Grocery store sushi: Yuck or Yum? Chopsticks or finger food?

[Anonymous]

I brought my sister to my favorite sushi restaurant last week and asked her if it was better than the packaged stuff she gets from her grocery store. She would not concede the restaurant quality was far superior, but I would never eat prepackaged sushi/sashimi myself. Also, I was struggling with my chopsticks so she told me to just eat the rolls with my fingers (I know this is common but I fear choking from popping an entire roll at once). So I teased her for eating store bought sushi with her bare hands at home.

[Anonymous]

Huh?

[Anonymous]

Wegmans is the only supermarket sushi I've ever had that is decent at all. It's pretty good.

[Anonymous]

I don’t eat raw fish sushi from a supermarket, but I’ll eat a California roll or avocado roll, stuff like that. I use chopsticks.

Also, you don’t get to mock your sister for using her hands if you’re bad at using chopsticks yourself 🙏

[Anonymous]

I like sushi from Harris teeter and wegmans. Don’t care if it’s not the best quality, tastes good to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like sushi from Harris teeter and wegmans. Don’t care if it’s not the best quality, tastes good to me.

This, and IMO, it's better than my local place.

[Anonymous]

I would ask myself why I felt it was important for my sister to acknowledge the superiority of restaurant sushi. Then I would ask myself why I felt the need to mock her on what sushi she eats and how she eats it.

Was this your relationship dynamic as children?

[Anonymous]

You’re afraid of choking on sushi? But only if you eat it with your fingers? You think chopsticks will stop you from choking?

[Anonymous]

My Japanese teens will gobble any sushi, anywhere: one with her fingers because she's messy like that and one with his chopsticks because he's ODC like that.

And then they'll concede that certain of our favorite sushi chefs make better sushi than the supermarket versions, but not before spending money on ALL THE SUSHI.

And to be perfectly clear, OP, just because you're sitting down in a restaurant doesn't mean the sushi is fresher! It depends on the turnover and the professionalism of the chef. Sometimes hole-in-the-wall places make the freshest sushi.

[Anonymous]

The Japanese eat sushi with their hands, not chopsticks.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a fun family outing. Maybe she will take you to a winery to berate you about drinking mass market out of stemless glasses. Great time had by all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Japanese eat sushi with their hands, not chopsticks.

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If this is true, you have made me very happy.

I get a veggi sushi roll from my local sushi place. And I eat with my hands. I am trying to learn how to use chopsticks but it is so hard.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Our mutual teasing is fun and we have not laughed so much in a long time. We’ll always be young (and immature) around each other and that’s why I love having a sister. We can be mature grownups the rest of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a fun family outing. Maybe she will take you to a winery to berate you about drinking mass market out of stemless glasses. Great time had by all.

Adding this really isn't about sushi, it should be in the family relationship forum.

[Anonymous]

I eat both restaurant and supermarket sushi. Yes, the restaurant sushi is better quality and I love it. But the supermarket sushi gives you more bang for your buck. It's still good and much cheaper.

I eat with chopsticks because I'm Chinese and grew up eating with them. But if you aren't comfortable with chopsticks, you should do what works to eat. Since the Japanese eat sushi with their hands, I would guess that it's perfectly acceptable to eat sushi with your hands.

You have a very bizarre sense of right and wrong here. But at least you're laughing and enjoying yourself.