- BurningRiver ( @BurningRiver@beehaw.org ) English42•3 months ago
Nobody mixes wasabi with soy sauce. They mix horseradish paste that’s dyed green with soy sauce, because real wasabi is prohibitively expensive and most people have never actually had it, myself included.
- zod000 ( @zod000@lemmy.ml ) English4•3 months ago
I finally got a chance to have real wasabi at an expensive place. I did mix some in the soy sauce heh
- lars ( @lars@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•3 months ago
- LordSinguloth ( @LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca ) English26•3 months ago
Thats wild I’ll eat it however I like
- red_pigeon ( @red_pigeon@lemm.ee ) English9•3 months ago
Of course, the one that you make.
But if you are going to have it from a chef who says so at their restaurant, show some respect to their culture or else spend your money elsewhere.
- LordSinguloth ( @LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca ) English15•3 months ago
It’s my food. I bought it.
You don’t even know what my ethnicity is, don’t assume
- floquant ( @floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•3 months ago
So spending money gives you the right to disrespect cultures? Interesting
- BruceTwarzen ( @BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ) English7•3 months ago
If this disrespects your culture you have a fragile ass stupid culture that should be made fun of.
- floquant ( @floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•3 months ago
Or, a culture that values respect over individualism. To each their own, but to me willingly eating food wrong to belittle a culture isn’t “fun”, it’s just stupid and rude.
- red_pigeon ( @red_pigeon@lemm.ee ) English3•3 months ago
Bigot has entered chat
- red_pigeon ( @red_pigeon@lemm.ee ) English5•3 months ago
They are offering you a service and they follow a certain etiquette to have it, which is part of the service. If you can’t follow it, don’t be a customer.
- LordSinguloth ( @LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca ) English7•3 months ago
If the business is going to belittle me cause I like soy sauce with my sushi or eat it in two bites then rest assured they will not be earning my business regardless.
This stuff gets posted for white people to pretend they are virtuous over. We are laughing at you.
What if I said you would be disrespectful of american culture if you ate a burger or steak wrong? You would probably laugh because that would be insane.
- red_pigeon ( @red_pigeon@lemm.ee ) English2•3 months ago
You are assuming my ethnicity wrong, but I’ll go with it.
If I go to a restaurant where they specifically say it is disrespectful to eat something in a certain way, I would respect that. Or if I don’t agree with it, I won’t have food at their restaurant.
But I won’t go to the restaurant just to prove their way of eating is wrong. That is where your dumb attitude comes in. You are basically the equivalent of wearing clown clothes to a funeral just because you don’t agree with the etiquettes.
Learn to live among people, or live in your hole.
- LordSinguloth ( @LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca ) English1•3 months ago
Don’t disparage the noble profession of the humble clown. It’s a worthy skill and no other artist is diminished in that way. To do so is to disrespect the culture of Greek and Roman from which the clown originated. These people are likely much more highly trained and skilled than you are. Or even I am.
Honk
Kind of funny that of course you go off about respect for other cultures when it comes to soy sauce on sushi but then turn around and denigrate an entire theater culture of two ancient peoples.
You’re the bigot.
- red_pigeon ( @red_pigeon@lemm.ee ) English1•3 months ago
Ok. I see now, you are just talking crap with intentional misinterpretation just for the sake of argument.
I’m glad that you understood my point though, otherwise you won’t take this stupid tangent. Try to apply it in life.
This is my last comment on this. Have a nice day.
- Mammothmothman ( @Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca ) English25•3 months ago
How the hell do i eat it in 30 seconds when it all arives at once?
- sushibowl ( @sushibowl@feddit.nl ) English20•3 months ago
That’s not usually the case in a high-end sushi place. The chef will prepare your orders one by one and serve them out as soon as each is completed, so you will get one piece at a time.
- InternetUser2012 ( @InternetUser2012@midwest.social ) English5•3 months ago
I too am looking for the answer to this. Like are you supposed to eat the entire roll in 30 seconds? You’re not even tasting it at that point. I’m hoping 30 seconds per piece.
- Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) English22•3 months ago
Yeah I don’t believe most of these are real “big taboos” and will continue eating food the way it is most tasty to do, regardless, thanks.
- Microplasticbrain ( @Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee ) English15•3 months ago
Please shut the fuck up im trying to eat
- Ashelyn ( @Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English14•3 months ago
So am I supposed to flip the sushi over to dip the fish side in the soy sauce? That seems a bit awkward
- iaMLoWiQ ( @iaMLoWiQ@lemmy.ca ) English17•3 months ago
All within 30 seconds after waiting 20 minutes to get a tray of 4.
- tigeruppercut ( @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ) English7•3 months ago
It’s actually culturally appropriate to eat sushi with your hands if you want, making the turn over dipping easier. The only reason they say not to dip the rice side is the worry that it’ll soak up too much soy sauce and the fish flavor will be overpowered. But it’s not that big a deal.
The passing food from one set of chopsticks to another is pretty strictly avoided in Japan though. They pass bones like that as part of funerary rites so it’s pretty closely wired into Japanese people as a cultural taboo.
