sushi newbie - educate me, please

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Food rules to live by:
1) don't drink wine out of a box;
2) don't buy milk that is not organice;
3) don't buy hamburgers from McDonald's;
4) don't eat grocery store sushi

OP--you sit down at the bar, this person could be next to you. You have been warned.

[Anonymous]

Which places buy their fish fresh at the morning fish market? And what days do they get them? Go to that kind of place on the day they get their fish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous



Which places buy their fish fresh at the morning fish market? And what days do they get them? Go to that kind of place on the day they get their fish.

Places are supplies by vendors 7 days a week and it's frozen!

[Anonymous]

I'd say salmon is an easy raw fish to start with. It's delicious.

Damn, why did I come to this thread? I'm pregnant and can't eat raw fish!

Good places to go for sushi in DC:
Kotobuki (casual)
Makato (expensive)
Sushi Taro (expensive)
Kaz sushi bistro (although haven't been for a while)

In VA:
Maruko
Kanpai
Sushi Yoshi

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous



Which places buy their fish fresh at the morning fish market? And what days do they get them? Go to that kind of place on the day they get their fish.

Places are supplies by vendors 7 days a week and it's frozen!

Um. All sushi in the USA is *required* by law to have been frozen at some point.

[Anonymous]

I love sushi and have cultivated a love of it in my kids, to justify eating it more often.

Things my 4-year-old twins love to eat at our neighborhood sushi restaurant:
Ikura (salmon roe)
Eel
Salmon
Tuna
Califonia roll
Tempura
Miso soup
Tuna or eel and avocado rolls
Sometimes octopus, but it's still new to them.
Sometimes shrimp, but the texture isn't as pleasing as salmon.

[Anonymous]

^^^OP, if you're still there, this raises a great point: Eel is actually a wonderful newbie sushi because it's served bar-b-qued, not raw. So it's one of the least exotic varieties. And you can weird out your DH while you eat it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I have a question -- why is Wegman's sushi not considered "fresh"? I watch them (humans) make it right in front of me and then they hand it to me... how is that less fresh than at a restaurant?

We don't have a Wegman's near us, so I've never seen this. Most grocery store sushi is pre-made by machine and arrives already packaged.

If they're making it fresh in front of you, that's terrific, I'm impressed. And if they had a counter where I could sit, inspect the fish under the glass, and eat it right when they hand it to me, and where they also served me beer, I might try that. But that would be a sushi bar.

Instead, they're putting it in packages for you to take home. By that time, it's not fresh. And if that package is already sitting in a cooler when you get there, then it's really not fresh.

Yes, at Wegmans they have a sushi station with two or three sushi chefs (or Asian looking people in little sushi chef uniforms anyhow) and whole pieces of fish (that you can look at -- don't know if you can "inspect" it exactly but it is right there for the world to see), whole vegetables, etc that they cut in front of you and use to fill the sushi rolls when the roll and slice them, then they put the sushi in the display case, or if you want they will hand it to you fresh.

[Anonymous]

Outstanding. I'd eat one while I shop.
If they add a stool and will bring me beer, I'd stay and eat.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for all of the advice. Side note - I've posted in other forums about emotional matters and never gotten as many responses as to this query

[Anonymous]

Emotional matters aren't as interesting as sushi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Outstanding. I'd eat one while I shop.
If they add a stool and will bring me beer, I'd stay and eat.

They actually had a seafood counter in the Fairfax store, where they had stools and you could get a glass of wine/beer.
I don't think they had enough people eating in-store, so its no longer there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emotional matters aren't as interesting as sushi.

You're awesome!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, at Wegmans they have a sushi station with two or three sushi chefs (or Asian looking people in little sushi chef uniforms anyhow)

ROFLMAO! You just made my day

Signed,
An Asian (but not a REAL Asian, just one of those Asian looking people in little white girl clothes)