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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   2397 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 26, 2024

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There is likely a genetic component to how much you enjoy certain kinds of food. Just like how some people find cilantro to taste like soap or Hershey's chocolate to taste like bile, there could be something just genetic that impacts your ability to enjoy sushi to the same degree that other people do.

Personally, I enjoy the fact that I can actually taste the fish when I eat sushi. I also find the sushi rice in Nigiri sushi to just be delicious in and of itself, combined with the fish it really elevates it to the next level for me. Technically, the rice is the most important part of the sushi, otherwise you'd just be eating sashimi if you wanted to focus on the raw fish. There's sushi with cooked fish, just eat the type that you like the most, although I find variety to also be an enjoyable experience and my goal when I go to a sushi restaurant is to try every piece at least once before getting seconds on the ones I enjoyed the most that day (except raw squid sushi, I never enjoyed this one in particular).

I think Makizushi sushi, which are the rolled type, are the one most people outside of Japan would think of when they think of sushi. In American sushi restaurants you'll typically find all types of rolls with a mix of ingredients like tempera shrimp, imitation crab, mayonnaise, avacodo, cucumber, etc, and I think these are more popular than actual nigiri sushi, because it fits a flavor profile more accustomed to the western palatte.

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