Oh the madness of posting on a daily basis...or at least attempting to anyway...
Day Ten: Monday:
Found out that someone added more content to my original letter to the dissatisfied ACF attendee, making the letter sound a lot more angrier than I intended, which led to a response something to the effect of sorry for making you angry, and that it makes that person sad to know that American culture is influencing Asian cultures (in a negative way).
Ugh, that's just what you get when you have a global village! Everything just starts coming together and blending and you get something totally different!
Some people just won't get it. =/ Oh well.
Day Eleven: Tuesday:
Had a lovely evening earlier tonight; dinner at Todo Sushi and Almond Milk Tea at Tea Station. So random fact about me and one of my eating habits: I very rarely dip my sushi in soy sauce (I also use very little wasabi and NO ginger). As I'm eating my sushi almost without soy sauce, a particular lecture from my marketing 370 class came to mind. It's something along the lines of how the Japanese did not try selling their food to the Americans. They realized that food was a very emotion/sentimental part of culture and was concerned that it would be rejected (and thus the people themselves). So they sold electronics--totally safe and did not have any emotional attachment (although I would beg to differ these days). It was the Americans who learned about sushi and fell in love with it and had it brought to the states. And I wondered, how much has this tradition been changed since being brought to the states and is this how it's supposed to be eaten? (And man, this sushi is REALLY yummy! Soy sauce is TOTALLY unnecessary)
According to what I could find, sushi started as the process of fermenting fish packed in rice. When the fish was ready, you only ate the fermented fish and tossed the rice, but with the introduction of vinegar, the fermentation process was shortened and eventually abandoned. Then Hanaya Yohei "decided" to make sushi a fast food item (to eat on the roadside or at the theater) and to prevent spoilage, he marinated the fish in soy sauce/vinegar served on rice balls.
Sushi was supposedly first introduced to the states shortly after WW2, but did not gain wide spread attention/love until the introduction of the California Roll in the 1970s. By the late 1980s, sushi's popularity blew up and the number of sushi bars quintupled (that's FIVE TIMES!!!) by the late 90s.
Crazy.
As to how to eat sushi, you're supposed to pick it up (either with chopsticks or hands), flip it over, dip the fish/topping in the soy sauce (because the rice will soak up too much soy sauce and damage the original flavoring), and then eat. Some say you're supposed to put the sushi in your mouth sideways so that the fish is on the left side of your mouth and the rice on the right side.
Huh. Now I know. But I still think soy sauce is unnecessary....hah.
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