Sushi Restaurant Sign in “Assassination Classroom”

08/17/2017Posted inJapanese Kanji Blog
I love sushi! It's very hard to find decent quality sushi in USA...but you can enjoy nice and fresh sushi everywhere in Japan. Japanese Kanji Sign of the Sushi Restaurant In a popular animation "Assassination Classroom", I noticed a Japanese kanji sign on a sushi restaurant where Nagisa met his divorced father. The red kanji word is 元祖(ganso: originator), the black one is 江戸前(Edo-mae: front-of-Edo). Edo is old name of Tokyo. The image of sushi that we Japanese eat at restaurants came from this Edo-mae style. It's mainly Nigiri. (I've never seen Japanese people who make nigiri sushi at home! It's restaurant food!) And also the red square on the…

How to keep supermarket sushi’s rice soft

01/13/2017Posted inLife HacksNo Comments
Have you ever tried sushi at a supermarket outside of Japan? Unless it's a country of full time fish eaters, it's useless to complain about the quality of ingredients. But besides that, I am always frustrated with one thing. The rice is horribly HARD!! In this page, I will show you how to store sushi to keep the rice soft. Table of Contents What's the correct temperature for sushi? How to store pre-made sushi How to revive the rice after too much refrigeration What's the correct temperature for sushi? First of all, I need to make one point clear: Sushi is normally "room temperature" food! However, you find pre-made sushi…