Do you get annoyed when people mis-use the ginger that comes with sushi?

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Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: tenshodo13
I remember when I went to Japan with 20 other people in 11th grade.

16 of them were white, 1 was black, 3 were asian ( including me)

My black friend and the asians ate normally. WE got chopsticks, ate the rice norammly, and just ate like any regular person.

EVERY single white person took soy sauce and drowned their rice in it, and complained there wasn't enough Soy Sauce. Every single meal started with asking where the danm soy sauce was. I remember thinking " How the hell do you people eat rice?" My secondary thought was " I bet you all believe that Chinese food is actual chinese food.." because I think thats the main reason why they do it. "American" Chinese food is salty as hell.</end quote></div>

What's wrong with soy sauce? Steamed rice basically has no flavor.

That's disgusting. It's like drenching your medium rare prime rib in A1 steak sauce.

It's a slap in the face. It's like opening Taco Bell in Mexico City and Panda Express in Beijing.

As for the sushi and ginger... ehhh? Do you realize that you can pretty much only get nigiri and temaki in Japan? It's obvious CA rolls are American, but besides that all those things that come in rolls like "spider rolls" and "lambada rolls" are fake beyond all belief.

Steamed rice HAS flavor. Rice from Chinese restaurants and south east Asian places is mostly "Jasmine rice." In Chinese it's "Xiang1 mi3" which means it has a pleasant smell. Jasmine rice is delicious and it can be eaten on its own. Japanese and Korean cuisines tend to use Sushi rice, which has smaller grains and is stickier. Do not confuse this with sticky rice that's used in Chinese rice rolls. Sushi rice can be bought at Costco under the Kohuko Rose brand. When properly cooked its texture is perfect although it lacks the aroma that Jasmine rice has.

White rice is the best thing in the world when mixed with any Asian dish. If you're splattering your rice with soy sauce, you should be asking yourself what the MSG and salt is for in all the other dishes.

Take for instance an overly American dish: Broccoli beef. That has sauce. Mix it with the rice, that's yummy. Do you need soy sauce on top of that?

Seriously. Soy sauce is basically for newbs. No one uses soy sauce on its own. The closest to soy sauce is pretty much soy sauce + wasabi. Cantonese cooking uses oyster sauce and fish sauce. Taiwanese people use soy paste which is infinitely tastier than soy sauce. Korean BBQ sauce utilizes soy sauce along with sugar and seasame oil. Sometimes a little beer is thrown in too.

Anyways, I think the OP is getting a little obsessed, but he might just be one of those people who insists on following cultures exactly. Stop getting pissed at him. Most of you non Asians replying need to understand a little more before jumping on him. At the same time, chillax OP.
 

Kanalua

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If it bothers you then say something, otherwise I don't really see what the problem is...My brother uses a couple of pieces to flavor the shoyu (soy sauce) & wasabi combo. It's pretty good and do it occasionally myself after tasting his once...
 

elmro

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Originally posted by: ColdFusion718
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Descartes
That's not as bad as people that try to drink the water from the finger bowl in some restaurants.</end quote></div>

LOL whaaaa???

wawaweewa!
 

ColdFusion718

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Mar 4, 2000
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Dude you're just a snob like all the other sushi snobs in the restaurant. You think your sh!t don't stink or something?
 

oiprocs

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Damn freedomsbeat212, you're getting a lot of sh** for this thread. Here's a :beer: for you.

In all honesty, I didn't even know that was the ginger's purpose! I don't think you'd be a tool if you told her what it was really used for; who gets mad when they acquire some more (and useful at that) knowledge? THAT person would be a tool.

Anyways, it makes no difference if you mention it or not. But if you truly want to, next time you catch her in the act, just smile at her until she notices, and then say in a fun way, "Hey genius, don't you know the ginger is for cleansing between rolls?" If she gets mad AND you were smiling, well that's just wrong.
 

LongCoolMother

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Hey freedomsbeat,

I understand what you're saying. Its akin to when I go to a very fine steak restaurant ($100 steak) and then see someone order a very nice cut of steak cooked well done.

It does make you cringe. Don't know if its quite the same with the ginger and sushi-- but i mean, yeah.
 

SampSon

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Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: SampSon
Because the whole point of good food is how it tastes going in. If you eat the ginger with the sushi you're ruining the taste.

Mabey both of you are too umm, ignorant to know what you're talking about?</end quote></div>

Or maybe, just maybe, they've tried it both ways and honestly enjoy it more when they eat the ginger with the sushi.

I suppose it's impossible that they could have a different opinion than you though. :roll:

ZV
I highly doubt either of them eat sushi with any regularity. I don't eat it regularly either, but I know traditional table manners.

The OP said that the friend eats every single piece with the ginger on it. Leading me to the idea that she doesn't know any other way. So how exactly would she know the difference from eating it with ginger and without ginger? How can someone have a differing opinion when they haven't ever experienced both sides of the issue? If they haven't tried the other way then they are ignorant to it. It that hard to understand?

