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Sushi

Didn't notice your location! Aww...painful. Think I would rather have the "bad reaction"! What happened? Thing is; they had nothing to loose and probably played their hearts out. The Springboks on the other hand had everything at stake, bit like us and Fiji last night. :?
 
Glad someone in the thread gave a clue as to what this is about :)

I don't follow or understand rugby so it went straight over my head!

Commiserations on the loss anyway!
 
Sashimi is the raw fish element. Sushi is the rice with fish or other things, common parlance lumps them al together though.

Big fans of both in this house, love the raw salmon strips dipped in soy and wasabi.

In term of the rugby, [emoji2] never take your opponents for granted!

Cheers
Mark
 
I used to say how much I like sushi, but then I went to Japan. Business trip, so all on expenses and we ended up at a very fancy restaurant for lunch one day and I decided to have the top of the range sushi platter. Well, I think I ate about a quarter of it before I realised that if I ate any more I was going to be seriously ill. Obviously, it wasn't the sushi rice, but goodness knows what exotic delicacies were on top of it!

Ever since then I have been convinced that what I enjoy so much in 'the west' is a bit like chicken tikka masala or tex-mex food, an interpretation of the real thing but not the real thing itself. But has anyone else experienced sushi (or sashimi) in Japan? Maybe I just ordered the wrong thing.

Terry.
 
I'm a fan of both sashimi and sushi and having watched the incredible last 10 minutes of the game against the Springboks have a sneaking suspicion the Japanese may be adding Rugby to their list of things they're good at. Their determination was an inspiration.
 
A vegetarian? Moi? Naaaahhhh... I like my bacon too much :) .

Presentation is so important to me when I choose my food. Anything which looks as if it's been under-prepared will revolt me. I accept that foods such as sushi and escabeches can take a lot of preparation by highly skilled chefs but the appearance is paramount to me. Something which looks like roadkill wearing a tiara is not welcome on my plate. It's as much a confidence trick on the paying public as nouvelle cuisine was. I don't want people playing with my food and then expecting me to eat it! Fish belongs cooked in crispy batter, not raw in a confection of rice and seaweed.
 
Andyp":2gjva04j said:
Gill":2gjva04j said:
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Damn you both !! I'm now drooling over the keyboard. As SWMBO is coeliac I can't remember the last time I had fish and chips. :(
 
Fish 'n chips is one of those things that make a trip back to the UK worthwhile. :D On a related subject I have yet to find malt vinegar over here.
 
RogerS":1x9dodcl said:
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Gill":1x9dodcl said:
...... Fish belongs cooked in crispy batter......
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Damn you both !! I'm now drooling over the keyboard. As SWMBO is coeliac I can't remember the last time I had fish and chips. :(
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There's a chippy not far from me Roger that does taste fr....I mean gluten free fish and chips. :)

A friend who is coeliac goes there and having only been diagnosed in the last couple of years has the benefit of being able to compare traditional with gluten free and both her and her husband(who isn't coeliac) assure me that the gluten free compares very favourably.

Maybe you need to venture up into the technologically and culinarily advanced North to get your fix... :P

Cheers
Mark

EDIT: Here you go, might find one on here
 
I love fish in whatever form it comes in and how it's cooked though cannot stand malt vinegar.
Why folks pour it, on with tons of salt - it takes all the real flavours away!

When we first moved south we couldn't find any chippy that compared with the ones in Yorkshire ( who used to use beef dripping). But a few yrs ago a local one was taken over and became award winning and beats the ones in my old home town hands down [emoji3]

We also have a Rick Steins now but not cheap.
And a HFW Kitchen.

Rod
 
RogerS":td8b243j said:
Andyp":td8b243j said:
Fish 'n chips is one of those things that make a trip back to the UK worthwhile. :D On a related subject I have yet to find malt vinegar over here.
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Intermarche?

Super U ?

Is Everything English in Ploermel still going?

http://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/sarsons-malt-vinegar ship worldwide
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It is a regular on our shopping list of the UK when we visit so I do not need to pay their delivery charges.

As for the buying proper vinegar in the shops here, there is every kind of wine and fruit vinegar imaginable but not good old malt. BTW never on the fish just the the chips.
 
