Three Things Meme - Thing One
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dorchadas for three things to write about - random things that I may or may not care about. The first of those was ... sushi!
I'm on the fence about sushi. On the one hand, even before I was vegan I didn't much like raw fish. So rolls with cooked shellfish were okay, except the nori. I still haven't developed a taste for seaweed. And given that in America, at least, there seems to be a preponderance of giant rolls held together with sheets of nori, I'm SOL.
However, I did have an opportunity many American sushi fans don't get, which was to go to Japan and eat sushi there. Yep, the fish is still raw. Yep, there's seaweed. Hmmm.
Japan is not an easy country to be vegan in. In the States the joke is "why does this have milk in it?" (hint: farm subsidies) whereas in Tokyo the joke morphed into "why does this have dashi in it." But I did discover that avocado rolls are good, and they do have a small variety of veggie rolls depending on where you go. We liked going to this one conveyor belt sushi place called Genki Sushi that had some pretty interesting concoctions. Fox is a big fan of spicy tuna rolls, whereas I developed a taste for, apparently, fatty tuna. I was slightly handicapped by my mere six months of language learning and almost total lack of previous sushi experience. So I tended to just tap on whatever rolls looked good and wash them down with cheap refills of white wine.
Back home I'm more likely to try to encourage my taste for seaweed by getting inari pockets when we go out. I've had plain ones where there is just a little ball of cooked sticky rice inside a tofu pocket, but the local sushi place tops theirs with a dollop of seaweed salad. I learned that certain fried rolls are just a way to recycle leftovers, and that cuke rolls are actually pretty good with a swirl of sriracha on them.
dorchadas for three things to write about - random things that I may or may not care about. The first of those was ... sushi!I'm on the fence about sushi. On the one hand, even before I was vegan I didn't much like raw fish. So rolls with cooked shellfish were okay, except the nori. I still haven't developed a taste for seaweed. And given that in America, at least, there seems to be a preponderance of giant rolls held together with sheets of nori, I'm SOL.
However, I did have an opportunity many American sushi fans don't get, which was to go to Japan and eat sushi there. Yep, the fish is still raw. Yep, there's seaweed. Hmmm.
Japan is not an easy country to be vegan in. In the States the joke is "why does this have milk in it?" (hint: farm subsidies) whereas in Tokyo the joke morphed into "why does this have dashi in it." But I did discover that avocado rolls are good, and they do have a small variety of veggie rolls depending on where you go. We liked going to this one conveyor belt sushi place called Genki Sushi that had some pretty interesting concoctions. Fox is a big fan of spicy tuna rolls, whereas I developed a taste for, apparently, fatty tuna. I was slightly handicapped by my mere six months of language learning and almost total lack of previous sushi experience. So I tended to just tap on whatever rolls looked good and wash them down with cheap refills of white wine.
Back home I'm more likely to try to encourage my taste for seaweed by getting inari pockets when we go out. I've had plain ones where there is just a little ball of cooked sticky rice inside a tofu pocket, but the local sushi place tops theirs with a dollop of seaweed salad. I learned that certain fried rolls are just a way to recycle leftovers, and that cuke rolls are actually pretty good with a swirl of sriracha on them.
