
さけ), sometimes Maguro (Tuna
マグロ) and Tako (Octopus タコ).
They are rather expensive.
I read that salmon used for sashimi has been “super frozen”
at minus 40[sup]0[/sup]Celcius.
The process kills worms where fish are the host but doesn’t
break down the flesh, so the meat remains fresh.
Do you know that there's an etiquette on how to eat sashimi
properly? Never mix the wasabi into the soy sauce. You should
put an appropriate amount of wasabi on the sashimi, then dip it
into the soy sauce before eating it.
Hopefully, one day you won't abhor the Japanese raw food :)
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Re: My first taste of Japanese food...
By: Aliph Date: April 14, 2019, 8:08 am
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[quote author=Terecia link=topic=969.msg14395#msg14395
date=1555245039]
I heard Westerners are afraid of the idea of eating raw
food.
[/quote]
Please don’t mix up Americans with the whole “western world”. In
Europe there is a long tradition of eating raw fish. The
Northern Europeans eat raw fish (Hering) in some vinegar sauce
and Salmon made Graavad Laks.
The French eat Tartare, raw beef meat with lot of spices and
onion. They make it also with raw fish.
The Italians eat Carpaccio, very thin slices of raw beef with
Parmesan cheese, fennel and olive oil. They make it also with
fish.
And Sushi/Sahimi are a big fad among young Europeans.
And in Peru there is Ceviche, raw fish marinated in lime sauce.
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Re: My first taste of Japanese food...
By: Terecia Date: April 14, 2019, 8:14 am
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[quote author=Sofia link=topic=969.msg14398#msg14398
date=1555247295]
Please don’t mix up Americans with the whole “western world”. In
Europe, there is a long tradition of eating raw fish. The
Northern Europeans eat raw fish (Hering) in some vinegar sauce.
The French eat Tartare, raw beef meat with a lot of spices and
onion. They make it also with raw fish.
The Italians eat Carpaccio, very thin slices of raw beef with
Parmesan cheese, fennel and olive oil. They make it also with
fish.
And Sushi/Sashimi is a big fad among young Europeans.
And in Peru, there is Ceviche, raw fish marinated in lime sauce.
[/quote]
Pardon for my ignorance. I totally forgot about Dutch raw
Herring. My in-laws love them when they lived there.
Thank you for the information. I'll make sure to avoid
using the term Westerners when refers to a specific nation.
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