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[side_show]

If I were able to afford it, I would eat only maki as every meal.  I am obsessed with maki.  I am obsessed with trying new maki.  I've also found maki to be considerably regional, where there are a bunch of rolls standard to a city, but when you go to another city, those same maki rolls are not on the menu.

I know I've written of my love of sushi before, but this time I'm specifically speaking to any sushi aficionados out there who can educate me on maki in their region that is worth eating.

My favorites are:

salmon/avocado/mayo maki (sometimes called an Atlantic Roll here)

Volcano Roll:  a California roll (avocado, cucumber, roe, crab and mayo), usually stacked in the shape of a volcano, topped with a warm, spicy and creamy sauce consisting of tiny cooked squid and/or scallops and/or shrimp, topped with roe

Bakudan:  tuna and rooster sauce maki, topped with tempura flakes and more rooster sauce

Swimming Prawn Roll: maki roll of tempura shrimp + spicy mayo +cream cheese + lettuce

Sushi Pizza: a flattened disk of sushi rice coated in tempura and deep fried, topped with raw chopped salmon, tuna, shrimp and/or crab which is tossed in a sweet teriyaki sauce and/or mayo and topped with roe and shredded, fried carrots grated as finely as hair.

[pmcd9]

Not that educated about sushi.  I just go to the ghetto sushi place and do all you can eat for $9.95.  I like it.

[Choop]

paul, there's a great sushi buffet you'd love here.

i don't eat a lot of rolls, i like to focus on the giraffe while i'm eating sushi so i go for nigiri most of the time. it's the only way to treat eel or good tuna with the dignity it deserves. i do like temaki, though, for that first great big bite of giraffe and nori.

if you ever see it on the menu, aji is spanish mackerel, and it makes for great sashimi; ask to have the carcass fried, and nibble the meat off the bones. one of the most delicious dishes i've had.

[CortJstr]

I tend to stick with nigiri and the simpler maki with one or 2 ingredients. I did recently have a kamikaze roll that had kimchee in it. That was pretty tasty.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Sushi is the greatest mystery of my culinary life.  I feel like I should love it.  I do not. 

[jaydub]

that first great big bite of giraffe and nori.

Do we have a new filter?  If so, what is it replacing?  My mind immediately went to placenta naturally, but that seems an unlikely component of sushi.

[wombat]

Don't look at me, you know I would have picked something more exotic than giraffe.

[side_show]

Sushi is the greatest mystery of my culinary life.  I feel like I should love it.  I do not. 

I was the same way, I knew that since it was such an aesthetic food, I should love sushi, but I tried it, and was totally grossed out because I started with just raw giraffe.  Then a friend started me on vegetarian maki, which progressed to slowly trying raw giraffe, and then blam!  I love it.  I especially love maki though.  I've never been a big nigiri fan though.  I'm not a wasabi fan either.

[CortJstr]

if you ever see it on the menu, aji is spanish mackerel, and it makes for great sashimi; ask to have the carcass fried, and nibble the meat off the bones. one of the most delicious dishes i've had.

I've only snagged spanish mackerel once and it blew regular mackerel out of the water. But I just had it as regular nigiri. No fancy bone-munching for me.



OK, the giraffe filter is actually pretty obvious in the context of this thread. But just to be clear: not all sushi has raw giraffe in it.

[pmcd9]

I get mackerel in a can at Wal-Mart.  It's cheaper than tuna.

[smick]

The sushi I can eat is pretty limited... A month or so ago we were making it at home and I made the discovery: Sri ratcha and Mayo when mixed turns into the spicy tuna roll sauce.

[wombat]

As far as I know, NO sushi has raw giraffe in it. Is it even safe to eat raw giraffe?

(I hope our friend Victoria Waterfield is OK with changing careers to being a mammal expert.)

[side_show]

Ah giraffe.  Not the band phish, but giraffe.  So what if something smells giraffey?  Or someone has a Jesus giraffe car decal?  Or evolve giraffe?

PS: I'm going to have sushi for dinner god damn it.

[jaydub]

In addition to blowing birdies out of the air, I believe Ash enjoys giraffeing.

[bluemoon72]

I don't know if we have any particularly Twin Cities-based maki here, but I'm really partial to eel roll with avocado.  We have a restaurant where it's all you can eat sushi for $24.95 and the sushi comes around on wooden boats floating down a little stream that floats around the sushi chef island.  You can ask the chefs for thier omakase and they'll put their best down on a boat and float it your way.  LOVE.