Would you go to a good steak house, ask for it burnt to a crisp and then pick it up and eat it with your hands? No, probably not because that's bad manners regardless if you like it that way or not. Sure that may fly at Denny's, but not at any half decent restaurant I know of. It's manners, etiquette, whatever you want to call it. I'm sure many of you don't care about thoes things, but then again many of you don't know how to dress in a suit.

I'm not a sushi/food snob like you high strung freaks jumping down my throat think. Sushi chefs (real ones primarily in Japan) train to be master chefs for years and years on end. It's very big honor to become a sushi chef in Japan and they take it seriously. Many chefs can get offended by your actions as a customer. I'm sure that many of you really don't care about offending anyone, but just respect the fact that it's there.
 

mrSHEiK124

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Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
Hey freedomsbeat,

I understand what you're saying. Its akin to when I go to a very fine steak restaurant ($100 steak) and then see someone order a very nice cut of steak cooked well done.

It does make you cringe. Don't know if its quite the same with the ginger and sushi-- but i mean, yeah.

To be honest with you it really is; well cooked steaks have little to no flavor (texture issues aside), ginger topped sushi tastes like ginger and steamed rice.
 

krunchykrome

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Dec 28, 2003
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Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
A friend of mine has an annoying habit of using the pallet clensing bits of sliced ginger as a garnish, putting it literally on top of her sushi rolls. I've thought of correcting her but know that would embarassing her, but is everyone else in the restaurant noticing worse, would I be saving her of future embarassment by just mentioning it?

Why do so many people do this? It drives me batty!

Why are you so concerned about how she eats her sushi?

Think of it this way. If you bite your tongue and don't say anything, she might not shoot you down when you eventually tell her you like her.
 

blakeatwork

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Jul 18, 2001
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Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: vi_edit
If that pisses you off, then the fact that I use my fingers and a fork instead of chopsticks really has to chafe your ass.</end quote></div>

seriously, I'm not crying over this - i'm just midly annoyed. Remember, some sushi joints are upper crust affairs, expensive and the sort of place you dress up to go to - wouldn't you be annoyed if you go to a nice place and then someone you were with was sprinkling mints on her steak?

Well, if said person was footing the bill, then I really wouldn't much care what they did with their steak...

you don't have much of a footing for this mini-rant 'Beat... sorry...
 

ondarkness

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Nov 10, 2004
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Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: waggy
does she enjoy it? if yes then who gives a flying f***</end quote></div>

a) I don't think she knows better
b) I'm bored so I started a thread about something that was a mild annoyance to me.



my fav is eating it with bare hands as is more traditional.

but I'm guilty of dabbling with all that was described except the fork.
I hate using forks.

my favorite is using chopsticks with icecream.:thumbsup:
 

Tiamat

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Nov 25, 2003
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Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
Hey freedomsbeat,

I understand what you're saying. Its akin to when I go to a very fine steak restaurant ($100 steak) and then see someone order a very nice cut of steak cooked well done.

It does make you cringe. Don't know if its quite the same with the ginger and sushi-- but i mean, yeah.

All the steak restaurants I go to that offer 50+$ steaks do not offer warmer than med. rare cooking for these upperpriced steaks. The waiter calmly suggests a 20$ steak that can be cooked in that fashion.
 

DaShen

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Meh, how people eat food never really bothered me. Yeah that stuff is used as a pallet cleaner so you can taste the next type of fish, but I will actually buy the stuff even when I don't eeat sushi and eat it with rice or put it in a sandwhich. So... does that annoy you?
 

ColdFusion718

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You want to cleanse your pallet... how about drinking some water? If you can't clean it out with that, you've got some serious problems with your mouth.
 

loup garou

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Feb 17, 2000
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Wait...maki? Who ***** cares what she puts on maki? It's not like she's slapping it on top of $7 toro nigiri.
 

feralkid

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Jan 28, 2002
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Originally posted by: ColdFusion718
You want to cleanse your pallet... how about drinking some water? If you can't clean it out with that, you've got some serious problems with your mouth.




Wrong.

 

cKGunslinger

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Nov 29, 1999
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Originally posted by: DLeRium
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: tenshodo13
I remember when I went to Japan with 20 other people in 11th grade.

16 of them were white, 1 was black, 3 were asian ( including me)

My black friend and the asians ate normally. WE got chopsticks, ate the rice norammly, and just ate like any regular person.

EVERY single white person took soy sauce and drowned their rice in it, and complained there wasn't enough Soy Sauce. Every single meal started with asking where the danm soy sauce was. I remember thinking " How the hell do you people eat rice?" My secondary thought was " I bet you all believe that Chinese food is actual chinese food.." because I think thats the main reason why they do it. "American" Chinese food is salty as hell.

What's wrong with soy sauce? Steamed rice basically has no flavor.

That's disgusting. It's like drenching your medium rare prime rib in A1 steak sauce.

It's a slap in the face. It's like opening Taco Bell in Mexico City and Panda Express in Beijing.

As for the sushi and ginger... ehhh? Do you realize that you can pretty much only get nigiri and temaki in Japan? It's obvious CA rolls are American, but besides that all those things that come in rolls like "spider rolls" and "lambada rolls" are fake beyond all belief.

