Ken wrote on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:40:39 -0700:

>> Hello All!
>>
>> I just enjoyed a lunch of take-out sashimi and thought I'd
>> look it up on Wikipedia. A phrase caught my attention: "a dipping
>> sauce (soy sauce with wasabi paste and thinly-sliced ginger
>> root or gari, and ponzu)" That doesn't fit with my tastes,
>> ponzu might work for some things as might tamari, which is
>> not mentioned, but not for all and putting gari in the
>> dipping sauce does not seen to show much understanding.

> I'm with your taste entirely this time. Moreover, as I
> understand it, that definition of the dipping sauce for
> sashimi is completely wrong. Such a sauce may perhaps be used
> occasionally, but it's not the standard.

The quite good sushi place where I bought my lunch supplies a small cup
of soy sauce and quite a lot of wasabi and gari but not mixed. I don't
find myself using very much wasabi but I'll admit that I tend to finish
off the gari *after* the meal!

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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