Sushi for Me, Sushi for You!

As a food fanatic, I will eat pretty much anything you put in front of me, but my favorite food of all time is sushi. Just the texture alone is enough to hook you for life. Every time I have an option to go out for dinner I always suggest Empire Szechuan, my favorite place for sushi. Sometimes I even order the Maki Combination (12pc) take out and eat it for lunch by myself! I'm glad that my friends all like it because that’s where I go out to eat with them. I think the best part though, was when I found “Sushi Cat” (the game) on i-Tunes freshman year. It’s this big blobby cat that bounces around and eats sushi. That got me through a lot of lonely study halls…

I have made my own sushi a couple of times, each time producing a better product than the last. The most recent time I used thin slices of cucumber to wrap the outside of a reverse-roll with avocado, tuna, and cucumber on the inside. It was absolutely delicious and I can’t wait to use the new nori sheets that I picked up a couple weeks ago.

Since I have no life, I decided to do a little research on food blogs, and I found out that sushi was supposed to be the Japanese version of a sandwich.. that doesn’t sound right but if you think about it, it’s meant to be popped into your mouth with no mess. I knew that sushi was created kind of by accident, from trying to preserve fish under rice, but I didn’t know that it actually caused a fermentation process to occur. They then replaced the dried fish with raw, and added sugar and vinegar to create what we know as modern sushi.

PS : sushi does NOT mean raw fish, in fact, there can be no fish at all.

Georgia C.