“Man, I’m hungry. What do I have left? Let’s see… cold rice, soy sauce, a few small chunks of fish from yesterday and there’s some seaweed growing in the fish tank? There has to be a way to turn this into something!”
In Japan, sushi is definitely one of the more expensive foods. You can’t really use yesterday’s fish as authentic sushi uses fresh fish which you can’t eat the next day for obvious reasons.
People started putting all kinds of fillings into sushi like chicken, beef, sausages, vegetables and whatnot. So… fresh fish ain’t a requisite for sushi anymore.
Isn’t that kimbap? I think sushi is raw fish or sashimi when using raw meat. And the Korean kimbap uses cooked meats. I could be wrong, but I think those are the differences.
oddly yeah. it’s not as good as the real deal shops but if I get a random urge or if I am strapped for time for lunch/dinner, i’ll go pick up one of the 15$ multi packs the place around me does
does enough for me to fulfill the craving for another few days when it pops back up again 😂
The supermarket near me has a few people preparing fresh sushi right there every day. That one’s great, I honestly like it better than the actual sushi place a few streets over
It’s pretty easy if you’re just doing rolls and depending on filling can be super cheap. The individual sushi I still mess up a few of em and I order the fish prepped cause I suck at it. Rarely make sushi, but rolls I make often cause it’s cheap, fast, and easy and impresses people.
OP, what region are you from? I remember sushi being really cheap in Sydney and it was considered a go-to for students. But here in the States it’s more expensive and (at least in Dallas and Denver) you don’t really want to go to anything less than a sit-down restaurant for it.
There was a sushiya or something like that in my cafeteria in Texas University so I’d get a spicy tuna roll every now and then for lunch. This was a decade ago.
Yeah we ordered the “good” sushi and it came to $90. Was not worth it, but I wanted to taste the good stuff at least once. I mostly prefer the eel, salmon, and California rolls and the quality of em at a buffet I like is enough for me.
Are these dollarydoos? I mean it’s cheap even if USD, damn, here we can really just get it delivered, and then it’s like 20/25€ per person kind of thing for run of the mill sushi. I think some of the more expensive supermarkets sometimes have small boxes but these are gross and not that much cheaper.
Still, I’ll always remember checking out the sushi stand at Mexico airport and figuring out after checking my conversions that they were 7/8$ PER SUSHI! I stopped complaining about my local prices after that.
I was gonna say where in Mexico would they charge that much, but an airport is always the priciest place for the most mid of meals. But I like how big Chinese and Japanese food has gotten in Mexico last I visited. Got my fill of sushi and enough to take back to others for 15 USD and it was delicious. I always buy snacks or meal before getting to an airport, those prices are always robbery.
Yeah I’ve only been once and I was way too busy being extatic about tacos to think about eating anything else but local stuff while I was there. These sushi and that stand actually looked really nice, which is why I was checking it out, but yeah I’m not about to drop Michelin star restaurant kind of money for airport sushi.
No No No ! I am definitely a shark. I uh… Am on diet, yeah ! I definitely like raw fish, mmmm, raw fish… Being vegetarian would be a disgrace to any shark.
Funnily enough, my country cuisine is very rich and varied. Did you know fishs have the most parasites of all animals. So much in fact that i heard some people that study parasitology stop eating fishes at all, let alone raw. Enjoy.
Saltwater fish that are generally consumed raw have less parasites than freshwater fish.
There’s also strict regulations about how the fish has to be kept frozen at certain temperatures for certain lengths of time to kill off all parasites.
I know shushi contain raw fish. Not all shushi but some does. Basically, am against uncooked meat of any kind. Just look what parasites people get by eating not cooked enough /raw pork and tell me if it’s worth the risk.
Think about it this way, sushi chefs know how to prepare raw fish safely in the same way any other chef knows how to prepare cooked meats safely. The risk is the same.
I’ve been eating sushi for 30 years, and the only time I’ve had food-poisoning I got it from a rotisserie chicken.
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