Josh Allen and sushi

[JakeFrommStateFarm]

18 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

Atlanta is 4 hours from the ocean and we have great sushi places.

I enjoy eating grocery store sushi from Krogers.  Its cheap and good

 

Sushi is very expensive to eat and it takes alot of it to fill you up.

[JP51]

Definitely a difference in something caught frozen and shipped than something that was swimming a few hours ago... I can imagine that the grade is better...  I am in Fla, love grouper and oysters... had them many places... but there is nothing better than it here just off the boat. 

[Jauronimo]

5 minutes ago, WhitewalkerInPhilly said:

For what it's worth, there's a Japanese place on the same block as my work, which is rubbing right up against Camden NJ.

 

They've made the regional James Beard list three times in the last seven years. My wife grew up with a friend whose Dad is one of the sushi chefs there and it's still a family run place where the old timers are sadly looking at retiring within then next few years.

 

*Ahem*

 

My point being that you don't need to have immediate ocean access to have good sushi. 

 

Ocean access is largely irrelevant in most locales.  The fish you're eating are not likely to be locally caught.  

 

I'm looking at an omakase menu from a high end place in Houston and its Japanese sea bream, japanese amberjack, japanese mackerel, uni and salmon roe from Hokkaido, Norwegian lobster, unagi from Japan, and tuna providence unknown.  We are right on the Gulf but none of these fish are local.  Any high end sushi spot is sourcing from all over the world and has some kind of connection to the Toyosu fish market in Japan.

[Dukestreetking]

"If you knew Sushi, like I know sushi..."

 

Been Nihon de wa many times, but mostly Tokyo I admit. Lucky enough to have some local female friends (err, the unpaid type) take me to the right places. Always off-the-charts delicious.

 

@bigK14094: agree... whatever you do, don't add soy or wasabi. It's presented as meant to be consumed, sans condiments.

 

@BarleyNY: agree... Fuji Grill Maple is pretty damn good. Not tried the one in NF near me, so reserve judgement.

 

@Big Turk: little older than you but also a workout fiend. Anyway, go for the sashimi brother: it's like mainlining high density protein/good fats w zero carbs. Sweet, sweet muscle juice, legal variety.

 

Expose ends.

[Logic]

It's not that decent sushi can't be had in WNY, I'm sure. It's just that the sushi one can get in the pacific Northwest is, as a rule, pretty much always going to be superior.

It's like asking "can't I get a good garbage plate or beef on weck outside of western New York?". And the answer is that yes, maybe you can. But it's almost certainly not going to be as good as one you get in WNY. It's just not.

Each region has its regional culinary delicacies. In Seattle, fresh seafood and fresh sushi and great Asian cuisine in general are top of the list. 

Edited Monday at 06:52 PM by Logic

[BuffaloBill]

12 hours ago, The Helmet of said:

Josh said in the postgame interview that he enjoyed sushi 🍣 in Seattle the night before the game and he’s not able

to get it very often in Buffalo. 
 

Isn’t there any place serving quality sushi in the area? Can’t he have it delivered from Toronto? We need to keep QB1 happy. Especially if it means getting off to a hot start.

 

P.s., I love Wegman’s but I’m assuming he wants something of a higher quality… 

 

 

Sushi from any grocery store sucks. The rice is a very important component in sushi and it should not be refrigerated, hard and cold.  Grocery store sushi is to the real thing like McDonalds is to a well prepared steak house steak. There is that much difference.

[JP51]

16 minutes ago, Logic said:

It's not that decent sushi can't be had in WNY, I'm sure. It's just that the sushi one can get in the pacific Northwest is, as a rule, pretty much always going to be superior.

It's like asking "can't I get a good garbage plate or beef on weck outside of western New York?". And the answer is that yes, maybe you can. But it's almost certainly not going to be as good as one you get in WNY. It's just not.

Each region has its regional culinary delicacies. In Seattle, fresh seafood and fresh sushi and great Asian cuisine in general are top of the list. 

Exactly

[Saxum]

4 hours ago, Jauronimo said:

Almost all seafood is frozen on the boat before it reaches market.  And sashimi grade fish is frozen again to kill all parasites.  And then the fish is aged further until it reaches the ideal zone for texture and flavor.  You would not want to eat toro that was caught, butchered, and sliced same day because that would be some tough, bland tuna.  Its not at all uncommon to see dry aging fridges at high end sushi spots similar to what you might see at a steak house.  "Fresh" meat and fish is an enduring myth.  Unless you caught it or killed it yourself, nothing we eat is meeting any definition of fresh.  Aging, or controlled rotting, is the key to great meat, with few exceptions.

 

https://thejapanesefoodlab.com/fish-ageing-science/

 

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-prepare-raw-fish-at-home-sushi-sashimi-food-safety

 

What it neglects to address and many such articles / guides do (I have a friend who owns a very, very good sushi restaurant and her husband is a sushi chef trained in Japan) is sushi is NOT just fish - octopus, clams, etc are served with sushi and there are different issues.

