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starkvegasdawg

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I will be the first to admit I have never tried sushi in my life. Never had any real desire too. Know next to nothing about it. Today, in my email, I received an ad for a discount at a sushi restaurant. In the ad I saw the following sentence:
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<font face="Calibri"></font></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #984807; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #984807; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000">The traditional method for preparing sushi requires slices of raw fish to be held over unlit fires in order to secure that signature uncooked flavor.</span>[/b]<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #666666; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span>[/b]</p>

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How can you have an unlit fire? Do they just hold it over a bag of Kingsford?
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starkvegasdawg

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I will be the first to admit I have never tried sushi in my life. Never had any real desire too. Know next to nothing about it. Today, in my email, I received an ad for a discount at a sushi restaurant. In the ad I saw the following sentence:
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<font face="Calibri"></font></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #984807; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #984807; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000">The traditional method for preparing sushi requires slices of raw fish to be held over unlit fires in order to secure that signature uncooked flavor.</span>[/b]<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #666666; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span>[/b]</p>

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How can you have an unlit fire? Do they just hold it over a bag of Kingsford?
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Dawghouse

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sounds like the type of description found in a groupon. They add crazy stuff to all their offers.<div>
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starkvegasdawg

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It was a groupon ad. I am heading to Gulf Shores Sunday for a week's vacation and someone in the office suggested their website to see if I could get any deals in the area. That was today's email.

Now I am wondering how interesting things will be. Latest forecasts look to be showing some kind of tropical system forming in the Gulf over the weekend and they have no idea where it is heading. I may end up seeing Jim Cantore on the beach doing a live shot.
 
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BigMotherTucker

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Sushi isn't technically raw fish. Sushi litterally means rolled rice. Sashimi on the other hand does mean raw fish.
 
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o_Hot Rock

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I was in my mid 40's before I ever tried sushi and only within the last year or so have I tried it raw (Sashimi). I love it in a variety of ways but most of all with my beverage of choice.

If you haven't tried it, andyou like seafood, then you will probably like it.

Don't worry too much about not knowing what to order because most places have what everything is made of right on the menu so you know what your gettting.Some upper scale joints don't haveanything aboutthe dishes but dont' bebashful about asking. It'syour dime, they shouldbe there to serve you. If you aren't ready for the raw then just gofor the smoked salmon. It's hard to go wrong there.
 
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fishwater99

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If you ever go Tuna fishing take some soy and wasabi with you on the boat..

 
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elmsurfer1

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octopus, eel and smoked salmon (none or these have raw fish in them). Add a piece of salmon and tuna which you can work your way up to. After ordering, start looking around watching how others are eating their dinner. You don't have to eat a piece in one bit and it is ok to use your hands if not comfortable with chop sticks. Once served, start with the non-raw stuff and I think you will be brave enough to eat the raw stuff after you are more comfortable with everything else.
Also, cheap sushi is no bargain. I've never gotten sick from raw oysters or sushi but I use common sense too. If it smells bad, don't eat it. Ate my first raw Oyster in Felix's in New Orleans in 1975 and my first sushi June 1986 at a place called Perry's in Adam-Morgan part of DC.
Your dinner usually comes with a broth soup like miso or similar.
 
DesotoCountyDawg

DesotoCountyDawg

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and I thought it was good. I'm kind of a picky eater and even I found some that I like. Like someone else said, try a California roll or even a spicy crawfish roll. Those a pretty basic. They even do some rolls deep fried. It comes out with a nice crisp to it.
 
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Hump4Hoops

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Sushi is 17ing delicious. Also, don't necessarily try a California roll and think you know anything - I love sushi and sashimi but hate California rolls - they're usually just raw vegetables and imitation crab meat. Yuck.

Next time you're in Starkville, go to Umi and get an order of spicy tuna rolls with your meal. Quite tasty.
 
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biguglyjoe

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I'm not going to like them just because everyone else does.

( I do like SOME of Tarantino's work, but not the majority.)
 
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dawgs.sixpack

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RonnyAtmosphere said:
(I have tried lox but not sushi. It's gross. Have no desire to try sushi).
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if people aren't dying, i'll try anything once. how can you think it's gross if you haven't tried it? <div>
</div><div>i make my own sushi and my own ceviche which is shrimp or whitefish cured in lemon/lime juice. i also like to get raw kitfo (raw ground beef with seasonings/jalepenos/onions) at ethiopian restaurants. </div><div>
</div><div>and i've only had food poisoning 3 times. once for taco hell. once at SBW about 16 or 17 years ago when they used to combine all the BBQ for people to eat with their SBW ticket. i think it rained that night and some of the fires got too cold/went out. and over this past year my gf and i ate salmon at a nice restaurant a few days before christmas and spent our holiday running back and forth to the bathroom.</div>
 
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Tuna tataki... Lightly braised tuna over a bed of onion with ponzu sauce. Lemon and shiso (mint?) as garnish.
 
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I love ceviche. When I lived in Panama, it was prepared as you mentioned. The Shrimp or Corvina was "cured" in lime juice (no lemons in Panama or South America - at least not native) with other spices. I did several jobs in Ecuador a few years back and all of their ceviche is prepared by blanching the seafood for 1-2 minutes since they had a cholera outbreak in the 90s. Still really good -there isn'tabetter way to eat shrimp than getting some Ceviche de Camarones on the beach in Esmeraldas, Ecuador (unless you're not a fan of lime, tomatoes, onions, and cilantro). I made it for a family gathering a few years back and even my backwoods Lucedale cousins thought it was really good.
 
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Same with me. I never would've considered Sushi, but my wife got me to try it. CA Rolls, Spicy Crawfish, and Shrimp Tempura are really good ones.
 
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