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<title><![CDATA[Nouvelle carte !]]></title>
<link>http://kokoya.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/nouvelle-carte/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kokoya</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Depuis le 1er octobre 2009, la carte a changé. N&#8217;hésitez pas à venir goûter les Futomaki Unagi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Depuis le 1<sup>er</sup> octobre 2009, la carte a changé. N&#8217;hésitez pas à venir goûter les <strong>Futomaki Unagi</strong>, de délicieux rouleaux à l&#8217;anguille, ou encore nos <strong>Trois Chirashi</strong> le soir, et de découvrir la bière <strong>Yebisu</strong>, celle des amateurs au Japon.</p>
<p>À très bientôt&#8201;!</p>
<p><em>Kimiyo et Yuca</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Como preparar Sushi desde casa para novatos]]></title>
<link>http://losvideosgratis.com/2009/08/25/como-preparar-sushi-desde-casa-para-novatos/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>takezo82</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Para los amantes de la comida japonesa, el sushi es un manjar para nuestros sentidos, por ello te pr]]></description>
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<p>Para los amantes de la comida japonesa, el <strong>sushi </strong>es un manjar para nuestros sentidos, por ello te proponemos que intentes <strong>cocinar sushi desde casa</strong>, no hace falta que seas un crack en la cocina, tanto los novatos o dummys pueden intentar crear <strong>sushis </strong>o <strong>makis</strong>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Rio and You (also a Times Square rant, and uni rant)]]></title>
<link>http://savorysweetandsushi.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/rio-and-you-also-a-times-square-rant-and-uni-rant/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawsonmarlowe</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Walking around Times Square is usually a way to look for a frustrating evening.  Restaurants are hea]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Walking around Times Square is usually a way to look for a frustrating evening.  Restaurants are heavily overpriced, the throngs of people that block your movement down the streets can be aggravating, and the lack of good restaurants usually keeps me out of the area altogether.  Luckily, the nearby hell&#8217;s kitchen, with its family run Thai restaurants and quality Irish pubs has always been my safe haven from the madness of 42nd Street and Broadway.  A friend invited me to try a restaurant in between these Hell&#8217;s Kitchen and Times Square, and I skeptically accepted the dinner meeting, unaware that I would find another one of the best sushi restaurant in New York City.</p>
<p><span id="adr" dir="ltr"><span>Rio and You Japanese Restaurant, 328</span> <span>W 45th St # 1</span>, <span>New York</span>, <span>NY</span></span></p>
<div id="attachment_133" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 288px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-133" title="Rio and You Japanese Restaurant" src="http://savorysweetandsushi.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/rio-and-you-japanese-restaurant.jpg?w=278" alt="Rio and You, 328 W 45th St # 1, New York, NY, (212) 307-0717" width="278" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Rio and You, 328 W 45th St # 1, New York, NY, (212) 307-0717</p></div>
<p><strong><span dir="ltr">Experience: 20<br />
</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Food: 18<br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Bill: 12<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Quality:  9</p>
<p>Creativity: 5</p>
<p>Flavor: 7</p>
<p>Service:  9</p>
<p><strong>Total: 80</strong></p>
<p><strong>EXPERIENCE: </strong>Walking a few blocks down from a throng of theater-goers waiting in line for Rock of Ages, I entered the large white entrance gate of Rio and You sushi, and into the entrance hall that reminded me of the Genkan (entryway) in some of the Japanese homes I have stayed in.  This entryway led to the restaurant, which has a long interior stretching back into three sections; tables, a sushi bar, and more tables in the back.  This restaurant seems designed to house large groups of people before a show, but its location is just far enough away from Times Square itself that it was surprisingly empty on a weekday evening at 6:30 pm.  The restaurant itself is covered in dark, reddish wooden plank walls, and reminded me of Japanese restaurants found near the base of Mount Fuji.  Upon entry I was greeted by both the host and the restaurant&#8217;s manager, a happy old mama-san that asked me how I was (though we had never met before), and asked where I would like to sit.  I decided to take a seat at the sushi bar, because Rio and You is one of the few restaurants I&#8217;ve been to in the city that allows one to make orders one by one with the sushi chef.  The &#8216;mama-san&#8217; I mentioned above (I forgot to ask her name, I&#8217;ll have to do so next time), came back to take my appetizer and drink order (the menu was well organized, but pricey), and from there my meal was between me and the sushi chef himself.  The sushi bar at Rio and You was long, made of a lighter colored wood, and low, allowing customers to easily see the fish available behind its glass-windowed facade.  The fish was beautiful looking, and the sushi chef was more than happy to discuss which selections were worth trying that evening, though he made the point that &#8216;everything is best tonight.&#8217;  Normally I take that phrase with caution, but the fish before me truly looked as fresh as it could be, with shiny red ahi tuna, full sized clams waiting to be shucked and not a plastic container of pre-made food in sight.  As I ordered piece after piece of sushi, ordering more of the same for the friend who met me at the restaurant a few minutes later, my attempt to stick to a few pieces of sushi and a roll disintegrated into a full feast of 5 different kinds of fish and a few different rolls.  Each order of sushi was prepared quickly, and arrived on a brand new plate with more ginger and wasabi.  The sushi itself was beautiful, and even the pickled appetizers and fruit dessert I ordered came out looking like works of art.  At the end of the meal, the waiters had no problem splitting the bill between two cards, and after a few minutes of talking to the sushi staff and &#8216;mama-san&#8217; about the Broadway shows in the area, I was happily out the door, smiling all the way to the subway (not even the crowds could bring me down after that meal).  And I almost forgot to mention that before we received any food, the waiter checked to make sure if my friend and I had any allergies, so that the kitchen could prepare the food differently if necessary.  In terms of my total experience at Rio and You, it doesn&#8217;t get any better than this, folks.  A costly meal can mean very little in the face of truly friendly, interactive service and beautiful, fresh food.  20 points all the way for this restaurant, and I challenge any other sushi restaurant to try to outdo the service here.</p>
