Candy Sushi
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Candy Sushi
I like this concept, however, I cannot see how it could even taste decent. Thin rice cereal bars, fruit leather, Swedish fish with chocolate dipping sauce.
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Re: Candy Sushi
I don't really have a sweet tooth, so the point of art-sweets-for-their-own-sake is lost on me. There can't have been a real, discriminatory taste test. They're just trotting out a shovelful of the pop basics and kludging them together in a fashion that is only trivially referential to sushi. The reality is that it's just another vehicle for King Sugar; you could just as well grab a bag of it and pour it down your throat, for that matter. I suppose I should award points for creativity, but like I said, it's kludged, really. And the whimsy of little gummy-fishes doesn't trip my trigger that much. Make the nigiri toppings look like real salmon slices, etc., and we'd be on the path to some genuine artisanship.
There's to be a new sushi and robata bar in my stomping grounds come spring. Normally I'd look forward to it, but they've also got signs up promising pachinko, for crying out loud. There's nothing like advertising your ruin before you've even left the starting gate. I don't think I could bear dining in a clownish environment like that, and I expect I won't be the only one. But I'll check it out, at least once.
There's just no pleasing me today.
There's to be a new sushi and robata bar in my stomping grounds come spring. Normally I'd look forward to it, but they've also got signs up promising pachinko, for crying out loud. There's nothing like advertising your ruin before you've even left the starting gate. I don't think I could bear dining in a clownish environment like that, and I expect I won't be the only one. But I'll check it out, at least once.
There's just no pleasing me today.
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There was a pachinko bubble gum machine at a distant neighborhood grocery store where I grew up. Besides the very real possibility of getting your penny back (gold mine!) the visual appeal of watching the penny fall between the nails was more than worth it for me. I didn't even like bubble gum. I still don't.
I've seen pachinko parlors on TV. They're sad. And noisy. The pachinko bubble gum machine was a solitary isolated drama.
I've seen pachinko parlors on TV. They're sad. And noisy. The pachinko bubble gum machine was a solitary isolated drama.
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Imagine then, if you will, an environment of being forced to shout your order to the chef, and noshing while the joint clangs at you. This does not bode well.mutepointe wrote:I've seen pachinko parlors on TV. They're sad. And noisy.
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A new sushi place opened about three miles from us called Koya Sushi Too near the Seward restaurant, still haven't gone there, and I don't think they could surpass Saji Ya.
That is why I said I liked the concept, but being a function first kind of person I just cannot even begin to think of a way to make such a thing palatable, and thus worthwhile.Nanohedron wrote:the point of art-sweets-for-their-own-sake is lost on me.
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I haven't been there in ages. I miss the old interior, with the sushi part of the bar on the opposite side of the room; the layout was somehow sunnier that way. You don't get a complimentary appetiser-of-the-day any more, either. That rocked. Is the quality still good, and the portions generous?I.D.10-t wrote:A new sushi place opened about three miles from us called Koya Sushi Too near the Seward restaurant, still haven't gone there, and I don't think they could surpass Saji Ya.
I say it's a candy lovers' thing. Like those people who dress up their dogs and cats to look like lobsters and spiders and astronauts. Taste doesn't exactly come into it, there, either. I mean, strictly speaking; it's not really the point. So, so much for not playing with your food, too, for that matter.I.D.10-t wrote:That is why I said I liked the concept, but being a function first kind of person I just cannot even begin to think of a way to make such a thing palatable, and thus worthwhile.Nanohedron wrote:the point of art-sweets-for-their-own-sake is lost on me.
The much-dreaded "izakaya" I mentioned is to be called Masu. Look for it. If it's as bad as my imagination fears, I give it a couple of months.
Truthfully, theme bars are common in mega-urban Japan, and a pachinko bar wouldn't be out of the question, at least as a concept. But such bars tend to depend on a return clientele partial to the gimmick being pushed, and pachinko isn't part of our culture. I seriously see a non-starter, here.
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Re: Candy Sushi
We kind of picked and chose what we wanted so I cannot say anything about their proportions. I am not an expert on sushi, so take my preferences with a grain of salt, but I would bet that most of the sushi places get their fish from the same place (coastal seafood maybe?), what was remarkable was the way the rice on the nigiri went from a solid piece you could hold to almost instantly separating into individual grains once in the mouth. Their rice was really what impressed me the most.Nanohedron wrote:Is the quality still good, and the portions generous?
Sadly, with True Thia, The Himalayan, Bona, The Caspian, and other restaurants nearby, we rarely make it 10 miles from home when we want to eat out. The biggest exception is when we go to the Ordway and go to either Sakura or Tanpopo Noodle Shop. And yes, our dining is rather eclectic. Our cooking is even worse.
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Then, there's fish candy:
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"...But It's Harmless!"
There's marketing for you. Where's it sell best? The Faeroes?
There's marketing for you. Where's it sell best? The Faeroes?
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Re: Candy Sushi
Ok I'll bite, what is it? Where's the wasbi?
Wanderer wrote:I made this once.
It actually wasn't half bad.
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Rice Krispy treats, rolled up around gummy worms and swedish fish using fruit roll-ups/fruit leather. No wasabidwest wrote:Ok I'll bite, what is it? Where's the wasbi?
I used hershey's syrup for the soy.
I made them as a fun dessert for a pot-luck get together for a bit of whimsy.
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They do link nice. I would have to dismantle them to eat them. Foods that do not belong together should not touch.
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Mute, are you the height of fussy or what? They touch after you've eaten them. Their residual flavors touch in your mouth. You might as well stop bothering to even try to get away from it, concede, and merrily mash your sweet potatoes and fish together.mutepointe wrote:Foods that do not belong together should not touch.
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