Japanese people only cook PB&J at home. Then they cut it into little bits and eat with chopsticks. And they only drink sake from big giant porcelain urns. - Tad, better than boredom
It's also a very rare treat for most Japanese people - Eric Schlissel
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Unless you're a sushi chef. I lost my first girlfriend in college to a sushi chef. How do you compete with a guy who wakes up at 5 am to search out amazing food? - Mitchell Tsai
it's cheaper in restaurants too. try Sushiland :) although it's not as authentic. - ~C4Chaos
i'm black and my husband's romanian/hungarian, but we used to have nigiri sushi at home and just the rice alone is time consuming. we thought, 'no way in hell are people in japan doing this every night', so now we have sashimi and other regular japanese foods all the time. - Anika Malone
but are born with ninja skills. watch out! - Rodfather
wait a min.... i've made sushi and it wasn't all that hard. (but of course it was veggie... no fancy rare fish) - Ňicķ
Sushi at home = Do Not Want! The only thing we make at home are 1. oinari (tofu pocket sushit) 2. temaki (handrolls) 3. battera (saba pressed sushi) NO California rolls! - Mona N.
My mom likes to make cut rolls. I like to eat sashimi fresh from the grocery store. Sushi is too much work. - Mitchell Tsai
tamaki isn't sushi? (in the broad american sense of the word) - Ňicķ
Temaki or handrolls we do at home, are not the temakis you see at sushi restaurants. We actually have 'temaki' parties, where the neta (sashimi), nori (seaweed), shari (sushi rice), are out on a table and we all make our own :) - Mona N.
I've made some good sushi at home but only because I love "cooking" and I love sushi.. just to try... but yeah, my pathetic efforts have never come remotely close to the great sushi restaurant experience. - Anthony Citrano
This is what I've always thought 'home' sushi was. Inari and futomaki. Has egg, mushroom, cucumber, and other ingredients. Still takes time to make. The brown, scrotum looking thing is inari. Called them footballs as kids. http://www.flickr.com/photos/r... - Rodfather
ah well Mona, i guess that's what i was talking about. I think in general, most americans would consider that (handrolls) as sushi (in the gringo sense of the word) and would love for you to show them how to do just that much... not necessarily "real" sushi - Ňicķ
We do sushi at home. Well, vegetarian sushi. It's often easier than eating out with food-allergic kids. - Cyndy
Not do... did... it's too much work... @Cyndy thought it wasn't too much work because I had to do all the prep and she got to come in and just do the rolling / eating. - Jason Carreira
It is WAY too much effort. And it doesn't taste the same at home - Mona N.
Australian sushi rolls are so simple and easy to make at home - and very cheap when you are on that 'killer' budget - Chris Loft
What in the Sam's Hill are Australian Sushi Rolls, dare I ask - Mona N.
And oddly enough, my caucasian father used to make sushi all the time when I lived there. - Nick Austad
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Temaki parties sound like a hell of a lot of fun. Hmm... *plans next dinner party* - Stellina
Stellina: They most definitely are! I don't know where you live, but Japanese supermarkets sell a lot of fresh sashimi :) - Mona N.
It doesn't seem like sashimi would be that hard to make.. or nigiri for that matter... sashimi is all about having a good piece of fish and cutting it well, right? We have "sashimi grade" fish at our grocery store... I've been tempted to try it. The first sushi I had that I actually liked was some fresh salmon and tuna that a friend cut into cubes for me. I had had a bad first experience with sushi years before but that made me decide I loved it. - Lindsay Donaghe
Well it takes YEARS to perfect the kniving skills to properly cut the fish, years to learn how to properly cook and flavor the rice, and nigiri making? Takes at least 3-5 years to perfect. It's an art, a profession, a craft, in my culture :) - Mona N.
the japanese heritage in me says trying to make sushi at home would insulting to the chef that trained many years... - Jason Kaneshiro
From having been at various times heavily into temari, kumihimo, seed-bead work and Aikido, I've noticed that almost everything the Japanese do is turned into a craft at least and an Art at most. The attention to detail is astounding and so is the (traditional) amount of repetition and honing needed to consider yourself graduated to any recognized level of expertise. It's an endearing if intimidating quality of the culture. - Lindsay Donaghe
I don't get what the big deal is, everybody knows ramen > sushi anyway... - Raymond
i wouldn't suggest anyone try to make sushi rice at home. that's labor intensive and my husband decided to do it while i pregnant, which meant the mirin smells killed me, ergo i almost had to kill 'him'. thankfully, after a small island's worth of rice he gave up. - Anika Malone