<p>Note:  I noticed a review on the net that chastised this restaurant for not giving restroom service to an injured relative.  I have discussed this issue with other restaurants in the Times Square area, and with all of the tourists wandering the area day in and day out, it would just be impossible to accommodate the restrooms in these nicer restaurants for everyone passing by.  I know it sucks, but unless you are willing to give patronage to a restaurant, you shouldn&#8217;t expect to be able to use their facilities, no matter what your situation is.   And to give a bad review based on said experience?!  I&#8217;m sorry, but if you&#8217;re not going to review a restaurant based on the meal there, then what is the point in reviewing it at all?  Speaking of&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>FOOD: </strong>Everything I ordered for dinner at Rio and You was made fresh, used little to no salt, and was served looking like a work of art.  The Japanese pickles appetizer was served on a small plate, with pickled cabbage, raddish, cucumber, olives, and plums.  Each pickle tasted so fresh that they could have only been prepared on site, and each was displayed on a different section of the small plate, carved into different shapes and sizes, creating a landscape of flavors and colors that I almost didn&#8217;t want to eat.  When I did taste these pickles, though, I experienced flavors that I hadn&#8217;t tasted since I was in the local food markets along Kyoto&#8217;s Teramachidori shopping district.  The plate was large enough that I was able to split it with my friend, and still feel like I had a full appetizer.  After the pickles, I began to order my sushi individually, starting with an order of yellowtail nigiri sushi.  A piece of yellowtail would be the perfect way to gauge if the quality of the fish was a amazing as the look of it.  Good yellowtail should have a subtle, building flavor that melts into your taste buds to eventually and briefly have a rich, flower and fruit taste that overpowers even that of white tuna (beginner&#8217;s hamachi), yet lightens to a tuna-like candy flavor in the end.  Soy sauce and wasabi a accentuate these flavors (there was wasabi on the rice, as there should be), but overuse of salt on the fish itself will always take away from the inherent flavors in any piece of fish.  This yellowtail was not salted, fresh, and flavorful, and though it didn&#8217;t hit the borderline orgasmic level at the peak of its flavor that I have had at only few sushi restaurants, this yellowtail still succeeded in being one of the best pieces I&#8217;ve had in New York City.  The rest of the fish I ordered continued this trend.  The mackerel was prepared in vinegar and was just salty and sour enough that the flavors of the fish were still present, though it never tasted too salt-watery or bitter, which is a sign of bad mackerel.  The eel was prepared perfectly, with a crispy exterior and soft bite, and the sauce the eel was prepared with had a homemade eel sauce that was just the right amount of sweet and salty to make me absolutely crave another piece of the fish immediately after finishing the first.  I ordered an eel and avocado roll to test the roll quality and sate this craving, and said roll was also prepared very will, with warm, only slightly chewy rice and perfectly sliced avocado that did not overpower the still perfectly prepared eel.  I decided to try another roll that would give me a few different flavors that all combined well together, but would not burn out my wallet.  Considering the classic Japanese-style food Rio and You offered, I went for a Futomaki, a classic Japanese train station roll (and the first &#8216;fat&#8217; roll) that includes a variety of local pickles and ingredients that change from city to city.  This roll had tamago, eel, cucumber, and avocado, and lacked the usual pickle assortment that I expect in a roll like this (though admittedly in Tokyo eel and egg futomaki are fairly popular).  Though disappointed to get another roll with eel in it (not for quality, but simply for variety&#8217;s sake), I was still able to try the cucumber and tamago, both of which were prepared fresh at the restaurant.  The tamago-yaki was sweet, but not overpowering, and was fluffy and flavorful, as good egg custard should be.  The cucumbers also had a subtle flavor that did not overpower the roll, but gave it a necessary crunch.  Admittedly, I should have asked in advance what was in the roll, but I incorrectly assumed that all Futomaki in NYC would be the same.  The last piece of sushi I ordered was Uni.</p>
<p>Sea Urchin sushi, Sea Urchin roe, or Uni, as it is called in Japanese, is one of the most delicate things one can order at a sushi restaurant, as well as one of the most expensive.  I am always careful about ordering Uni, as the only truly delicious piece I tried of it was in Japan, and fresh off the boat from that morning.  That uni tasted as it always should; sweet, rich, flavorful, and not too salty.  If should remind the taster of the ocean and a day at the beach, but also have a calm and smooth ending that makes one feel at relaxed and happy.  Bad uni, like the prepackaged kind that is served at most American restaurants, is still edible, and some diners enjoy the stuff, but after about a day of sitting in those containers, the sea urchin roe has already lost its inherent sweetness, gotten incredibly salty, and tends to remind me more of a slimy mess than a day by the ocean.  Some try to make up for uni&#8217;s lack of consistency by ordering it with a raw quail egg (available at many sushi restaurants), and some mix it with various other kinds of fish in order to charge more for said combination, but my rules are as follows:  If the uni was recently imported and freshly prepared that day, if the uni costs more than the other fish on the menu, and especially if the uni did not come out of a plastic container, then it is worth ordering.  Otherwise, avoid this sushi, as it will usually cost a lot and simply ruin your meal.</p>
