On 9/28/2014 1:17 PM, sf wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:41:50 -0400, James Silverton
> > wrote:
>
>> On 9/28/2014 10:41 AM, sf wrote:
>
>>> I hate supermarket sushi and I don't know what they do to it that's
>>> different. Even though I can watch them make it, it still tastes
>>> weird to me.
>>>
>>>
>> A major problem with supermarket sushi is freshness. "Made fresh daily"
>> is *not* a recommendation for sushi. Even conveyor-belt sushi
>> restaurants have a mechanism to remove the dishes an hour after they are
>> set out.
>
> That too, but I can watch them make it and still don't like it. I
> think Pico is probably right, they don't season the rice properly.
>
>
I wonder why that lack of seasoning should be the case? Flavored sushi
vinegar for preparing the rice is not expensive and, in fact, neither is
the spice mixture.

By the way, I had forgotten the name for conveyor-belt sushi and I
gather it is "Kaiten zushi" (machinery mostly made in Korea.)

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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