Sushi is described as foods that use rice seasoned with sweet rice-wine vinegar. It can be topped with other ingredients; the most common ingredient is raw fish, known as sashimi. Sushi can also be rolled or put into fried tofu pouches.
Kaiten-Zushi is a popular form of sushi restaurants in Japan. In these restaurants, sushi plates travel around your eating area on a conveyor belt. You pick your sushi right off the conveyor belt and eat it. Kaiten-Zushi restaurant are less expensive than regular sushi restaurants. Typically the color of the plate indicates the price of the sushi. For example, inexpensive sushi pieces might be on plain colored plates, where as more expensive pieces might be placed on gold colored plates.
Unfortunately, we no longer have any conveyor belt sushi restaurants in Edmonton. There used to be one on Bourbon Street in West Edmonton Mall called Sakura, but it's been closed for some time now. We do, however, have a variety of regular sushi restaurants to choose from. They include Kyoto, Tokyo Noodle Shop, Wasabi Sushi Take Out, Banzai, Japanese Village, Mikado, Yokozuna, Furosato, Kobe, Osaka and Shogun.
Kaiten-Zushi is a popular form of sushi restaurants in Japan. In these restaurants, sushi plates travel around your eating area on a conveyor belt. You pick your sushi right off the conveyor belt and eat it. Kaiten-Zushi restaurant are less expensive than regular sushi restaurants. Typically the color of the plate indicates the price of the sushi. For example, inexpensive sushi pieces might be on plain colored plates, where as more expensive pieces might be placed on gold colored plates.
Unfortunately, we no longer have any conveyor belt sushi restaurants in Edmonton. There used to be one on Bourbon Street in West Edmonton Mall called Sakura, but it's been closed for some time now. We do, however, have a variety of regular sushi restaurants to choose from. They include Kyoto, Tokyo Noodle Shop, Wasabi Sushi Take Out, Banzai, Japanese Village, Mikado, Yokozuna, Furosato, Kobe, Osaka and Shogun.
Sources include www.gojapan.about.com and www.wikipedia.org
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I find this post very interesting. Can you tell us if this conveyor belt type service is something they do in Japan or was it just started here in Edmonton?
ReplyDeleteHave you frequented any of Sushi Restaurants that you have list?
and is Sushi a common food from Japan or have they changed it to accomodate Canadian tastes.
The first conveyor belt restaurant, Mawaru Genroku Sushi, was opened in Osaka in 1958 by Yoshiaki Shirashi. It became so popular, that he turned his one restaurant into a chain of 240 restaurants through out Japan. As of 2001, there was almost 3000 conveyor belt restaurants in Japan with a market of 240 billion yen annually (wikipedia, 2010)
ReplyDeleteI have eaten at all the restaurants listed except for Osaka and Shogun. My first sushi experience was at Furosato on Whyte Avenue and it is still my favorite! Although it is a little bit more expensive, the food is excellent. My favorite dish is beef sashimi. It is thin slices of raw beef marinated in a ponzu sauce.
We have definitely modified sushi to accomodate Cananadian tastes. The California roll, Dynamite roll, Rainbow roll, Spider roll and Philadelphia roll are all examples of western sushi that would never find in Japan.
Source for the comment above
ReplyDeleteWikipedia Conveyor Belt Sushi(March 8, 2010), March 18, 2010, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conveyor_belt_sushi