<p>I took a chance on the uni at Rio and You, and I was not disappointed.  I cannot say that it is this delicious every night (because of what uni is), but except for a little too much saltiness, the sea urchin was delicious, brightly colored, and reminded me, let&#8217;s say, a slightly stormy day at the beach.  Still better than most other orders of uni I&#8217;ve had in America though, I was quite pleased with it, as was my friend, who also ordered a piece.  Full and happy, my meal was concluded, but not before receiving a complimentary plate of peaches, plums, pineapples, and various other cut fruits which were beautifully displayed, and very tasty.  This after dinner fruit plate was light enough not to overfill me, yet delicious enough to mention on this blog as an excellent part of my meal.  Overall, I gave the food here a score of 18 for being fresh and nearly perfect, but still lacking the perfect yellowtail an uni to push it over the edge.  The quality gets a score of 9 for the similar reasons, including the bright and candy-like look of freshness in each piece of fish.  Creativity only receives a score of 5 because the menu was very Japanese, but lacked anything within my price range that would bring me back again and again besides some great nigiri sushi.  The rolls were all classic with higher priced varieties containing the usual spicy tuna and dragon roll variations, and even the futomaki used tamago and eel instead of a variety of Rio and You&#8217;s homemade pickles.  Flavor was a difficult category to decide on, since the sushi tasted so good, and the eel sauce was so delicious, but in the end there weren&#8217;t a lot of new flavors here to set this restaurant apart from others in New York.  Apart from quality, amazing sushi, Rio and You didn&#8217;t have much to offer that didn&#8217;t cost a small fortune.</p>
<p><strong>BILL: </strong>The only part of Rio and You that would keep me from coming back again and again were the prices.  I understand that this restaurant is located near Times Square, probably has high rent to pay, and needs to cater to the rich folk in the area, it was admittedly difficult to find things on the menu here that were worth spending money on.  Sushi dinners start at around $18 for the same combinations offered anywhere else, Japanese classical appetizers go for prices close to $10, and main courses are so far out of a reasonable price range that I&#8217;m not even mentioning them in this article.  The nigiri sushi seemed cheap, but a $4.50 piece of yellowtail goes up to $9 for two pieces of fish when ordered in pairs, and most rolls even started getting prices at $7 and up.  The futomaki, for example is only four pieces of the large roll that go for $8 (a surprise that will result in me not ordering that roll next time I visit).  My entire meal consisted of a few pieces of nigiri sushi and two rolls, and I ended up spending an easy $40 on all of it.  While the experience and sushi here were so amazing that I didn&#8217;t regret the meal at all on the night I ate at Rio and You, looking back at the experience makes me doubt a return trip more and more.  An experience score of 20 should make it so that prices don&#8217;t really matter, but sadly, this place is so overpriced that I&#8217;ll have to save going there for only very special occasions.  This opinion is exemplified in the score of 12 I gave to the Bill category.  The service here easily receives a score of 9 for being fast, friendly, and if not for a few quickly corrected mix-ups in my drink order, almost perfect.  Even if you don&#8217;t speak Japanese, the staff here truly made Rio and You the kind of restaurant I could wander into on a weekday evening to happily converse with over a sake and some appetizers.</p>
<p>If not for the crummy prices and limited menu, I would easily consider Rio and You the best sushi restaurant I&#8217;ve eaten at so far in New York.  So if you have some money to burn, a few shows to see, and want to be taken care of by the kindest restaurant staff in town, be sure to give this restaurant a try.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sharaku Japanese Restaurant]]></title>
<link>http://savorysweetandsushi.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/sharaku-japanese-restaurant/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lawsonmarlowe</dc:creator>
<guid>http://savorysweetandsushi.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/sharaku-japanese-restaurant/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After my terrible experience last night, I wanted&#8230;needed to have some sushi that brought back ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>After my terrible experience last night, I wanted&#8230;<em>needed</em> to have some sushi that brought back my faith in the Japanese culinary arts.  I also wanted to try a new place to blog about.  Luckily, I happened to pass by a sushi restaurant that I have walked past for years and never tried, partially because it is surrounded by all of my favorite Japanese restaurants in the city, and also because the outside menu seemed a little pricy.  Turns out I was wrong about the menu, and surprised by a fresh, inexpensive and light dinner.</p>
<p><span><span><span dir="ltr"><strong> </strong>Sharaku Japanese Restaurant, </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span>14 Stuyvesant St</span>, <span>New York</span>, <span>NY</span></span></p>
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<div id="attachment_125" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 295px"><img class="size-full wp-image-125" title="Sharaku Japanese Restaurant" src="http://savorysweetandsushi.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/sharaku-japanese-restaurant.jpg" alt="Sharaku Japanese Restaurant, 14 Stuyvesant St, New York, NY, (212) 598-0402‎" width="285" height="291" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sharaku Japanese Restaurant, 14 Stuyvesant St, New York, NY, (212) 598-0402‎</p></div>
