have you noticed how, in the last few years there have been a lot of japanese restaurants springing up around toronto? coincidently i’ve also eaten japanese food a lot more in the last several years compared to the rest of my life. oddly, one thing that i hardly eat when i goto japanese restaurants is sushi. it’s too damn expensive to fill me up. 50 cents a piece? well i’ll be out $50 by the time i’m full! it’s like dumplings, you can’t just eat 20 and be full, you have to eat the whole bag.

of course i still eat sushi, i just do it when i don’t have to pay per piece; like at a buffet. here’s a little known fact: “fresh” sushi is actually frozen! the article’s about new york, (and from an australian paper cuz i didn’t want to link to the nytimes) but seeing as how we’re farther from the ocean than new york, i’d say that it’s probably true for us too. here’s an interesting quote that i don’t understand:

But for reasons of health and growing demand, 50 to 60 per cent of sushi in the US is frozen at some point in its journey from the ocean, according to wholesalers. And rare is the restaurant that tells customers they may be eating fish that has been in deep-freeze for up to two years.

does that mean we’re eating two year old frozen fish, but restaurants don’t tell us? cuz that’s not fresh at all!

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: best-of, food, japan