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So there's a japanese restaurant I spend a lot of time at and for a long time I'd see a man playing the morin huur. I only knew vaguely about throat singing at first so I enjoyed it but didn't think much about it. Until one day I actually noticed that most of those sounds weren't coming from his instrument. I am blown away every time I hear this. It's amazing to hear this type of singing and even more stunning to witness close up.

Somewhat related to the topic, oddly enough, most of the local Japanese restaurants in my area are owned and run by Vietnamese people.

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Beat you by 5 years 5 months.

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I'll give it a shot.

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>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

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Thanks, mate - sorry if I was a hardass previously

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>> ^Mcboinkens:
How is whaling still legal? This is sickening.
Commercial whaling IS illegal.
Japanese don't call it whaling!
All of their ships have huge RESEARCH letters painted on them. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Nisshin_Maru.jpg
The Japanese fleet consists of a factory ship, two spotter vessels, and three harpoon boats. The whalers say that lethal research is needed to accurately measure the whale population, health, and response to global warming and is essential for the sustainable management of the world's cetacean stocks. Australia and New Zealand have started a non-lethal whale research program to show that the Japanese lethal research program is no longer necessary. Sea Shepherd and other environmental groups dispute the Japanese statement of research "as a disguise for commercial whaling, which is banned." Meat from the hunt is available at Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market and Japanese restaurants.

Pretty cool stuff Atara. BUT!!!

Yeah the Japanese eat it, but that doesn't mean the American versions are any good. Tell an Italian Chef to make a sushi and it would be the same result.

If you want an authentic traditional Japanese meal you would either have to go all the way to Japan or goto one of those high end Japanese restaurants near Columbus circle or midtown in NYC.

Because any other 'Japanese sushi bars' they've got here are run by either Taiwanese, Koreans or Malaysians. And they don't know what they're doing... I mean sure it's still better than something that I made myself but shit, bad is bad.





A good example would be this video right here. PERSONALLY, I wouldn't eat the roll made in this video. Looks disgusting. Alton may be following the exact recipe from a great Sushi chef or something. But the problem with that method is that even if things go wrong, you wouldn't know the difference.

Wayyyy too much rice on the nori. and they've been cooked all the way, which isn't the right kind of rice for making sushi. Oh and Nori itself is too firm. Has to be crispier and drier than that otherwise it's too tough and won't fall apart even when chewed. As soon as you bite down on that roll the whole nori piece will stick to the roof of your mouth.

A lot of people use unseasoned unroasted Nori, which is much tougher than roasted Nori. That's why moms usually purchase regular Nori and roast it themselves to get the right consistency. Plus, you won't have to worry about nori getting too crispy because all you have to do is put some water/rice vinegar on it and it gets tough again (Korean version uses sesame oil)

And wtf was that about 'it's easier to take rice off the roll than to add some later'???? WHERE THE FUCK DID HE COME UP WITH THAT??? WHO TOLD HIM THAT CRAP????

I may sound like a smug bastard right now. Go ahead and ask the next Japanese person that you know. Ask them if they wanna eat that crap shown in the video.

>> ^legacy0100:
I've yet to see any of my Japanese friends goto a Japanese restaurant serving sushi rolls.
I'm beginning to suspect sushi rolls are more of an American trend, because none of them ever go for it.


Sushi is actually the rice. Sushi originated as a way to preserve fish from spoiling; the rice was wrapped around the fish. Originally the rice was discarded and just the fish was eaten.

A form of sushi rice wrapped around fish and other ingredients was called haya-sushi, and it originated in the early 1600s. The fish and rice were meant to be eaten together. There are paintings of roll-style sushi dating to the mid-1800s.

Now, novel ingredients like avocado and fried chicken is definitely a much more recent and Western innovation. But roll-style sushi has been around for a very long time, even if its ingredients and style of preparation have changed.

(I would have liked to see this video. Stupid Hulu.)

I've yet to see any of my Japanese friends goto a Japanese restaurant serving sushi rolls.

I'm beginning to suspect sushi rolls are more of an American trend, because none of them ever go for it.

Kinda like how American Chinese food has originated from China, but actual Chinese would have never tasted them.