<p><strong><span dir="ltr">Experience: 16<br />
</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Food: 16<br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Bill: 16<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Quality:  7</p>
<p>Creativity: 6</p>
<p>Flavor: 7</p>
<p>Service:  7</p>
<p><strong>Total: 75</strong></p>
<p><span style="display:none;">eAddress:</span><span><img src="http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/transparent.png" alt="" /></span></p>
<p><strong>EXPERIENCE: </strong>Sharaku is located a block away from St. Mark&#8217;s place, amongst some of the best Japanese food in the city, so it makes sense that they would at least try to make their food and service as good as possible.  Entering Sharaku, I walked through the wooden walled entrance to the host, who quickly and quietly guided me to my seat.  My chair was located in a patio-like area at the north side of the restaurant, far from the dark wood sushi bar and dinner seating area in this large, high ceiling eatery.  I sat next to the patio windows that allowed everyone to see what I was eating, but allowed me to watch the daily traffic outside as well.  I went for dinner early, at 4:30, so I was still able to get lunch service, which ends at 4:45 pm.  My waiter took a while to reach me and take my order, but when he did, my soup and drink came out fairly quickly.  It took about ten minutes for me to receive my food, but the waitress was smiling and apologetic for the wait, so I forgave her.  The menu was easy to read, and I had found a lunch special that gave me a fairly large meal for ~$11.  I happily finished my meal, beautifully served on a single plate, and even though I had to wait yet again to receive the check, the wait staff was kind to me once more.  I left Sharaku feeling good about my meal, my wallet, and my total experience.  While there were some long waits and I felt a little bit rushed once the check came, I am still giving the Experience a score of 16 for being very nice all in all.</p>
<p><strong>FOOD: </strong>While the food at Sharaku wasn&#8217;t perfect, it was the best sushi I&#8217;ve had in the city in a while.  I ordered a lunch special that had just about everything I wanted.  It also came with a miso soup!  The miso was served quickly in a small Japanese bowl.  It was shiro miso, much like every other restaurant I&#8217;ve eaten at has served, but this miso was not only made with fresh miso paste (not as salty and incredibly flavorful), but also with fresh vegetables and tofu, which really added to the flavor even more.  Boiled roots (radish?) and green onions were cooked to perfection, and the soup managed to be delicious and not very salty at all!  My lunch plate arrived a while later, and on it was the yellowtail scallion roll, half-vegetable-futomaki roll, and nigiri sushi the lunch special promised.  The fish on the nigiri looked a bit sad and thin, but I didn&#8217;t let that decide how it tasted, so I dug in.  I started with the tuna sushi, which was actually very fresh tasting, not salty in the least, and had hints of some fantastic flavor that just didn&#8217;t reach the surface (usually a result of how the fish is cut, in my experience).  The yellowtail was delicious, with only a tiny edge of fishiness that was vastly cut out by a sweet, candy flavor that all good yellowtail should have.  The yellowtail didn&#8217;t melt in my mouth, but I still tasted occasional zings of perfect flavor on my tongue.  The salmon sushi was not oily or salty either, but lacked some deeper flavors that the best salmon has.  The eel sushi was the only disappointment, as the sauce on the eel was not salty, but wasn&#8217;t sweet either (kind of flavorless really), so the eel itself just tasted thick and plain.  There was a little bit of crunch in it, but not enough to take away from that grainy texture that incorrectly prepared eel can have.  The yellowtail scallion roll was served beautifully, with just enough scallion to add some spice, without upsetting the wonderful taste in the chopped yellowtail within (this surprised me too, as often yellowtail used in rolls is slightly lower quality than the nigiri cuts).  The futomaki was the best part of the meal, and was probably the best I&#8217;ve had outside of Japan.  Futomaki served properly is a VERY Japanese roll, so it should have very little flavor in it outside of the inherent ones in the fresh ingredients.  Futomaki, or fat roll, was one of the first LARGE rolls served in Japan, and is stuffed with most of the pickles one would receive in an appetizer.  Gobo root (looks like a carrot), pickled radish and plum, tamago egg or egg custard, avocado and cucumber usually make up the roll itself.  This futomaki had those ingredients exactly, and nothing else.  No sodium, no meat, just rice, seaweed, and all of the above.  It tasted marvelous, and I wish I could have ordered more of it for lunch.  Readers out there, if you want an authentic example of Japanese cuisine, this is the roll to order.  After my meal I felt full, but light, as there was so little salt and the rice in my sushi was so well prepared.  I gave the food a score of 16 for having a few things that blew me away, but otherwise serving just decent fish and making a few big mistakes.  Quality gets a 7 for being very good, though the fish looked a bit limp, the eel was a bit off, and the tuna could have been a bit brighter.  Creativity receives a 6 for the usual reasons, those being that the only truly creative rolls cost lots of money and everything reasonable is relatively generic.  Flavor received a 7 because the meal was good (even without so much sodium!), with the futomaki and miso soup pulling the score up, but in the end the eel and tuna&#8217;s lack of flavor keeps the score from reaching the heights.</p>
<p><strong>BILL:</strong> The bill for my filling, amazing meal came out to only $15 with a drink, and I can&#8217;t ask for anything more than that.  The prices on the menu were a little steep for the dinner crowd, with expensive deluxe rolls and even more expensive main courses, but there are a couple of dinner deals (the non-flexible, &#8216;this is what you&#8217;re getting&#8217; kind) are great if they&#8217;re what you are in the mood for.  I gave the bill a score of 16 reflecting this lack of possibility, but for once issues in the menu won&#8217;t stop me from coming back to a restaurant that made me so happy to be eating there.  Service received a score of 7 for being above par, with happy waitresses and an old proprietor to greet me and say farewell, but the service was still a bit slow and disorganized, keeping this score from being the best it could be.</p>
