Why You Eat Sushi With Your Hands Off Shoes | 5 Facts You Didn't Know About Sushi

[@LetsaskShogo]

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[@ambulocetusnatans]

I just saw you on Asayama Ichiden Ryu channel. I am so jealous because Seki Sensei seems like a very knowledgeable teacher and a nice guy. I hope you were able to make an English video about your visit.

[@ThRoyleKiwi2691]

This video was very interesting and educational for me, one of my cousins lives in Japan and I really hope to go over to see her one day and learn a bit of the culture while I’m there so these videos really help for knowing things when I eventually go over 😊

[@borttorbbq2556]

I would also Imagine That even short-term storage that the fatty tuna would also just absorb itself much salt and just becomes super salty on top of it's fattiness.

[@GaijinGoombah]

It's interesting because some sushi places in the US will have their sushi come pre-sauced, so it's kind of hard to eat it with your hands without making a mess.

[@allaboutperspective650]

Last week I eat for the first time in my life USA-inspired sushi, I don't want to insult anyone but it will also be the last time.

[@AdamOwenBrowning]

Heyhey, it's the culture bridge man! Been watching your stuff since I was, genuinely, a child. and yeaaah, sushi in (almost!) any nation outside of Japan is going to be questionable. Almost! I am sure some people have mastered it, but we have sushi conveyor restaurants here (UK) and... they don't quite match up. As for the sushi geta, I learnt this from a Yakuza game. (>.

[@LetsaskShogo]

I did not know about that!😮

[@motorola9956]

You mean post-sauced, meaning the shoyu or sauce had been applied to the sushi in advance?

[@splobby]

@@thegirlnobodyreallylikes4925 this could be taken out of context

[@suisiruy]

An old japanese friend of me told me that: eating sushi with hands is a way maintain the connection with the cook who made that sushi. He made it by hand, so it's a "From hand to hand" human connection act.

[@TheVirtualJenesis]

That's really wholesome!

[@andrewklang809]

Similarly to fatty tuna, lobsters used to be considered low-quality food, only eaten by poor people who live by the sea, and more popularly used as fertilizer. Once they could can and freeze food, it became a delicacy in inland cities. Today, it's one of the most expensive foods out there. Poor people usually can't even afford it.

[@happylobsterpatatas]

Fatty tuna in Japan and lobster in the USA used to be considered as garbage in the past and now luxury products. 😁

[@diogenes42069]

Yes but not just in the United States that practice started in Europe actually

[@KitsukiiPlays]

Wait, lobster as well? I didn’t know that 😮

[@telegramsam]

@@KitsukiiPlays Yes, lobster used to be seen as food for poor people, and was even served in prisons as something cheap!

[@Pduarte79]

And how probably caviar is common to russians, but luxury to us. Or watermelons to us and luxury in Japan.

[@TruthIsTheNewHate84]

@@KitsukiiPlays lobster was once served to slaves. It was low class food.

[@irkentrad]

I live in the USA, but I happen to be a sushi chef. Most of it is very different from traditional sushi, there's quite a few of them with some amount of sauce involved, and even some with cream cheese (called Philadelphia rolls, named after a brand of cream cheese, and is paired with avocado and smoked salmon). Most of our rolls are uramaki, too. One of my favorite uramaki rolls is spicy tuna, which uses ground tuna (mixed with shichimi, toasted sesame oil and sriracha), and avocado. The roll itself is topped with some extra bit of shichimi for garnish. And now that I'm thinking about it, I'll probably have one for dinner tonight.

[@AdamOwenBrowning]

Things like avocado in sushi confuses me. Sushi, invented in Canada, named after a place in the USA, using ingredients from Mexico. that's the california roll! :D thanks for keeping us fed well!

[@dlevi67]

Bon appetit!

[@telegramsam]

@@AdamOwenBrowning it's the united nations sushi XD

[@manjufrodo]

If the rice (Japanese short-grain) hasn't been cooked with kombu (kelp), and then seasoned with vinegar, sugar, and salt, the final product is not "sushi," but merely a rice roll.

[@choostopher5018]

Gari is definitely one of our favourite parts of eating Sushi and is a wonderful palette cleanser, admittedly though for quite some years we used to put it soy sauce and eat it along with the Sushi.

[@ordi333]

Man I just arrived in Kyoto and your videos help me so much you cannot imagine.

[@LetsaskShogo]

I really hope you enjoy Kyoto😍

[@ordi333]

@@LetsaskShogo I fell in love with the city in two days only ^^

[@Steve-ve6sc]

I am Japanese, and I have never watched your video, but I watched popped up your video by chance. I subscribe you for learning English, and I hope your video will spread Japanese favorable things to the world.

[@BadDadio]

Shogo is an excellent representative for Japan. I’ve learned a lot from him over the years.

[@toocutepuppies6535]

Well, now I know what I'm having for lunch! 😛 I could eat sushi all day, every day! 😋 Thanks for the menu planning advice!

