Saturday, July 07, 2018

A study of Japanese food names

Sakae Sushi was having a promotion at RM3 per plate of conveyor belt sushi. I went with a friend, and here are some of the sushi we tried (I didn't take a photo of every plate).

aburi shiro maguro sushi (flame-seared white tuna sushi)

mentai shiro maguro sushi (mentai is the sauce on top of the white tuna sushi)

chinmi gunkan
Searching online, "chinmi" means "delicacy" and gunkan is sushi rolled in this way. This trio consists of chuka hotate gunkan (seasoned scallop gunkan), chuka kurage gunkan (seasoned jellyfish gunkan), and chuka wakame gunkan (seasoned seaweed gunkan). I like all three! ("chuka" seems to refer to vinegar, like "cuka" in Malay)

spicy chuka hotate maki (spicy seasoned scallop maki; maki being the rolling method. This one was actually quite spicy. I didn't like it that much because it wasn't that Japanese-y :P )

takoyaki
There were just a few small bits of octopus inside. Not that good.

our stack of ten sushi plates

The mentai shiro maguro sushi (the white tuna with sauce on top) was the best. Besides that, the trio of chinmi gunkan was good as well. I took a tako sushi (octopus on top), but the octopus was a little chewy. I actually started taking photos when my friend wanted to take a photo of the two white tuna sushi plates. Otherwise I wasn't even thinking of taking any photos.

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