White rice is the best thing in the world when mixed with any Asian dish. If you're splattering your rice with soy sauce, you should be asking yourself what the MSG and salt is for in all the other dishes.

Anyone that compares $0.16 worth of steamed rice with a $75 cut of prime rib automatically loses any semblance of respect in regards to culinary discussion.

Putting soy sauce on rice is no more an affront than putting ice in a glass of water.

"ZOMG! the cook spent 2 hours getting that water to the perfect temperature and you've insulted him by adding ice cubes!" :laugh:

 

Linflas

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I made a little deal with myself long ago to only get annoyed when someone worries about what I do to food that is going into my mouth. Why the hell do you care what someone else does to food they eat? Unless they step on your foot and pop open your mouth like a trash can and stuff their food down it you have no business being annoyed at anything they do to their food.
 

BoomerD

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Like many of the posters before me, I get FAR more annoyed at people who think they can tell someone else how or what to eat...

I agree that MAYBE she doesn't know that it's meant to cleanse the pallete...in which case telling her politely would be a good thing...after all, sushi IS meant to be enjoyed...
However, if she tells you that she KNOWS how it's meant to be used, but prefers it this way...butt-out and let her enjoy her meal in the way she chooses...
 

hydroponik

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Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: vi_edit
If that pisses you off, then the fact that I use my fingers and a fork instead of chopsticks really has to chafe your ass.</end quote></div>

seriously, I'm not crying over this - i'm just midly annoyed. Remember, some sushi joints are upper crust affairs, expensive and the sort of place you dress up to go to - wouldn't you be annoyed if you go to a nice place and then someone you were with was sprinkling mints on her steak?

no, stop being a tool
 

Slikkster

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Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212

EXACTLY. We had a sushi boat - $60! But she put ginger on every damn piece, seemed like a waste. I just wonder if she doesn't know better, but I'll let her be. I'm not elitist, I just remember the times I've done stupid stuff (ordering steaks well done!) until friends told me better, and I appreciated it.

The Kinks had a song for people like you: Dedicated Follower of Fashion

I see this as totally symbolic of your need for acceptance by others, and your need not to be "embarrassed" by others (so YOU remain accepted). You need therapy, and not of the "aroma" variety. If you liked your steaks well-done, why would you let some "friends" talk you out of it? You're worried about some snobby waiter's impression?

P.S. WTF is wrong with the quoting system here nowadays?


 

AmpedSilence

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I like it with ginger on top. It's tasty. A little wasbi and soy sauce also. The flavors just play perfectly in your mouth. Damn, now my mouth is watering just from the thought of sushi.... damn you freedomsbeat.... damn you.
 
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Tex<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Slikkster
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
You'd be a toolbox for telling her but I think it's retarded to eat sushi with the ginger on it. It's supposed to get the taste out of your mouth so you can move onto a different type of fish and get the taste; if you're just downing ginger with every piece or roll then you're not going to taste anything but ginger, and you're wasting your money buying $15-20 plates of sushi when you could get $1 worth of Uncle Ben's and get a mouthful of rice instead.</end quote></div>

EXACTLY. We had a sushi boat - $60! But she put ginger on every damn piece, seemed like a waste. I just wonder if she doesn't know better, but I'll let her be. I'm not elitist, I just remember the times I've done stupid stuff (ordering steaks well done!) until friends told me better, and I appreciated it.</end quote></div>

The Kinks had a song for people like you: Dedicated Follower of Fashion

I see this as totally symbolic of your need for acceptance by others, and your need not to be "embarrassed" by others (so YOU remain accepted). You need therapy, and not of the "aroma" variety. If you liked your steaks well-done, why would you let some "friends" talk you out of it? You're worried about some snobby waiter's impression?

P.S. WTF is wrong with the quoting system here nowadays?


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A lot of you miss the point and, a day later, I don't really care to argue. I could be all punk rock and say "fuck everyone, enjoy what you enjoy!" But I'm 26, not 13. When you go out, you make a choice- we could all buy raw ingredients and eat it at home, naked and using tooth picks to pick up our food. But, when you go out, part of going out (especially to a nicer place) is the whole ceremony of eating. Now, I love going to a down and dirty ribs place and use my fingers, and my shirt sleeve as a napkin. But when I chose to go to a nice place, part of going to that nice place is having to behave differently, don't kid yourself - price premiums for nice meals include being able to dine in peace in a classy environment, without little kids running around and hip hop queers shouting "fuck the system!"

Yes, I felt weird when the waiter saw what she was doing. I wasn't going to die a little, but I would have rather her behave according to the customs at hand. Same way, when I go to a Korean BBQ i love, I take off my shoes just like every other costumer. Same way I wear a tie in a place that requires a tie and jacket. Same way I don't give a damn what I'm wearing when I go to Texas BBQ and get their friggin delicious wings, and get grease all over myself. Am I angry at her? Not at all! She's a good person and probably is just ignorant, I wasn't asking if I should banish her from my existence, I was wondering if it's appropriate to say something. A scene demands some respect and, all I was saying, if she didn't understand the custom, is it awful to say something? If it's her choice, so be it, but I don't think she knows what she's doing.
 
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