[@-.TheLorax.-]

Love Your videos❤

[@theperceptor9287]

Thanks Shogo for this video. Very informative about sushi 🍣🍤, how it started and what it has evolved into in the Japanese culture. Love your videos always and take care.

[@lukastojsic411]

This is so interesting Shogo-san🍣🍣🍱

[@LetsaskShogo]

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[@CL_CORTES]

Wow.. I learned ALOT about sushi in this video. Thank you Shogo-san!

[@nazarnovitsky9868]

Perfect ! Thank you very much , Shogo ! These facts are quite interesting 🤔🙂 !

[@AdamOwenBrowning]

the RGG Studios: Judgement series will teach you about tea being the "finisher" to a meal and about the sushi geta. I love those games, unrelated... the 見参! entry has a few kanji reading practice substories, where you get exp rewards for selecting the correct reading.

[@monicab204]

I do want some sushi now!!❤️ I wish I liked gari, but it is not my favorite. I love wasabi though.

[@MadAzn53]

I like that tip about using gari to add soy sauce to some sushi. Will have to try that the next time we go.

[@21quynhnhunguyenthi65]

I haven't come to Japan and therefore haven't got the chance to eat Sushi. Maybe I should use this time to learn more about etiquettes when eating 🍣 before travelling

[@LaNoir.]

I really like the sum-up at the end, makes you resume what you just watched and keep it in mind easier

[@LetsaskShogo]

Some people have told me that it’s useless, so I’m really glad you say so😊

[@LaNoir.]

@@LetsaskShogo Absolutely not, I subscribed to your channel to learn more about traditional life in Japan and your topics are always interesting, informative and easy to understand. For people just binging content, recurrences might be a nuisance, bur for those who come to learn, your videos are a great source of knowledge.

[@shiroikiba0102]

Well, I think I'll start eating the ginger from here on when eating sushi. Thank you for the information Shogo.

[@thud93factory51]

I am watching this while eating Sushi, Shogo-san in October month(Ju-gatsu) Sushi's taste the best. I have always felt Autumn is the perfect season for eating Sushi .

[@stephenaitcheson6626]

Thanks for the info Shogo, whenever I have sushi now , I make sure to have tons of Gari on hand🍣 it's completely changed the Sushi game for me.

[@fafalina56]

It's nice to know I instinctively have been using gari correctly. I keep a jar in my refrigerator, and will nibble a piece or two just because I like the taste so much.

[@Simon_Electric]

I just so happen to be eating sushi for lunch and this came up in my recommended videos . 😁

[@ambulocetusnatans]

Very interesting. I once worked in a Japanese restaurant, and I didn't even know all of that.

[@robertb.seddon1687]

Very interesting! Domo!😎🤙🕉

[@Krisvee1]

Awesome video! I love sushi! It's my favorite food in the world! I've yet to taste true authentic Japanese sushi. Hopefully one day, now that Japan's opening back up, when I visit, I'll be able to go a nice sushi restaurant! Any recommendations of which sushi restaurant to go to?

[@SunnyPea]

This video is making me crave sushi! 🤤

[@JT-yj3tr]

@edmg7 I agree with you. When I went to visit Japan first time, I was interested in trying everything else except sushi. Wagyu was on my list as no.1 😅

[@micheller3251]

now I have a sushi craving, thanks shogo 😂

[@kimemerson5732]

I just cannot put so much food into my mouth at one time!!!

[@LetsaskShogo]

You can ask for less rice in that case! It’s a rule to eat it in one bite…😓

[@lindabennett9068]

"McSushi" it could catch on 🤣🤣🤣

[@keithtorgersen9664]

Shogo, I was thinking of something a little while ago. Where does the superstition come from in Japanese culture that if you sneeze it means someone is talking about you?

[@lexiharding5498]

Curious - What do you do with Soy on Maki rolls? Do you dip the maki in sideways so the soy goes on the nori? Or is Sushi in restaurants mostly nigiri so this isn't a problem in Japan so much?

[@TruthIsTheNewHate84]

There are only 2 foods on earth that i could eat for the rest of my life and not miss any other foods. Sushi and italian margarita pizza. Those are the 2 best foods on the planet and nobody can convince me otherwise.

[@Serai3]

"Fatty tuna was garbage." This happens with fish. They go in and out of style. Another example is what we now call "Chilean sea bass" - it was considered garbage fish fifty years ago. It became chic in the 80's, but before that nobody wanted it. Go figure. 😆

[@lindabennett9068]

Mmm. Cheesy sushi 🍣 😋 😅😂

[@Nannerchan]

I have been to Samurai Experience. Maybe I have seen you.

[@mattnobrega6621]

I looooove sushi. Now that I'm a type 1 diabetic( no more sushi rice 😮‍💨), I can only have sashimi which is great too because I love it all 😍👍

[@WilliamHungVEVO]

All these years of eating ikura sushi and I never thought to use the gari as a brush 😂

[@exploshaun]

I always wondered how effective gari and wasabi is for killing bacteria to prevent food poisoning.