<p>Sharaku is one of the many gems of St. Mark&#8217;s Place, and now that I&#8217;ve been there, I can safely say I&#8217;ll be back before too long.  With other nearby haunts like Yakiniku West and Kenka, though, this place has some serious competition ahead of itself for my hunger&#8217;s favor.  If the menu gets a few more cheap options on it to add to the variety, I could easily see Sharaku as one of the better sushi restaurants in New York City.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Note to self.]]></title>
<link>http://redoaklines.com/2009/01/23/note-to-self/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
<guid>http://redoaklines.com/2009/01/23/note-to-self/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sarah, Please make sure you try to unpack some of your boxes of clothes. Get your spring cleaning bu]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sushi]]></title>
<link>http://beeld.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/sushi/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Herman</dc:creator>
<guid>http://beeld.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/sushi/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Het verjaardagsmenu, de heerlijke Crémant d&#8217;Alsace moet u er nog bijdenken.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oogsnoep/3088411781/" title="Sushi army by Herman Horsten, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3166/3088411781_4732988ca3.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="Sushi army" /></a></p>
<p>Het verjaardagsmenu, de heerlijke <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9mant_d%27Alsace">Crémant d&#8217;Alsace</a> moet u er nog bijdenken.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Futomaki &amp; Tamagoyaki Lunch Box]]></title>
<link>http://sasipa.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/futomaki-tamagoyaki-lunch-box/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Left: </strong>Tamagoyagi or sweet fried egg roll with sesame on top</p>
<p><strong>Right:</strong> Futomaki with cucumber, carrot, tuna in mayonaise, and tamagoyaki/sweet fried egg roll</p>
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<dc:creator>Alex Pongitori</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[2d6 &#8211; Qual resultado vai dar? Tadaima!!! Então né!! ^^’ Olha eu aqui de novo… e hoje pra falar]]></description>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">2d6 &#8211; Qual resultado vai dar?</p>
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<h2 style="text-align:left;">Tadaima!!!</h2>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Então né!!</p>
<h6 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">^^’</h6>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Olha eu aqui de novo… e hoje pra falar sobre… <em>Sushi</em>… /o/</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Mas por qual motivo escolhi falar de <em>Sushi</em>, especificamente de como comê-los? Simples, muito se fala do processo de globalização do mundo, de como isso aproxima as pessoas e culturas, ao mesmo passo que as afasta. Um restaurante japonês no Ceará, onde temos o costume de comer buchada, sarrabulho e outros (eca… ._.’), é no mínimo estranho. O problema é que já que se trata de outra cultura, existem pequenas regras que tornam o ato de comer mais apropriado e que deveriam ser incentivadas, mas que, por muitas vezes, ignoramos por tratar-se apenas de… Comida.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Afinal, quem aqui se preocupa se o feijão vem por cima do arroz ou se você gosta de misturar tudo no prato? Cada um faz da maneira que achar mais gostoso.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">O relevante aqui é que os japoneses se importam, sejam por estarem ligadas à complexidade e heterogeneidade dos sabores, ou quanto à maneira que o corpo reage aos alimentos ou ainda por simplesmente evitar problemas de saúde.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Da última vez que fui a Acaraú, me deparei com uma notícia um tanto quanto instigante: haviam aberto uma sushi-house na cidade. A princípio veio o espanto ‘isso não vai dar certo’ e com isso a curiosidade, tão logo fosse possível eu gostaria de passar por lá. E qual foi o motivo do meu espanto?! É BOM!!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">: P~</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">O lugar tá muito bacana… e pelo que parece está fazendo bastante sucesso. Nãããããão é o melhor sushi que eu já comi na minha vida, mas sim, é bom e barato.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Seguem algumas dicas de como comer <em>sushi</em>:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Ele tem mesmo que ser comido inteiro?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Regra 01</strong></span></em> &#8211; <strong>Não</strong> morda o <em>sushi</em> que tiver o tamanho que sua boca possa comê-lo de uma bocada. Os outros, quando mordidos, devem ser mantidos <strong>fora</strong> do prato até poderem ser terminados.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">A maioria das moças reclama desta regra. Dizem que o <em>sushi</em> é grande demais para suas pequenas boquinhas. No entanto, o <em>sushi</em> é feito com o tamanho de uma bocada, medido pelo Itamae-san (foto ao lado). Às mulheres, e somente a elas, aconselha-se morder a peça de sushi quando a bocada for muito grande, aos homens nunca. Além do mais, se a bocada for exageradamente grande, o erro é do Itamae. Sushis de tamanho razoável devem ser comidos inteiros.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Existem alguns tipos de sushi específicos que são maiores que o normal, é o caso de alguns <em>futomaki</em> e também do <em>temaki</em>. Esses devem ser pegos com as mãos e mordidos em várias bocadas sem voltarem ao prato.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://zonaneutra.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/000.png?w=1024"><img class="aligncenter" title="000" src="../files/2008/07/000.png?w=1024" alt="000" width="721" height="213" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Com ou sem <em>Shoyu</em>?