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Sushi Beginner experiments, product notes, and stories from making sushi at home.
There’s a YouTube short I recently watched: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zvIIuZWmj5I It got me thinking about the ways that media about sushi makes it seem like this super fancy inaccessible thing. The title of that vi
Poké always felt like one of those things I could only order at a restaurant, but really, it’s extremely easy to make at home. In fact, if you have a vacuum sealer and some vacuum seal bags, you can make a whole bunch of
I’d watched the videos. I’d read the instruction guides. I was ready to make sushi. The problem is, I didn’t know where to find sushi fish. The only straightforward-looking website that came up for me was www.wagyuman.co
The other day, I finally got around to visiting Joong Boo Market, a Korean products store here in Chicago. I’d been there before, but this was my first time scoping it out to see if they had any good fish for sushi. One
Last weekend, my brother-in-law visited from NYC, which was a great excuse to try the left-handed yanagi knife my friend had gotten me from Japan. Despite being left-handed, I could only find affordable right-handed yana