Comments on: Restaurant Review: Sticky Rice http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/2008/08/08/restaurant-review-sticky-rice/ Just tidbits about money and finance. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:57:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: mapgirl http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/2008/08/08/restaurant-review-sticky-rice/comment-page-1/#comment-199425 mapgirl Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:46:18 +0000 http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/?p=1204#comment-199425 Moom, no, not all east Asians are lactose intolerant, but pretty much all my friends were by the time we turned 25. I drank lots of milk as a kid in the West, but eventually, a lot of human populations have to avoid lactose as they age. Cream cheese in sushi, it's an American thing I guess. I can't say it's all terrible, but it's kind of suspicious that every single fancy roll was like that. Moom, no, not all east Asians are lactose intolerant, but pretty much all my friends were by the time we turned 25. I drank lots of milk as a kid in the West, but eventually, a lot of human populations have to avoid lactose as they age.

Cream cheese in sushi, it’s an American thing I guess. I can’t say it’s all terrible, but it’s kind of suspicious that every single fancy roll was like that.

]]> By: moom http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/2008/08/08/restaurant-review-sticky-rice/comment-page-1/#comment-199318 moom Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:33:42 +0000 http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/?p=1204#comment-199318 I've never heard of cheese in Sushi!? Most restaurants here have washable chopsticks. Much nicer. Not all East Asians are lactose intolerant. Mongolians certainly couldn't be? Anyway my wife, Snork Maiden, certainly isn't. She's from Tianjin. My previous Chinese girlfriend wasn't either, but she had Manchu and maybe other non-indigenous ethnic groups in her background... I’ve never heard of cheese in Sushi!?

Most restaurants here have washable chopsticks. Much nicer.

Not all East Asians are lactose intolerant. Mongolians certainly couldn’t be? Anyway my wife, Snork Maiden, certainly isn’t. She’s from Tianjin. My previous Chinese girlfriend wasn’t either, but she had Manchu and maybe other non-indigenous ethnic groups in her background…

]]> By: mapgirl http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/2008/08/08/restaurant-review-sticky-rice/comment-page-1/#comment-199281 mapgirl Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:21:25 +0000 http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/?p=1204#comment-199281 Oh and another thing, you should read the article I wrote about amazing sushi. It's one of the good sushi links above. It's about a place in West Seattle. Website is sushiwhore.com. Inventive sushi is ok. But I want it to be super awesome without dairy. Oh and another thing, you should read the article I wrote about amazing sushi. It’s one of the good sushi links above. It’s about a place in West Seattle. Website is sushiwhore.com.

Inventive sushi is ok. But I want it to be super awesome without dairy.

]]> By: mapgirl http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/2008/08/08/restaurant-review-sticky-rice/comment-page-1/#comment-199280 mapgirl Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:19:46 +0000 http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/?p=1204#comment-199280 Oddly, I don't mind fake crab meat. Being near the Chesapeake and being a snob about blue crab, I rarely find any place that makes California Roll with real crab meat. But when they do, it's divine. Lump crab meat is expensive and labor intensive to pick so I do try to balance my snobbery with some realism. I'm ok with mediocre sushi, but it has to be cheap. This place right now rates a little above mediocre, but still not cheap enough to eat there once a week. Oddly, I don’t mind fake crab meat. Being near the Chesapeake and being a snob about blue crab, I rarely find any place that makes California Roll with real crab meat. But when they do, it’s divine. Lump crab meat is expensive and labor intensive to pick so I do try to balance my snobbery with some realism.

I’m ok with mediocre sushi, but it has to be cheap. This place right now rates a little above mediocre, but still not cheap enough to eat there once a week.

]]> By: Amphritrite http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/2008/08/08/restaurant-review-sticky-rice/comment-page-1/#comment-199279 Amphritrite Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:17:13 +0000 http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/?p=1204#comment-199279 Oh, and post script: I'm Scot/Irish background, so I definitely don't look Asian, but it's SUCH an insult when they offer me a fork over chopsticks (whether they're for Chinese or Japanese restaraunt!), just assuming that I can't use them. Oh, and post script: I’m Scot/Irish background, so I definitely don’t look Asian, but it’s SUCH an insult when they offer me a fork over chopsticks (whether they’re for Chinese or Japanese restaraunt!), just assuming that I can’t use them.

]]> By: Amphritrite http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/2008/08/08/restaurant-review-sticky-rice/comment-page-1/#comment-199277 Amphritrite Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:16:01 +0000 http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/?p=1204#comment-199277 Oh gosh, I'm glad I'm not the only sushi snob around! Unlike you, I'm exactly 0% Asian, but I'm very inclined toward the traditional sushi moreso than this new age flop food they have now. I used to live in DC, like you, but now live in Seattle, and it seems to be "chic" to eat sushi here. The problem is that it's not really sushi...it's...some sort of try-on fakey fish/rice roll. I don't like cream cheese in my sushi for the same reason you don't; I don't like them drowned in sauces that cover the taste of the fish, and I utterly detest the use of fake crab in my crab rolls, kthx. *SIGH* Oh gosh, I’m glad I’m not the only sushi snob around! Unlike you, I’m exactly 0% Asian, but I’m very inclined toward the traditional sushi moreso than this new age flop food they have now.

I used to live in DC, like you, but now live in Seattle, and it seems to be “chic” to eat sushi here. The problem is that it’s not really sushi…it’s…some sort of try-on fakey fish/rice roll.

I don’t like cream cheese in my sushi for the same reason you don’t; I don’t like them drowned in sauces that cover the taste of the fish, and I utterly detest the use of fake crab in my crab rolls, kthx.

*SIGH*

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