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Regra 2</span></em></strong> &#8211; Não se deve mergulhar no <em>shoyu</em> os <em>sushi</em> que já tenham vindo com algum molho ou que sejam adocicados.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Algumas pessoas gostam de <em>shoyu</em> em tudo, mas alguns <em>sushi</em> são muito elaborados, e são preparados para serem comidos sem nenhum molho adicional. Por exemplo, <em>unagi</em>, <em>nigirizushi</em>, <em>skin</em> <em>uramaki</em>, califórnia <em>roll</em> e <em>nigiri</em> com limão não devem ser molhados no <em>shoyu</em>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Mesmo assim, muitas pessoas preferem colocar <em>shoyu</em> nesses <em>sushi</em> e algumas vezes levam bronca dos japoneses. Eles dizem que isso é muito errado, pois isso “diz” para o Itamae que, apesar de todo o trabalho que ele teve em preparar um <em>sushi</em> diferente e interessante, você prefere o sabor do <em>shoyu</em> ao sabor que ele criou.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Shoyu</em> no peixe, arroz no <em>shoyu</em> ou peixe no <em>shoyu</em>?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Regra 3 &#8211; Nunca se mergulha arroz no <em>shoyu</em>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Essa é a regra mais controversa e existem até discussões sobre ela na Internet, até mesmo em português. Falam que se deve virar o <em>nigirizushi</em> para tocar somente o peixe no <em>shoyu</em>, mas é difícil virá-lo. Pior. O que se deve fazer com <em>uramaki</em>? Se alguém já tentou virar um <em>gunkanmaki</em> viu que isso faz apenas uma grande sujeira.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">O motivo disso é que o <em>shari</em> (arroz preparado para fazer <em>sushi</em>) não foi preparado para receber nenhum molho, enquanto o peixe foi. O <em>shari</em> absorve muito <em>shoyu</em>, fazendo com que ele se desprenda e estragando o sabor do <em>sushi</em>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Quanto <em>shoyu</em>?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Regra 4 &#8211; Nos <em>sushi</em> que vêm sem molho, deve-se molhar o peixe levemente no <em>shoyu</em>. Quanto mais delicado o sabor do peixe, menos <em>shoyu</em> se deve por.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Esse é o problema número um que a maioria de nós tem com as regras. Todas as pessoas que conhecemos comeram <em>sushi</em> com muito <em>shoyu</em>, desde a primeira vez. Além disso, ninguém fala nada do tanto de <em>katchup</em> que as pessoas põem no sanduíche.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Não sabemos exatamente por que isso acontece. Talvez seja porque as pessoas gostam muito do sabor do <em>shoyu</em>, ou talvez porque não queiram se sentirem enjoadas com o peixe cru, decidindo mascarar o sabor do peixe com <em>shoyu</em>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Na verdade, não importa muito. O ideal é que, se esse for seu caso, você vá gradualmente reduzindo a quantidade de <em>shoyu</em>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Onde colocar <em>wasabi</em> e quanto colocar?</strong><br />
Regra 5 &#8211; <em>Wasabi</em> não deve ser misturado no <em>shoyu</em> em hipótese <strong>nenhuma</strong>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Todas as pessoas que conhecemos, começaram colocando <em>wasabi</em> no <em>shoyu</em> e molhando o <em>sushi</em> nessa mistura de <em>shoyu</em> com <em>wasabi</em>. Ainda assim, isso é mal visto pela regra e muitos chamam isso de “o banho de lama”.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Essa regra existe por dois motivos. O primeiro é que o <em>wasabi</em> perde uma parte da força quando é misturado com <em>shoyu</em>. O segundo, menos óbvio, é que os japoneses consideram desejável que a comida seja heterogênea, por isso colocar um pequeno ponto de <em>wasabi</em> no peixe ao invés de misturá-lo no shoyu é considerado melhor.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Quanto à quantidade, não existe regra. Cada um põe o quanto acha que deve. Normalmente, <em>nigirizushi</em> já vem com <em>wasabi</em> dentro, por isso algumas pessoas podem olhar estranho se você põe muito <em>wasabi</em> além daquele que o <em>Itamae</em> recomendou.</p>
<h1 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Etiqueta dos “palitinhos”.</span></h1>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Também conhecidos como <em>wari bashi</em>, os pauzinhos foram o primeiro instrumento que o homem criou para evitar o contato direto dos dedos com a comida durante a refeição. Sua importância se reflete na maneira como é chamado no Japão: <em>o-hashi</em> em japonês, o ‘O’ que precede as palavras tem sentido honorífico.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">O <em>hashi</em> constitui um prolongamento natural dos dedos, especialmente útil e higiênico nos tempos em que se comia em pratos comunitários. Não é difícil manipulá-lo, e quem o despreza, no mínimo, ignora que a humanidade já o utilizava 5 mil anos antes da invenção do garfo.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Quem vai a um restaurante japonês (ou asiático) deve pelo menos fazer um esforço para não usar garfo, faca e colher. Se houver dificuldade em usar os pauzinhos, a garçonete poderá improvisar um <em>hashi</em> com elástico na ponta superior, o que facilitará as coisas.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Algumas dicas de como utilizar o <em>hashi</em></strong>:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">- Em qualquer pausa durante a refeição, deposita-se o <em>hashi</em> em paralelo ao balcão, no suporte apropriado (<em>oki</em>), jamais apontando para o <em>Itamae-san</em>: é agressivo! Se não houver <em>oki</em>, pode-se usar o próprio invólucro de papel, dobrado</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">- Nunca ‘friccione’ os pauzinhos, um contra o outro: fazer isso significa insinuar ao <em>Itamae-san</em> que os <em>hashi</em> da casa são de qualidade inferior.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">- Nunca use o próprio <em>hashi</em> para servir os outros. Se houver prato, estenda-o para a outra pessoa; se não houver, use as pontas superiores do <em>hashi</em> para colocar a peça no balcão. Jamais a passe diretamente para o <em>hashi</em> do companheiro.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">- Gesticular com o <em>hashi</em> nas mãos é deselegante _tanto quanto fazer isso com o garfo e a faca.</p>