I'm a Yorkshireman and can echo the bitter disappointment of moving South to find that they wouldn't know how to fry fish n chips if their lives depended on it!! There was a fish n chip shop called Raynards that was walking distance from our gaff in the old days and every Friday night, traditional as you like, off Mum would toddle and bring it back and we'd eat it out the newspaper with wooden two prong forks so she didn't have to do any washing up that night.

Beef dripping was always the secret which wasn't particularly secret and I've never fathomed why the heck the Southerners don't just........use beef dripping instead of oil....then their product would be as good. I mean its not rocket science is it and its well known that Southern fish n chips don't touch those in Yorkshire. Weird regional discrepancy where even after 5 decades they still don't appear to have learned a simple trick to vastly improve the flavour of their product and (I have no doubt) increase their turnover.
 
Rob":1pxod2d4 said:
Beef dripping was always the secret which wasn't particularly secret and I've never fathomed why the heck the Southerners don't just........use beef dripping instead of oil
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Perhaps its because we know that arteries are better at transporting blood when they are not full of atherosclerotic plaques? :D
 
StevieB":2j07ea8a said:
Rob":2j07ea8a said:
Beef dripping was always the secret which wasn't particularly secret and I've never fathomed why the heck the Southerners don't just........use beef dripping instead of oil
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Perhaps its because we know that arteries are better at transporting blood when they are not full of atherosclerotic plaques? :D
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So the Southerners are quite happy to munch through several metric tonnes of McBurger per annum but couldn't possibly entertain any of that nasty deep fried artery blocking stuff :-) Yep...it's clearly the capital of food intelligence :-)
 
I used to work in Corby, (Midlands) an ex steel working town with a huge number of Scottish workers who moved south with the steel works. They kicked up such a fuss that their home town delicacies were not on offer in Corby that it was raised at management level with the steelworks. The delight? Deep fried Mars bar from a chippy... Mmmm Nice! I jest not. Incidentally the town also had the highest incidence of heart disease in Western Europe. :eusa-hand:
 
I think the Scots have been the world leaders in artery blocking stats for a great many years.
 
While on the subject of fast food, we also have a visiting mobile burger bar - with a difference : char grilled top-quality local raised free range limousin beef, salads and spuds from a local bio grower and wholemeal buns from our local baker. Dont know what he fries his chips in, but they taste OK. Very good indeed.
 
That sounds fab. There is definitely a trend of more up market fast food creeping out of the woodwork. All sorts of amazing vans selling goodies in London. This summer we took the kids camping to Dorset and Eweleaze farm has a mobile gourmet pizza van where the pizzas are cooked in a wood fired oven....complete with rickety bendy flue pipe snaking out of the van. Absolutely brilliant and the taste was out of this world (as was the price I have to say). This particular campsite also has a fresh bakery on the premises and a farm shop with everything produced on that farm or the local ones. You're woken to the smell of fresh baked croissants and petit Pan au chocolate at 7am (in Dorset!!). Who says camping is a cheap holiday :-)
 
Wizard9999":2b7wixnh said:
But has anyone else experienced sushi (or sashimi) in Japan?
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Yep, same as RogS. If memory serves, we were both there at the same time but in different locations.

Sashimi (the fish bit) is Japan is fandaby and it's the only place worth eating it. I've had Japanese nosh in the UK a few times and there's no (imo) comparison.

This pic was taken in Kanazawa at one of their 'endless belt' restaurants and I was reliably informed by our guide that this town on the north coast has some of the best sashimi in Japan.



SWIMBO, who initially mentioned that she wasn't going to eat raw fish, actually ended up putting away more than me - Rob
 
A note on Fast Foods - if ever in this part of the world, avoid anything that looks like the big M.
They do these pencil thin chips that taste like artificial cardboard potato.

Steers do a good burger and with hand cut fried chips (in oil)

Spur do a good burger... Become very expensive.

Cheers
Phil
 
Mmmmmm..... chips.
Mmmmmm..... burgers.

I found that slightly undercooking a potato in a microwave, then chipping it and tossing the chips in paprika-laced oil whilst still warm and finally roasting in the oven makes fabulous oven chips. Not as tasty as chips deep-fried in dripping (what is?) but healthier and also much cheaper than commercial oven chips.

Another culinary tip... stand spring onions upright in the fridge with their roots in a little water; they'll stay fresher for much longer. This also works with celery.
 
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