I love sushi. My family started me on California rolls at age 5 and I fought my way down the menu as I got older. I'm fairly knowledgeable for an amateur, and heck, I even wrote an entire research paper on it in college. At the top of the first page, in red ink, my teacher wrote: "Wow, you must really like sushi." I do.
But Japanese people would probably be horrified by the way most Americans eat sushi. Dredging the rice in soy sauce, eating ginger and raw fish in the same bite, dissecting maki rolls at the table. Ick. All horrifying to a person to whom sushi is not merely a food, but a cultural treasure rich with aesthetic ritual and meaning.
Fortunately for us, the good people at Swiss Miss (via GOOD) have conjured up an easy guide to eating sushi. Just in case you find yourself in Tokyo, now you won't stick out like a sore thumb at the sushi bar. Because there's no other way you might look out of place in Japan.
Check out my list of DC sushi restaurants at the bottom. Let me know if there's an awesome sushi place I left off the list (I'm always on the prowl for some good fish!) or if you know of any interesting sushi customs.
Sushi Taro1503 17th Street NW
Washington, DC
(202) 462-8999
Uni A Sushi Place
2122 P Street NW
Washington, DC
(202) 833-8038
Kaz Sushi Bistro
1915 Eye Street NW
Washington, DC
(202) 530-5500
Sushi-Ko
2309 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Washington, DC
(202) 333-4187
Tono Sushi
2605 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC
(202) 332-7300
Spices Asian Restaurant & Sushi Bar
3333 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC
(202) 686-3833
Perrys
1811 Columbia Road NW
Washington, DC
(202) 234-6218
UPDATE:
Some great sushi finds from a couple of excellent foodie POTP readers. Thanks, Amanda and Foxtepper!
Murasaki
4620 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016-4602
Makoto
4822 MacArthur Boulevard NW
Makoto
4822 MacArthur Boulevard NW
Washington, DC
(202) 298-6866
Kyoto Sushi
201 Massachusetts Avenue NW
201 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC
(202) 546-2597
Osaka Restaurant
8855 Greenbelt Rd
Greenbelt, MD 20770
Greenbelt, MD 20770
(301) 552-1442
Yuraku
19773 Frederick Rd.
Germantown, MD 20876
(301) 515-7440
(301) 515-7440
4 comments:
Did you know that my dad knows how to make sushi? He actually has a decidedly jewish twist to some of the rolls he makes. One of them is lox and cream cheese in the center of the roll, we've dubbed it....wait for it....JEWSHI! (he also does a version of jewshi with avocado in addition to the lox and cream cheese, i dubbed it jewshi-ado.)
Ah....love sushi.... here are a few more of my favorites if you haven't tried them.
Murasaki
4620 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20016-4602
Makoto
4822 MacArthur Boulevard Northwest, Washington, DC - (202) 298-6866
and this one took me by surprise, but was decent:
Kyoto Sushi
201 Massachusetts Avenue Northeast, Washington, DC - (202) 546-2597
We have a great place in Greenbelt too - Osaka. Amazes me the amount of delicious sushi places that hide in strip malls!
and LOL @looking out of place in Japan. We should have beer and sushi one night and I'll reveal my living in Japan "top ten" stories :)
You forgot to mention your favorite sushi restaurant, Chopsticks Girl. I know it is in the burbs, but you should still give your favorite chefs a shout out: Yuraku,19773 Frederick Rd., Germantown, MD 20876
(301) 515-7440
www.yuraku.com
My friend's roommates swear by the sushi at Mei-Wah (Willard Ave. in Friendship Heights)
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