<h1 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Vocabulário gastronômico japonês:</span></h1>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>- Sushi</em></strong>: É o mais famoso prato japonês no mundo. E o mais popular entre os japoneses, que o prepara em ocasiões especiais. Basicamente, o sushi pode ser definido como um bolinho de arroz coberto por peixes ou frutos do mar crus. Há, no entanto, vários tipos de <em>sushis</em>, que mudam de nome conforme a forma de preparo ou os ingredientes utilizados. Confira os tipos mais conhecidos:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Niguiri</em></strong>: Pequenos bocados de arroz recobertos com fatias de peixes ou frutos do mar crus, sendo os mais comuns os de atum, camarão, enguia, lula, polvo, salmão e omelete;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Gunkan</em></strong>: Arroz enrolado por algas marinhas e recheado com peixe cru, frutos do mar, ovas de peixes ou legumes;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Uramaki</em></strong>: É um <em>sushi</em> às avessas. Neste tipo, o arroz recobre as algas, que, por sua vez, são recheadas com vários tipos de peixes, legumes e até frutas. No Brasil, a manga é utilizada na confecção deste tipo de <em>sushi</em>;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Temaki</em></strong>: Cones de algas recheados com arroz, peixe cru ou frutos do mar e legumes;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Chirashi</em></strong>: peixes, frutos do mar e legumes espalhados por sobre o arroz de <em>sushi</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>- Sashimi</em></strong>: Fatias de peixe cru degustadas com <em>shoyu</em> (molho de soja) e <em>wasabi</em> (raiz forte). Os japoneses comem alguns diferentes tipos de peixes crus. É óbvio que o peixe tem de estar o mais fresco possível.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Os mais populares tipos de <em>sashimi</em> são:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Maguro</em></strong>:atum;<br />
<strong><em>Toro</em></strong>: atum gordo (parte nobre);<br />
<strong><em>Ika</em></strong>: lula;<br />
<strong><em>Tako</em></strong>: polvo;<br />
<strong><em>Ebi</em></strong>: camarão;<br />
<strong><em>Saba</em></strong>: cavalinha (espécie de peixe);<br />
<strong><em>Shake</em></strong>: salmão.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>- Tempura</em></strong>: Frutos do mar e vegetais empanados e fritos em óleo fervente. Foi introduzido no Japão pelos portugueses. Hoje em dia, tornou-se um dos pratos mais populares do Japão, e também, bem conhecido no mundo todo.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>- Algas</strong>:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">As algas (<em>kaiso</em>) são uma importante parte da dieta japonesa, por ser muito rica em minerais. Várias espécies de algas são comidas de diferentes maneiras.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">As três mais conhecidas são:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Nori</em></strong>: É a mais comum. São lâminas secas e finas de algas usadas nos “rolinhos” e em outros tipos de <em>sushi</em>. Pode ser usada como condimento ou acompanhamento para o arroz;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Wakame</em></strong>: É comumente usada em sopas como a de <em>misô</em> ou em alguns tipos de saladas. Hoje em dia, <em>wakame</em> é vendida na forma seca, mas ela se expande quando a põe na água;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Kombu</em></strong>: É usada como ingrediente básico de sopas.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>- Wasabi</em></strong>: É um dos principais temperos da culinária japonesa. Feito de raiz forte, costuma ser utilizado em forma de uma pasta como condimento em <em>sashimis</em> e <em>sushis</em>. De qualquer forma, <em>wasabi</em> é também muito usado em outros pratos japoneses.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>- Saquê</em></strong>: É feito de arroz e água. Há vários tipos regionais de saquê. Sua graduação alcoólica varia entre 10 e 15% e pode ser servido quente ou gelado. Costumam ser servidos em pequenos potes ou em um recipiente chamado <em>masu</em>. Atualmente, alguns já são vendidos em embalagens <em>tetra</em> <em>packs</em> (de papelão reciclável).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>- Shari.</em></strong> Arroz preparado para confecção de <em>Sushi</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>- Umeshu</em></strong>: lícor de ameixa.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>- Shochu</em></strong>: É um tipo de aguardente. Pode ser feita de cereais e de batata doce. É bem mais forte do que o saquê.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>- O chá</strong>: É uma das bebidas mais populares do Japão. O chá verde é bebido em qualquer lugar e em qualquer ocasião. Diferentemente do chá inglês, o chá verde é servido em canecas sem a asa e nunca é bebido com açúcar ou creme. A maneira correta de beber chá verde é segurar a caneca com uma mão e apoiá-la embaixo com a outra mão. Há vários tipos:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Gyokuro</em>, <em>sencha</em>, <em>bancha</em></strong>: O chá verde mais comum feito de folhas secas de chá, que apresentam três níveis de qualidade;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Houjicha</em></strong>: Chá verde feito das folhas torradas do chá, que lhe dá uma coloração marrom;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Matcha</em></strong>: É usado na Cerimônia do Chá e tem o sabor mais amargo. É feito das folhas de chá moídas;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Chá chinês</strong>: São chás aromáticos, como o “<em>oolong</em>” e o de jasmim, etc.;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Kocha</em></strong>: É o nome do chá preto.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Basicamente é isso. O <em>Sushi</em> é feito pelo <em>Itamae-san</em> para que você aprecie os sabores dos elementos que ele utiliza em harmonia. Camuflar os seus sabores com <em>shoyo</em> ou <em>wasabi</em> é, na minha opinião, um crime. Pra mim é um indício de que você está ali simplesmente por que é moda comer <em>sushi</em>. O <em>sushi</em> é tradicional na cozinha japonesa, e para mim é essencial que as pessoas procurem entender seus fundamentos, suas origens, para que dessa forma, como havia dito antes, tentem se aproximar da cultura nipônica.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><a class="alignleft" title="http://www.giappone.com.br/cardapio_fotos.php" href="http://www.giappone.com.br/cardapio_fotos.php" target="_blank">Cardápio do Restaurante Giaponne</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Agora deixem-me ir que me deu vontade de comer <em>sushi</em>… =D~</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">*reverência*</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Itekimasu!!</p>