3 hours ago, Jauronimo said:

Buffalo could probably support one decent omakase place.  12 seats, 2 seatings a night, Thurs- Sunday, $175 per head with booze extra.  Scarcity creates its own demand. 

 

It will fit perfectly with PSLs.

[CodeMonkey]

13 hours ago, The Helmet of said:

Josh said in the postgame interview that he enjoyed sushi 🍣 in Seattle the night before the game and he’s not able

to get it very often in Buffalo. 
 

Isn’t there any place serving quality sushi in the area? Can’t he have it delivered from Toronto? We need to keep QB1 happy. Especially if it means getting off to a hot start.

 

P.s., I love Wegman’s but I’m assuming he wants something of a higher quality… 

Wegmans is actually high quality, at least for this area.  I imagine anywhere where the fish is fresh out of the ocean is bound to be somewhat better though.

[Jon in Pasadena]

6 hours ago, Jauronimo said:

Definitionally, sushi is short grained rice seasoned with salt, sugar, and vinegar.  Every sushiya has their own seasoning blend.  

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Saxum said:

 

What it neglects to address and many such articles / guides do (I have a friend who owns a very, very good sushi restaurant and her husband is a sushi chef trained in Japan) is sushi is NOT just fish - octopus, clams, etc are served with sushi and there are different issues.

 

It will fit perfectly with PSLs.

 

 

Thank you, it drives me nuts how many Americans think "sushi" = "raw fish".   It isn't.   

 

Sushi, like Jauronimo said, is literally "vinegared rice".

 

It is *often* topped with raw fish, but like Saxum said, there are many, many other things that are also used. In addition to the ones mentioned already there's cooked fish, cooked beef, raw beef, horsemeat, whale meat, cooked eels (freshwater and saltwater), tamagoyaki (kind of omelette), squid, scallops, oysters, crab, shrimp, sea urchin, pickled cucumbers, etc. etc....

 

And in my experience it's not eaten all that often in Japan. Mostly just a treat for special occasions.

 

One of the main reasons you want to go to a "higher-end" place rather than a gas station for sushi, is that the former will have sushi chefs that are trained to identify signs of possible parasites in the raw varieties of toppings, and discard those.  Been eating sushi for >40 years and never once had any health issues.

 

 

Edited Monday at 09:07 PM by Jon in Pasadena

[NickelCity]

Wonder where he went.

[Captain Caveman]

13 hours ago, DallasBillsFan1 said:

Isn't it risky for QB1 to be eating sushi before a game?  Or any football player really.

Probably just as likely to come down with food poisoning at Duffs (or insert your favorite wing place here) before a game

[hondo in seattle]

On 10/28/2024 at 11:52 AM, Logic said:

It's not that decent sushi can't be had in WNY, I'm sure. It's just that the sushi one can get in the pacific Northwest is, as a rule, pretty much always going to be superior.

It's like asking "can't I get a good garbage plate or beef on weck outside of western New York?". And the answer is that yes, maybe you can. But it's almost certainly not going to be as good as one you get in WNY. It's just not.

Each region has its regional culinary delicacies. In Seattle, fresh seafood and fresh sushi and great Asian cuisine in general are top of the list. 

 

Agree.

 

When I'm in Buffalo, I eat mostly wings, beef-on-weck, pizza, and Polish food.  Buffalo excels at these.  

 

When in Seattle, I tend to eat Asian food - in all its amazing diversity.  And for some reason, Seattle has a lot of great gourmet ice cream shops, too. 

 

When in Kansas City, I eat KC barbecue.  And so on.   

 

Once on a visit to Davao, my wife's hometown in the Philippines, her friends decided they wanted to treat me to lunch at an American restaurant.  It was a kind, thoughtful gesture.  But the place had pizza, burgers, tacos, and so forth and unsurprisingly none of it was very good.  I, of course, expressed my appreciation but, in truth, when in the Philippines, I want to eat what they're good at: lechon, adobo, crispy pata, Addidas, etc.  

[Saxum]

My wife is from Hong Kong and when she came over to get married we went to my favorite Chinese restaurant in North Buffalo by UB.  The owner and his family knew me and occasionally stopped by North Buffalo Food Coop where I worked when they ran out of items.   I went in and they waived hello to me for I had not been there for a while for I had moved to Northern Virginia for work.   Then they waived when my mother came in for occasionally I'd buy her lunch.  Then my new bride came in, she held my hand and they pointed at her and me and I nodded.

 

My wife had said before that they would not cook real Chinese but she loved everything they had and they were just a mostly takeout restaurant with a few stools.

 

You can find good ethnic food as long as they do ruin recipes by trying to adapt to American tastes.

[Dan in Owego]

When in Rome😋

[Augie]

3 minutes ago, Dan in Owego said:

When in Rome😋

 

Yes! They are known for their sushi!  😊

[RobbRiddick]