Next, we ask a Japanese designer who also lives and works in Vancouver, confirming what our first interviewee felt about sushi in Canada. I'm the only one who wholeheartedly eats salmon and tuna nigiri. In contrast, sushi shops abroad often offer an all-you-can-eat buffet of popular Japanese cuisine such as fried foods, teriyaki, Japanese-style barbecue, noodles, and so on, and the nigiri sushi is limited to salmon and tuna. He says that he is enjoying such interesting gourmet episodes, but insists that Japanese sushi needs to be properly distinguished from "international" sushi - a common sentiment shared by many of his compatriots.
Japanese take extreme pride in their food culture, and skilled chefs are highly respected. As Japanese food culture expands overseas, there is a question over whether chefs abroad are faithfully trained and able to offer "authentic" Japanese dishes.
Back in , the Japanese government even proposed introducing a system of accreditation for restaurants overseas serving "authentic" Japanese cuisine - an act which drew widespread mockery and inspiring the " sushi police" barb before being quietly taken back. Nevertheless, this sentiment remains in the Japanese consciousness. And in the case of this Japanese expat, it's not from memory.
The freshness of the toppings, the variations, the vinegared rice — being able to taste and feel the nuance of such ingredients is a given, but she also states that the Japanese taste can discern with what techniques skilled sushi chefs season and prepare their creations. Especially wasabi-flavored flying fish roe and pickled mackerel with roe seem to be very delicious.
He tells us about his sushi experiences in Hawaii and Palau. He says that he had the impressions that the standards for sushi are high both in Japan and abroad. However, when he went to a sushi shop in Hawaii, he noticed that the taste and texture of the rice were different from Japan. The rice is called shari in sushi lingo and makes up more than half of a piece of nigiri sushi. It goes without saying that it is of major importance.
In our next questions, we asked survey participants to select their most and least favourite sushi types. According to our survey results, the most popular sushi type is Toro nigiri , the fatty, more expensive part of tuna.
At the same time, only 9 percent indicated that they dislike Toro. On the second place of our sushi hit list follows Uni sea urchin with 32 percent. The creamy, brown sea urchin with the strong flavour that is usually served as a gunkan sushi is one of a few sushi types which is at the same time loved by many and disliked by almost as many.
For Uni is also placed second in our list of most disliked sushi type with 28 percent. Ranked third in our list of most favourite sushi types is Amaebi raw shrimp; nigiri with 31 percent, followed by Ikura salmon eggs; gunkan with also 31 percent.
The survey results show minor differences between the genders. Sushi types more popular among women than men are Amaebi raw shrimp , Ikura salmon eggs and Sake salmon. On the other hand, Toro and Maguro tuna , Uni sea urchin and Anago eel are more popular among men than women.
Furthermore, many more women responded to dislike certain sushi types than men: Uni, for example, is disliked by as many as 37 percent of the women, while it is unpopular among only 19 percent of men.
In Japan , there are four main types of sushi that are commonly served: maki, sashimi, nigiri and chirashi. Most sushi restaurants in Japan now have two styles of seating available for guests — tables and chairs, as well as tatami floors low tables with cushioned floors.
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