Sushi is very predictable

Submitted by Theobviouschild11 t3_z6mvl7 in Showerthoughts

I was just thinking, compared to all other cuisines, when you go to any mid-range sushi restaurant you will be getting a mostly an indistinguishable and interchangeable dining experience. The food will taste and look nearly identical. Any other cuisine will have much more variation.

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Helios4242 t1_iy28yj8 wrote

oh not at all...

Anywhere with good access to fish will have quite the variety of CUTS. Buttery fish that melts in your mouth. Many sushi places miss out on that quality, though if you've never had it you might think they are all the same.

There's also an incredible array of different fish and fillings. Rice out and rice in. Sashimi, onigiri, etc.

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QutieLuvsQuails t1_iy2am0b wrote

Apparently you’ve been eating at some shit sushi places.

Also, how does this differ from: Italian, American, Mexican, Chinese?

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MysticalVibes_ t1_iy2ats3 wrote

cuz it’s plated in the same way each time u fkn sped smart cool strong man

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Autoganz t1_iy2c038 wrote

If you think all sushi tastes and looks the same, you haven’t tried enough sushi.

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trowaway27597428584 t1_iy2fzsd wrote

My father in law is a sushi chef. He has tried many times and I still hate everything I’ve ever tried from him or anyone else.

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PaulAchess t1_iy2o2jg wrote

Replying to QutieLuvsQuails (#725,098)

To be honest, you should compare a sushi place to a pizza place (or equivalent), not a country restaurant. Japanese cuisine is quite wide.

But the comparison exactly stands still with pizza places, tacos places, etc.

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Theobviouschild11 OP t1_iy38rf3 wrote

Replying to QutieLuvsQuails (#725,098)

I dunno, maybe my palate isn’t refined but I just feel like if you go to any average sushi restaurant (I’m not taking like a high end place or a garbage place) and you order standard items (not like specialty rolls or something) it’s gonna be fairly interchangeable - it’s raw fish and rice for the most part. The other quinones you mentioned have many more ingredients and involve more actual cooking so the food is more varied. If I get a chicken burrito at 5 different mid range Mexican spots it will be easier to differentiate than a salmon avocado roll at 5 different sushi spots.

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Only-Ad2447 t1_iy557ol wrote

Underrated variability in sushi is the quality of preparation of the rice.

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