[@Miruzilla]

I was in Japan for 3 weeks in 2018. And not ONCE did I eat Sushi there, because my travel companion didn't fancy fish and was more interested in Ramen. Until this Day, I regret it so much ; v ; We do have an Asia Restaurant that makes delicious Sushi but it would have been so much better eating Sushi in Japan , haaaaah...the pain haha

[@greyfox3954]

When you watched all you need about sushi from dozens of resources long time ago, but still watch a video just to be sure..

[@darthzayexeet3653]

Honestly, why is Sushi not a street food anymore? 🤔 I would love to see like an Edō Style food stand in Japan, where you can just grab a large piece (with your hands) and go.

[@justagirl6761]

Can I put the pickled ginger on the sushi like wasabi and eat it that way or is it not appropriate?

[@LetsaskShogo]

I’ve never heard of anyone doing that…🤔

[@justagirl6761]

@@LetsaskShogo I understand..Well I tried it once and I loved it because I love both sour and spicy things, and it being on the plate led me to think it was a garnish:)). So I'm guessing if I ever vizit Japan I shouldn't do that.😅 Thanks

[@NuevaDelJapon]

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[@MikStorer]

The feet also make it easy to pick up for the server. Fatty foods not being liked. I wonder when whale became popular. Great video

[@kdefensemartialarts8097]

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[@IKEMENOsakaman]

I think Shogo-san is so IKEMEN.

[@LetsaskShogo]

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[@darthzayexeet3653]

What if you want to taste more soy sauce? Do you have to just dunk the tip in or can you slather the whole fish with it?

[@S1L3NTG4M3R]

:) l see what you did there.. Thanks

[@naruomi9477]

Love sushu

[@Theorof]

I really like the gari by itself, and often ask for extra.

[@PiratePawsLive]

I always leave the Gari on the plate, I tried several times to eat it but I get sick from the taste. Can't stand Ginger either. Hope this isn't considered rude.

[@illiengalene2285]

What is the order in that the type of sushi were invented?

[@marymarney3843]

Could you please explain the difference between sushi and sushimi (I don't know if I spelled that right or not).

[@billydabomb8669]

Hey Shogo, is it true that Salmon Sushi wasn't invented by Japanese but a Norwegian named Bjørn? I heard that Salmon isn't popular in Japan.

[@LetsaskShogo]

I’m not too sure where it was invented, but it is absolutely very very popular in Japan😋

[@darkfent]

Wow...4 hg model kits for a piece

[@nimbly1693]

Crab in America for a long time was considered undesirable as food and was often fed to slaves.

[@Reap682]

That "Umai" reminded me of Kyōjurō Rengoku from Demon Slayer

[@edmg7]

"The number 1 dish you want to eat in Japan is Sushi, right?" Actually Shabu Shabu, Okinomiyaki, and Jajamen are higher on my list of foods I want to try if I ever visit Japan.

[@LetsaskShogo]

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[@WhiskeyThieves]

A Japanese sushi master on KZbin said not to use gari as a soy sauce brush.

[@ShoGono22]

Shogo I have a question please answer this is there an actually thing called the "Reverse Blade" before? I got this question from Samurai X and rurouni Kenshin Love your vids 😁😁

[@akale2620]

No. He already made this video. The answer is no.

[@ShoGono22]

@@akale2620 I just saw the vid yeah thanks for letting me know

[@PaleHorseShabuShabu]

I should start a tea company called Ugly Geisha Tea.

[@asunachan9999]

My mouth was watering after watching this. 🤤💦❤️🇵🇭

[@Sonchikas1]

I heard that it was only apopriate for men to eat sushi with hands because women are supposed to serve the guests on the table and couldn't touch other people's food. Glad to know that it wasn't the case.

[@Andyisafigurecolletor]

Umai

[@mrefish289]

Shogo, what do Japanese people generally think of cracking one's knuckles?

[@RadenWA]

And then there’s that thing about eating sushi off someone’s body but we don’t talk about that 😏

[@Lúv-5300]

why you eat sushi with your hands off shoes shogo was that title intentional

[@nerdstudent8852]

Remember guys eating sushi using hands is allowed, but eating ramen using hands is not allowed 👍

[@0maj0hns0n3]

I'd like to know the origin of sushi. Why did people start eating raw fish?

[@allaboutperspective650]

40+ years ago I was in Japan visiting a restaurant by myself. I didn't know what it was called but it looked so tasty so I ordered the same food as some other people had. Many years later I learned that it was called sushi. Last week I tried the first time USA-inspired sushi, I will never order it again.

[@LovEyDuBB]

But why if I want to eat sushi off of somebody’s dirty shoes?

[@LetsaskShogo]

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[@usagiynami9937]

10.0

[@ericm215]

So are people sushi cause we are on plates

[@gammerguy7798]

To me

[@MelkorPT]

Adjusting the playback speed to 2X makes you sound like a chipmunk, what gives?!

[@kenshuseibutkeskul5261]

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[@dadaniel2k11]

Fatty tuna became expensive because it's rarer compared to the whole body of the fish. Just like lobster. Lobster was a poor people's food elevated to elitism. (just as sushi was but don't tell anyone)