Some Insight into Sushi & My Personal Experiance

A couple of my friends and I decided to do dinner a few nights ago, we are huge sushi lovers esp. since many of us tend to associate sushi with the low-calorie factor (plus i had a big lunch). Whether it is as healthy as sushi lovers claim, it sure tastes good and beats eating the typical stir fry with rice. For those who are interested in calorie counting and looking up the nutrition information i normally use About.com: Health: http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/search.php?search_type=foods&searchpro=sushi

Before i talk about my meal, i wanted to share a quick insight into the history of sushi. The type of sushi rolls in the states are rather different than the rolls in Japan. There are a number of rolls that were created in the states to appeal more to the Westerners and Vegetarians, to name a few: the California roll, the Spider roll and the Philadelphia roll. The oldest form of sushi does not even resemble sushi today as the fish was taken out of the rice, only the fish was consumed and the rice was discarded. The contemporary version, internationally known as "sushi," was invented at the end of the Edo period, a.k.a. the beginning of the early modern period of Japan. Hanaya Yohei invented sushi and changed the preparation method by rolling both the rice and the fish together, which became an early form of fast food. Who knew sushi was considered a fast food, def. not similar to the forms of fast food we have today!

Back to my meal, we dined at "Little Tokyo" a small sushi joint in North County, San Diego. I am a huge tuna fan and almost always get the spicy tuna rolls (as a starter)... I noticed with the typical rolls you could order them spicy or not spicy, which is always nice to have that preference. I ordered mine spicy! I also ordered the Fire Roll which consists of spicy krab & cucumber topped with spicy tuna (gotta have my tuna!) The rolls were prepared perfectly and arranged on a platter with wasabi and gari (sweet pickled ginger), i always use the low sodium soy sauce (green cap on bottle) as i find the regular soy sauce (red cap on bottle) too salty. The rice was neither too sticky nor dry. And of course, i had a glass of plum wine which compliments the tuna rolls very well. The nice thing about the cut rolls is you can easily share with your friends, which allows you to get a little taste of something you might not normally try. I left the restaurant feeling full but not stuffed and rather satisfied, i guess that's the beauty of eating sushi.

The cost of the food was fairly priced, although Little Tokyo wouldn't be on the top of my 3 favorite sushi places, it is def. a place i would dine at again. I will undoubtedly be posting more blogs on my sushi insights, until than...

Happy Grubbing!