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<description><![CDATA[Esta página no Wikipedia dá uma boa aulinha sobre os tipos e diferenças dos sushis. E dá muita vonta]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Esta <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi" target="_blank">página</a> no Wikipedia dá uma boa aulinha sobre os tipos e diferenças dos sushis. E dá muita vontade de comer sushi também. Vai lá:</p>
<p>“O ingrediente comum em todos os diferentes tipos de sushi é o arroz de sushi. A variedade aparece na escolha dos recheios e coberturas, na escolha de outros condimentos, e na maneira em que são montados. Os mesmos ingredientes podem ser montados de formas inteiramente diferentes para a obtenção de efeitos totalmente diferentes. Esta seção lista as diferentes formas de construir o sushi, independentemente dos tipos de recheio e cobertura.</p>
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<p><strong>Makizushi</strong> (sushi enrolado):<br />
Um pedaço cilíndrico, formado com a ajuda de uma esteira enrolável de bambu, chamada makisu ou sudare. O makizushi é geralmente embrulhado em nori, uma folha de alga marinha desidratada que abriga o arroz e o recheio.</p>
<p><strong>-Futomaki</strong> (rolinhos grandes): Cilíndrico e grande, é um dos mais populares sushis. Possui como recheio variada combinação de peixes, folhas e raízes. Tendo tradicionalmente recheios ímpares, é um dos mais apreciados em festivais e datas comemorativas.</p>
<p><strong>-Hosomaki</strong> (rolinhos finos):  Um pedaço cilíndrico fino, com o nori na parte externa. O hosomaki típico tem por volta de dois centímetros de espessura e dois centímetros de largura. Eles são geralmente feitos com apenas um recheio, simplesmente porque não há espaço suficiente para mais de um.</p>
<p><strong>-Kappamaki. Hosomaki</strong> recheado apenas com pepino em tiras é um dos mais tradicionais sushis. Foi batizado dessa forma em homenagem ao Kappa, figura folclórico japonesa, que tinha o pepino como seu alimento preferido.</p>
<p><strong>-Tekkamaki. </strong>Tendo como recheio o atum, é uma das variantes mais conhecidas do hosomaki.</p>
<p><strong>-Temaki </strong>(rolinhos de mão): Um pedaço grande em formato de cone, com o nori na parte externa e os ingredientes até à boca da extremidade larga. Um temaki típico tem por volta de dez centímetros de comprimento, e é comido com os dedos, já que é muito estranho pegá-lo com palitinhos.<br />
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-Uramaki</strong> (enrolado ao contrário): Um pedaço cilíndrico médio, com dois ou mais recheios. Uramaki se diferencia dos outros maki porque o arroz está na parte externa e o nori na interna. O recheio fica no centro, rodeada por uma camada de nori, então uma camada de arroz e uma cobertura de outro ingrediente como ovas de peixe ou sementes de gergelim torradas. Tem como seu mais popular representante um sushi americano, o California Roll.</p>
<p><strong>Oshizushi </strong>(sushi prensado):<br />
Um pedaço em forma de bloco usando um molde de madeira, chamado oshibako. O chef alinha o fundo do oshibako com a cobertura, cobre-o com arroz de sushi, e pressiona a tampa do molde para baixo para criar um bloco compacto e retilíneo. O bloco é removido do molde e cortado em pedaços que cabem na boca.<br />
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Nigirizushi </strong>(sushi feito à mão):<br />
Pequenos pedaços ligeiramente similares ao sushi prensado ou sushi enrolado, mas feito sem a utilização de makisu ou oshibako. Montar um nigirizushi é surpreendentemente difícil para fazer de forma correta. A forma mais simples é um pequeno bloco de arroz de sushi com uma lasca de wasabi e uma camada fina de uma cobertura colocada sobre ele, possivelmente amarrada com uma tira fina de nori.</p>
<p><strong>-Gunkanzushi </strong>(sushi navio de guerra): Também conhecido como gunkanmaki é um sushi pequeno, ovalado, similar em tamanho e aparência ao hosomaki. Um punhado de arroz é embrulhado à mão em uma tira de nori, mas ao invés do recheio ficar no centro, tem alguns ingredientes — como ovas de peixe — empilhados no topo.</p>
<p><strong>Sushi pré-embalado</strong></p>
<p><strong>Inarizushi </strong>(sushi recheado):<br />
Um pequeno pacote ou bolsinha cheia de arroz de sushi e outros ingredientes. O pacote é confeccionado de tofu bem frito (ou abura age), uma omelete fina (ou fukusazushi), ou folhas de repolho (ou kanpyo).</p>
<p><strong>Chirashizushi </strong>(sushi espalhado):<br />
Uma tigela de arroz de sushi com outros ingredientes misturados. Também conhecido como barazushi.</p>
<p><strong>-Edomae chirashizushi </strong>(sushi espalhado no estilo Edo). Ingredientes crus arranjados de forma artística em cima do arroz na tigela.</p>
<p><strong>-Gomokuzushi </strong>(sushi no estilo Kansai): Ingredientes cozidos ou crus misturados no meio do arroz na tigela.</p>
<p><strong>Narezushi:</strong><br />
É uma forma mais antiga de sushi. Um peixe é recheado com sal após seus órgãos e escamas serem removidos. Estes peixes são colocados em um barril de madeira mergulhados em sal e comprimidos com um tsukemonoishi pesado ou uma pedra específica. Eles são fermentados por entre dez dias e um mês. Então esses peixes são colocados na água por entre 15 minutos e uma hora. Os peixes são então colocados em outro barril, encaixados e colocados em camadas com arroz cozido no vapor e peixe resfriados. Então eles são novamente selados de forma parcial com otosibuta e uma pedra específica. Conforme os dias passarem, a água fermentada deve ser retirada. Seis meses depois, esses &#8220;funazushi&#8221; podem ser comidos, podendo também durar por mais seis meses.&#8221;</p>
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