My town has one Sushi bar with all Japanese chefs. 3 others with Mexicans and white dudes rolling sushi. I have a favorite

I love sushi. One of the few meals I will gladly pay for instead of preparing myself. We used to go to a restaurant in Woodland Hills, Sushi Ichiban Kan. Unfortunately it closed during the pandemic and never reopened.

Mitz was our favorite chef. I would just have him make something special for us and he never disappointed.

This photo was taken after he returned from a trip back to Japan. He purchased a new sushi knife exactly like his previous one which you can see on the right. It was worn down from his continuous sharpening. Dang that was good sushi!

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Wow. That's a great pic, Craig.

I live in a high-density sushi restaurant area. As in, there are about 3 sushi places per block along Ventura Blvd (the San Fernando Valley's equivalent of Main St). So my neck of the LA woods is very blessed with good quality sushi.

The wasabi that is served at 99% of restaurants is not actually wasabi. Real wasabi had a great flavor.

I'm not a huge fan of the roe with the big eggs, ikura. I'm ok with the the roe of tiny eggs, tobiko.

Yeah, lots of sushi places are like that. I knew a white guy that your'd have been happy to have make your sushi, but he was unusual. He was super into traditional sushi and trained by a Japanese guy. COVID got him.

^ I'm sure he was good but I still don't want some round eye cuttin my fugu

LOL! I've never had fugu, and I don't know that my buddy would have made it since it does require lots of specialized training. I'm also sure that there are probably more than a couple of crappy Asian sushi chefs.

I like them all, gunkan, nigiri, maki, hand roll. Don't laugh, but when I just want a quick fix, I'll pick it up at my local 7-11.

I've gone to Kroger with my daughter to get sushi.

I love all sushi, but my favorite is Uni.
The best comes from Santa Barbara although I had some from Chile once and it was fantastic.
There are even a few times that I have had live uni, which is usually served in the shell with the spikes supporting it.
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Luckily, I don't live too far from Little Tokyo in Los Angeles

Uni is hard core sushi

Hand it twice. Both times it did a number on my tract.twice was enough.

Yup, I can't handle the texture.

Love sushi, our local place knows us by name. If you want to try sushi, you need to find a good sushi place. Normally bad sushi is BAD.

I agree that the California Roll is great starter sushi. If I’m getting rolls I prefer the simple ones, noting fried or covered with sauce. Yellowtail scallion, tuna, tuna avocado, tuna cucumber, Alaska, or a spicy tuna or yellowtail. For sushi or sashimi I prefer yellowtail (hamachi), tuna, fatty tuna, smoked salmon, or red snapper. Most sushi restaurants have a sampler platter you can get, it’s a nice way to try a variety of stuff. We actually have a great local joint, the fish is flown in fresh daily.

Unagi is my favorite.

When I lived in NYC, there was a Japanese place on Thompson St that focused on rice bowls. I went in there one day and sat at a high top table and ordered an Unagi Rice bowl. The only other people in there were Adam Yauch from the Beastie Boys and his wife and daughter who must have been 4. She knocked her rice boll with her arm off the table and it hit the ground and crashed and the rice flew up and stuck on my leg. Adam was so relaxed about it and I’ll never forget the look on the girls face. RIP Adam..every time I think about grilled eel, I think of that moment

mmmmm unagi maki

There are a few great sushi places in the Boston area but the best sushi I ever had was in San Francisco.

One local place has a special roll platter with tuna, toro, salmon and hamachi all in one very large diameter 3 bites to eat one piece roll. It is phenomenal. And the amount of fish is really something special. They have a special toro platter too but it's too much. Two or three pieces in and your palette is overwhelmed.

A place close to the movies I go to has a salmon roll with black tobiko and a sliver of jalepeno. Very tasty. And baby hamachi sashimi too.

Here’s a random good one for the travelers - One Flew South at ATL airport terminal E has excellent sushi.

I did an overnight in Tokyo and had sushi there, it was absolutely amazing.

No meat, no potatoes, no thanks.

It doesn't matter who cuts your Fugu, the chef has to taste it before serving it.
If he drops dead, don't eat it.