- iaMLoWiQ ( @iaMLoWiQ@lemmy.ca ) English6•3 months ago
But yes, you’re supposed to flip the nigiri 90+ degrees when dunking. It’s why I usually just stick to the sashimi. 9/10 chance I drop the chunk in the sauce. Can’t go wrong with that.
- abbadon420 ( @abbadon420@lemm.ee ) English11•3 months ago
What’s with the wasabi and soy mixing? I saw someone do that recently for the first time. He looked very confident at it and I assumed i had been doing it wrong all this time. Why is mixing a thing suddenly?
- ag_roberston_author ( @ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org ) English9•3 months ago
It’s just personal preference.
I learnt it from a chef in Japan in 2009, and I assume he had been doing it for many years at that time.
Generally, that’s something done at a sushi train restaurant where the dishes won’t have wasabi in them already. I’m guessing these notes are for a sushi restaurant where the chef prepares the sushi specifically for each customer, so if you wanted wasabi they’d put it in the sushi itself.
- tiredofsametab ( @tiredofsametab@kbin.run ) 9•3 months ago
People in Japan do it all the time. Ideally, the chef would get the proper amount of wasabi on everything and you wouldn’t need/want to do it, but that is not always the case. It is generally looked on more favorably to dab some wasabi on each piece rather than mixing, though.
- Wanderer ( @Wanderer@lemm.ee ) English5•3 months ago
My Japanese friend did this. I always wondered if you was meant to (I seen them do it on Jackass).
Since then I just assumed it was the right thing to do.
- MeThisGuy ( @MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ) English3•3 months ago
the one where Steve-O snorts the wasabi?
- Wanderer ( @Wanderer@lemm.ee ) English2•3 months ago
Haha yea.
I hadn’t seen wasabi before so I always remembered it and wondered what wasabi tasted like.
- h3ndrik ( @h3ndrik@feddit.de ) English11•3 months ago
And why not chew it off? Is it like in church where you’re not supposed to nibble your consecrated wafer?
I agree with the other things, though. And I feel like I’m supposed to repost the old “The Japanese Tradition” video on sushi: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bDL8yu34fz0 It’s awesome. (And since satire doesn’t always translate on the internet: It’s a spoof.)
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English14•3 months ago
Sushi is supposed to be bite-sized. In my experience this is not always the case in practice, but the idea is that you should just pop the whole thing in your mouth.
- 10_0 ( @10_0@lemmy.ml ) English4•3 months ago
Don’t chew it off because the rice will go everywhere. But if you’ve got a plate then your fine.
- Hugh_Jeggs ( @Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ) English4•3 months ago
Then your fine is what? How much?? I demand to know
- therealjcdenton ( @therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ) English9•3 months ago
Wasabi and soy sauce one is a lie. You are also supposed to eat ginger before and after every dish
- tigeruppercut ( @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ) English8•3 months ago
3 bucks for some extra wasabi and ginger?! That better be the real stuff for that price
- CaptnNMorgan ( @CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com ) English4•3 months ago
Real wasabi is way more expensive than $3.
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English7•3 months ago
please do not chew off your sushi
Wow, the Japanese must have much bigger mouths than me
- sushibowl ( @sushibowl@feddit.nl ) English8•3 months ago
It’s quite possible they simply make their sushi smaller, depending where you live. Americans tend to make things a size or two bigger than a lot of the rest of the world.
- angstylittlecatboy ( @angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com ) English6•3 months ago
My question is…how do you eat it within 30 seconds? I get that this type of etiquette exists in many different cultures but while I have never eaten sushi, I don’t exactly get how that one is even possible?
- Ekkosangen ( @Ekkosangen@lemmy.ca ) English4•3 months ago
The context of this sign being in a sushi restaurant would be the key here. In higher-end, “omakase” sushi restaurants, you’ll be served a set of sushi piece by piece as the chef makes it in front of you. Typically you’ll want to eat it as soon as it is placed on your plate.
- fubarx ( @fubarx@lemmy.ml ) English6•3 months ago
Don’t mix wasabi with soy sauce? So… chuck it into your mouth like a gumball?
- Chapelgentry ( @Chapelgentry@lemmynsfw.com ) English5•3 months ago
When I lived in Japan (around 15 years ago, so etiquette might have changed since then) it was common to take the fish off of the rice and dip it in soy sauce, then put it back on the rice bed in instances where it was just placed atop the rice. Likewise, it was perfectly fine to mix wasabi into your soy sauce.
I’ve done things that way since without any overt disdain, so I think these are generally good guidelines, but you can probably get away with doing some things your own way.
- Ibuthyr ( @Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•3 months ago
This seems like one of those higher end sushi counters, where you get one or two pieces at a time. You generally shouldn’t put rice in the soy sauce as the rice would fall apart. And you really shouldn’t pass the sushi with your chopsticks to another set of chopsticks. All of the other things are fine in an izakaya setting. A colleague of mine who was in sales and had to make sure to cater to our customer’s wishes was absolutely fine with mixing wasabi with the soy sauce for example. She one hundred percent knew about etiquette.